al-Hijjah are given precedence (1) on account of their days, since they include the Day of Sacrifice, the Day of ‘Arafah, and the Day of Tarwiyah.
As for the second question (2), Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah—may Allah sanctify his soul—was asked about a man who said, “The night of the Prophet’s Night Journey is superior to the Night of Decree,” while another said, “Rather, the Night of Decree is superior.” Which of them was correct?
He replied: “Praise be to Allah. As for the person who says that the night of the Night Journey is superior to the Night of Decree: if he means that the night on which the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was taken on the Night Journey, and its anniversary each year, are superior for the nation of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) to the Night of Decree, such that praying through that night and supplicating during it are better than doing so on the Night of Decree, then this is false. No Muslim has ever said this, and its falsity is a matter of necessary knowledge in Islam. This would be so even if the exact night of the Night Journey were known. How much more so, then, when no established evidence identifies its month, its ten-day period, or its particular night? Rather, the reports concerning this are disconnected, and none establishes it with certainty. Nor is it prescribed for Muslims to single out the night which