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General information
The changing the Qiblah from ....... to .......?
From Jerusalem to the Kaaba In which year of Muhammad’s message
Did the changing of the Qiblah occur?
At noon on Tuesday, the middle of the month of Shaban, in the first year of the blessed Prophet’s migration, that is, thirteen years after the Prophet’s mission, the qiblah of the Muslims shifted from the Holy House to the Holy Kaaba.
The Scientists' quotes
Imam Abi Hatem
The Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, liked to face the Kaaba, so God revealed the verse to him, and he turned his face toward the Kaaba. This was mentioned by Ibn Kathir, citing
Mujahid, Al-Dahhak, Al-Suddi, and Qatada
Another matter they mentioned is: the command to head to the Kaaba; Until the Jews protest that the Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, agreed with them in their qiblah, and he is about to agree with them in their religion.
What did the Jews do about changing the qiblah?
It happened that God Almighty ordered His Prophet - may God bless him and grant him peace - to face Jerusalem in prayer, and he remained in that position for about a year and a half in Medina.
Then God diverted him from this qiblah to facing the Kaaba, and the Jews said: Muhammad longed for his father’s country in Mecca, and he wanted to please his people, the Quraysh, and if he had remained steadfast in our qiblah, we would have hoped that he would be the Prophet, which will come at the end of time, and from here their hope of annexing Muhammad - may God bless him and grant him peace - was cut off, so they declared their hostility towards him, and he had clashes with them and stories mentioned in history books,
What is the name of the mosque in which the qiblah was turned?
The place where the qiblah was changed is Beni Salem Mosque
Some historical information about the Banu Salamah Mosque (the Mosque of the Two Qibla)
the Mosque of the Two Qibla is considered one of the mosques in which the Messenger of God - may God bless him and grant him peace - prayed, It is called the Bani Salama Mosque, and sources mention that Bani Sawad bin Ghanam bin Ka’b, from the Bani Salamah Khazraj tribe, were the ones who established it during the reign of the Messenger of God - may God bless him and grant him peace, It was later rebuilt by the governor of Medina, Omar bin Abdul Aziz, in the year (87 AH - 706 AD), and renewed by Al-Shuja’i Shaheen Al-Jamali in the year 893 AH, and during the reign of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, the architecture of the mosque was repaired in the year (950 AH - 1943 AD).It was built in the past and was made up of the building materials of the time, which were mud, fronds, and palm trunks. Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Hujaili, professor of history and researcher in the history of Medina, says: about the mosque and its importance: “The Qiblatain Mosque is one of the oldest mosques in the city. It was built since the migration of the Prophet - may God bless him and grant him peace - when he visited one of the Ansar tribes.”
Did the Jews choose Jerusalem as their qibla by God Almighty?
The Children of Jerusalem did not make it a qibla according to a revelation from God, but rather by choice, according to what the investigators mention, the aforementioned hadith indicates that the rock they are facing was not commanded by God in particular, as the true qiblah is the first house established for the people in Mecca.
Abu Dawud narrated in Al-Nasikh and Al-Mansukh on the authority of Khalid bin Yazid bin Muawiyah, who said: The Jews did not find the Qiblah in the Torah, but the Ark of Tranquility was on the rock, When God was angry with the children of Israel, He exalted them, and their prayer to the rock was based on their advice.
. And in Al-Baghawi when interpreting the Almighty’s saying (And make your homes quibla) Ibn Jurayj narrated on the authority of Ibn Abbas - may God be pleased with them both - that he said: The Kaaba was the qibla of Moses and those with him, and Al-Zamakhshari and Al-Baydawi agreed with it.
Al-Nasafi said in his interpretation of this verse: Make your houses mosques facing the Qiblah, which is the Kaaba, and Moses and those with him used to pray towards the Kaaba,
To which qibla did Muslims pray in Mecca before the qibla to the Sacred House was imposed?
It was said: There was no specific qiblah, as all directions are qiblah according to what some have understood from the Almighty’s saying:
(And to Allah belongs the East and the West, so wherever you turn, there is the Face of Allah) (Surat Al-Baqarah: 115)
Even if there is a tendency to turn to the Kaaba because it is the Holy House for the Arabs, He is the trace of our master Abraham, to whom God said in one of the Meccan surahs: (Then We revealed to you, “Follow the religion of Abraham, He turns away from polytheism” (Surat An-Nahl: 123), according to what the general meaning of the word indicates.
As the biography narrated, the Prophet - may God bless him and grant him peace - chose to worship in the cave of Hira; Because it overlooks the Kaaba. And it was said: The qibla of Muslims in Mecca was the Kaaba first, according to the Almighty’s saying: (And We did not make the qiblah that you were facing) (Surat Al-Baqarah: 143) that is, We moved you in Medina from Jerusalem to the Kaaba, which is the qibla that you were facing before, This stipulated that the qibla in Mecca was the Kaaba, but that was for a period.
After the Prophet arrived in Medina: Was his prayer facing Jerusalem or the Kaaba?
