—peace and blessings be upon him—said:

“When Quraysh denounced me as a liar, I stood in the Hijr, and Allah brought the Temple of Jerusalem before my very eyes. I then began to describe to them its features while I was looking at it.”

Muslim likewise records, on the authority of Abū Hurayrah—may Allah be pleased with him—that the Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—said:

“I was in the Hijr while Quraysh were interrogating me about my Night Journey. They asked me about details of the Temple in Jerusalem which I had not firmly retained, and I was overcome by an anguish the like of which I had never known. Then Allah raised it before me so that I could see it, and there was nothing they inquired about except that I informed them of it.”

Furthermore, the bodily ascent of a human being to the heavens is confirmed in the case of the Messiah