other than these. Yet none of them contains this account, despite the considerable interest and ample incentive to record it accurately, had it any basis. This interpretation makes the falsity of this account certain.

Moreover, it includes his words, “Walking to Friday prayers and waiting for the next prayer after completing one.” Yet the Ascension took place in Mecca, and the five daily prayers were prescribed that night; there was as yet no Friday prayer. For it is established in the authentic hadith collection, on the authority of Ibn ‘Abbās, that the first Friday prayer held in Islam after the Friday prayer in Medina was held in Bahrain, at Juwāthā, a village in Bahrain. This is a fact established by mass transmission and undisputed among the scholars.

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