Which most scholars agreed with because it was revelation
As narrated by Ibn Jarir al-Tabari on the authority of Ibn Abbas, he said: When the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, migrated to Medina and the Jews, most of them face the Holy House. God Almighty commanded them to face the Holy House. The Jews were happy because they thought that he had received him following their example, Although it was at the command of his Lord, he faced it for seventeen months, and he loved to face the Qiblah of Abraham. Al-Tabari also narrated on the authority of Ibn Abbas, who said: The Prophet loved to turn to the Kaaba, and he would pray to his Lord (As Gabriel advised this when he said to him: I wish that God would turn my face away from the qiblah of the Jews, so Gabriel said to him: I am only a servant, so call upon your Lord and ask Him.” He was looking at the sky and it descended, (We may see the turning of your face in the sky, so We will certainly give you a direction that you will be pleased with, so turn your face towards the Sacred Mosque and wherever you are, turn your faces towards it” (Surat Al-Baqarah: 144) this is what the public is like, as Al-Qurtubi said
What is the prayer that the Prophet - may God bless him and grant him peace - prayed with two qublas?
The Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, visited Umm Bishr bin Ma’rur after Bishr’s death, when the time for the noon prayer came, he led his companions in prayer with two rak’ahs, then he was ordered to turn to the qiblah, so he turned to bow for the third rak’ah, this mosque was called the Mosque of the Two Qibla. Because the conversion was revealed in it first. It was in Bani Salamah - with a kasra on the lam in Al-Zarqani’s explanation of Al-Mawahib, and it was seized in an interpretation.
Some of them said that prayer is Alasr, citing as evidence the narration of Al-Baraa bin Azib in Al-Bukhari in the Book of Faith: The Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, prayed the first prayer he prayed, the afternoon prayer, that is, heading to the Kaaba, but this indicates that she prayed with two qiblahs, and the most likely thing is that she prayed with one qiblah, which is the Kaaba, It was the first complete prayer after turning to the Kaaba, and the claim that the noon prayer was performed with two qiblahs remains uncontested, Ibn Hajar said in the Book of Faith The investigation is that the first prayer he prayed in Banu Salamah was when Bishr ibn al-Baraa ibn Ma’rur died It is noon, and the first prayer he prayed in the Prophet’s Mosque with the new qibla was the afternoon prayer.
Who is the man who conveyed the news to the Muslims turning the qiblah while they were praying?
His name was said
Abbad bin Bishr bin Qayzi
His name was said to be A
Abbad bin Nahik
The people he told were the Banu Haritha and they were praying the afternoon prayer, and based on the saying that the prayer that the Messenger was praying and he was converted into it was the afternoon prayer, the news of it could be quickly transmitted to a group of others, the Banu Haritha, who were still praying.
The Qur’an that brought the story of turning the qiblah
۞ سَيَقُولُ السُّفَهَاءُ مِنَ النَّاسِ مَا وَلَّاهُمْ عَن قِبْلَتِهِمُ الَّتِي كَانُوا عَلَيْهَا ۚ قُل لِّلَّهِ الْمَشْرِقُ وَالْمَغْرِبُ ۚ يَهْدِي مَن يَشَاءُ إِلَىٰ صِرَاطٍ مُّسْتَقِيمٍ (142) وَكَذَٰلِكَ جَعَلْنَاكُمْ أُمَّةً وَسَطًا لِّتَكُونُوا شُهَدَاءَ عَلَى النَّاسِ وَيَكُونَ الرَّسُولُ عَلَيْكُمْ شَهِيدًا ۗ وَمَا جَعَلْنَا الْقِبْلَةَ الَّتِي كُنتَ عَلَيْهَا إِلَّا لِنَعْلَمَ مَن يَتَّبِعُ الرَّسُولَ مِمَّن يَنقَلِبُ عَلَىٰ عَقِبَيْهِ ۚ وَإِن كَانَتْ لَكَبِيرَةً إِلَّا عَلَى الَّذِينَ هَدَى اللَّهُ ۗ وَمَا كَانَ اللَّهُ لِيُضِيعَ إِيمَانَكُمْ ۚ إِنَّ اللَّهَ بِالنَّاسِ لَرَءُوفٌ رَّحِيمٌ (143) قَدْ نَرَىٰ تَقَلُّبَ وَجْهِكَ فِي السَّمَاءِ ۖ فَلَنُوَلِّيَنَّكَ قِبْلَةً تَرْضَاهَا ۚ فَوَلِّ وَجْهَكَ شَطْرَ الْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرَامِ ۚ وَحَيْثُ مَا كُنتُمْ فَوَلُّوا وُجُوهَكُمْ شَطْرَهُ ۗ وَإِنَّ الَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْكِتَابَ لَيَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّهُ الْحَقُّ مِن رَّبِّهِمْ ۗ وَمَا اللَّهُ بِغَافِلٍ عَمَّا يَعْمَلُونَ (144)
۞ The foolish people will say, “What has turned them away from their Qiblah, which they used to follow. Say, “To God belongs the East and the West, He guides whom He wills to a straight path (142) and thus We have made you a moderate nation that you may be witnesses over the people, and the Messenger will be a witness over you. And We have not made the qiblah that you used to face, except that We may know who follows the Messenger from those who turn on his heels, even if it is a great, except for those whom God has guided, and God would not waste your faith. Indeed, God is Most Compassionate and Merciful to people. (143) We may see the turning of your face in the sky, so We will certainly give you a qiblah that will please you, so turn your face towards the Sacred Mosque, and wherever you are, turn your faces towards it, and those who were given the Book know that it is the truth from their Lord, and God is not unaware of what they do (144)
The honorable hadiths that brought for the story of changing the qiblah
It is proven in the two Sahihs on the authority of Anas
The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, used to pray towards Jerusalem, Then it was revealed: “We see the turning of your face in the sky, so, We will turn you to a direction that pleases you, so turn your face toward the Sacred Mosque.} [Al-Baqarah: 144], Then a man from Banu Salamah passed by while they were kneeling in the dawn prayer, they had prayed a rak'ah, so he called out: Indeed, the qiblah has turned, so they turned as they were towards the qiblah.
