Al-Kafi 5708

Translation

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from one of our companions, from Al-Hassan Bin Ali Bin Abu Hamza, from Abu Baseer, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^asws, said, ‘I heard him^asws saying: ‘The best of the Masjids is Masjid of Al-Kufa. A thousand Prophets^as have prayed <span class="iTxt">Salāt</span> in it, and a thousand succesors^as, and from it did the oven of Noah^as burst out, and therein was the ship of Noah^as built. On its right is the Pleasure of Allah^azwj, and in its middle is a garden from the Gardens of the Paradise, and its left flanis disliked’. So I said to Abu Baseer, ‘What did he^asws mean by his^asws word: ‘Disliked’?’ He said, ‘He^asws meant the house of the Sultan (ruling authority), and Amir Al-Momineen^asws had stood at the door of the Masjid, then he^asws shot with his^asws arrow, and it fell in a place of the date-sellers. So he^asws was saying: ‘That is from the Masjid (part of its area) ’. And he^asws was saying: ‘And there has been reduced from the foundation of the Masjid the like of what was reduced regarding its four corners’.

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