Is the Prayer in Every Masjid Within the Confines of the Ḥaram Equal to One Hundred Thousand Prayers?

Question:

Is the prayer in every masjid within the confines of the Ḥaram equal to one hundred thousand prayers outside of it?

Answer:

“What is correct is that it is not, because it has come in some narrations: ‘The Masjid of the Kaʿbah,’[1] and these narrations restrict the unrestricted narrations, because [what is meant by] the unrestricted goes back to the restricted.

A narration has indeed come restricting it to ‘The Masjid of the Kaʿbah,’ which means that in it [alone] is [the reward of] one hundred thousand prayers.

However, one is not deprived of an increase [in reward] in the other masājid within the confines of the Ḥaram.

Indeed, when Allāh’s Messenger ﷺ was outside the Ḥaram during the Treaty of Ḥudaybiyyah, he would leave and enter the Ḥaram when the time came for the prayer, thus showing the virtue of prayer in the Ḥaram of Makkah, whether it is in ‘The House’ itself, the other masājid, or a piece of land in the Ḥaram.

Indeed, Allāh’s Messenger ﷺ sought it out when the time for the prayer came at Ḥudaybiyyah.

As for the one hundred thousand, it is in the Masjid of the Kaʿbah.

Those [other masājid within the boundaries of the Ḥaram] contain extra [reward], but not like the Masjid of the Kaʿbah.”

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Footnote:

[1] Muslim (1396), al-Nasāʾī (691), and Aḥmad (26826).

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Answered by: Shaykh Abū Bilāl al-Ḥaḍramī (May Allāh preserve him)

Source : https://t.me/abubilalhami/8947

Translated by: Abū Sufyān Sāmī ibn Daniel al-Ghānī