Ahmed bin Hanbal narrated on the authority of Mrs. Aisha, may God be pleased with her, The Prophet - may God bless him and grant him peace - said: “The Jews do not envy us for anything as they envy us for Friday, to which God guided us and they strayed from it, and to the Qiblah to which God guided us to it and they went astray from it, and according to our saying, behind the Imam, Amen, and according to the Jewish habit of arrogance and selfishness stemming from the well-known unbridled racism, In them they loved to have every glory, whether in religious or worldly glory, just as God placed prophets in them and made them kings. Allah says, ((And when Moses said to his people, “O my people, remember the blessings of God upon you when He placed prophets among you, and He made you kings and gave you what He had not given to anyone else...))
The lessons learned from shifting the Qibla
1 - Choosing Al-Aqsa Mosque initially to be a qibla for Muslims: a warning to the Messenger that Al-Aqsa Mosque has its status and holiness, so this status and holiness must be preserved for it.
2 - It contains a reference to the transfer of leadership and imamate in religion from the Children of Israel, to those whose homeland was the Levant and Jerusalem, to the Arabs whose homeland was Hijaz, The Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, is one of the descendants of Ishmael, His father Abraham - peace be upon them - participated in building the house, unlike the prophets of the Children of Israel, they are descendants of Isaac - peace be upon him.
3 - The rituals of Hajj are connected to the Sacred House and the Holy Kaaba, so it is appropriate for the prayer to go to the House, In which and around which rituals are performed.
4 - Al-Qurtubi said: He ordered it to be done facing the Kaaba from one who turns on his heels, meaning from one who apostatizes from his religion because when the Qiblah was turned, some Muslims turned away, and some people became hypocrites, that is why he said: Even if it is big, that is: converting it.
5 - (And for every nation We have made a ritual to mention the name of God, For what He has provided for them of livestock.) every nation has a sacred place in which it can worship with all kinds of worship like prayer, Hajj, sacrifice, etc.
6 - God Almighty said ((Indeed, the first House established for mankind was the one in Mecca; blessed and a guidance for the worlds)) the narratives say that it was placed during the days of Adam, peace be upon him, and the prophets used to perform Hajj to it, the role of Abraham - peace be upon him - was to highlight his outdated features, or it was swept away by floods, as the expression is understood In the Almighty’s saying: (And when Abraham raised the foundations of the House and Ishmael) (Surat Al-Baqarah: 127) and the Almighty said: (And when We made for Abraham a place for the House) (Surat Al-Hajj: 26) That is, the house that was previously known in history, or that will be built after that, is permissible.
6 - A warning to the Messenger not to covet the faith of the Jews.
7 - Returning the call to its origin, which is its universality based on the foundations of Abraham, without distinction between the sons of Isaac “the Jews” and the sons of Ishmael “the Arabs” (Abraham was neither a Jew nor a Christian لاut he turned away from polytheism and was a Muslim, and he was not of the polytheists.” (Surat Al Imran: 67)
8 - Insinuating that Mecca must return to Islam, as it is the qibla of Muslims, and that its people should strive until the house submits to the Muslims, and it is good news of the victory of the Messenger over the Quraysh, And extracting the House from them, to purify it from idols and make the religion pure for God.
9 - The believers’ success in the exam, and they obeyed God’s command when He directed them to Jerusalem, when he directed them to the Sacred House, in all of that their approach was: We hear and we obey, the Jews, polytheists, and hypocrites failed the test. When the Jews faced their Qiblah, they did not follow him and believe in him.
When he faced the Sacred Mosque, they said: He left the qibla of the prophets, and they knew in their books that the Kaaba is the qibla of Muslims but they denied it.
10 - The close connection between the two qiblahs and the two mosques. Al-Aqsa Mosque is the first qibla and the third of the Two Holy Mosques.
11 - Answering the supplication of the father of the prophets, Abraham - peace be upon him - He called upon Al-Khalil, peace be upon him, by saying: “So make the hearts of the people yearn toward them.” [Ibrahim: 37] God Almighty said: And when We made the House a reward for the people and secure.” [Al-Baqarah: 125].