al-Hamra and on Mount Arafat.”

Concerning the words of Allah Most High, “Then, when He calls you with a single call from the earth, you will come forth,” Abū al-Hasan ʿAlī ibn Ahmad al-Wāhidī related that this would be at Isrāfīl’s call from the Rock of Jerusalem, when he blows the Trumpet at Allah’s command for the resurrection after death.

Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, may Allah be pleased with him, reported that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “On the night I was taken to Jerusalem, I prayed to the west of the Rock.”

ʿAbd Allāh ibn Salām said: “Whoever prays a thousand rakʿahs in Jerusalem, to the right and left of the Rock, will enter Paradise before his death” (meaning that he will see it in his dreams). Al-Hawshī said: “When you enter the Rock, keep it on your right.” Kaʿb said: “Whoever comes to Jerusalem, prays there to the right and left of the Rock, and supplicates will emerge free of sin, as on the day his mother bore him. If he asks Allah Most High for martyrdom, He will grant it to him.”

Al-Mushriq ibn al-Marjā said: “It is recommended that whoever enters the Rock should keep it