Al-ʿAwfī likewise transmitted this explanation on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbās, Mujāhid, ʿIkrimah, al-Rabīʿ ibn Anas, al-Suddī, and many others.

Qatādah said: “We have been informed that the Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—once asked his Companions, ‘Do you know what the Frequented House (al-Bayt al-Maʿmūr) is?’ They replied, ‘Allah and His Messenger know best.’ He said, ‘It is a mosque in heaven directly over the Kaʿbah; were it to fall, it would fall upon it. Each day seventy thousand angels pray there; once they leave, they never return—this is the last duty assigned to them.’”

Al-Ḍaḥḥāk asserted that the Frequented House is maintained by a band of angels called “the jinn,” a clan stemming from Iblīs—may Allah curse him—meaning that its caretakers and attendants come from among them. Allah knows best.

Others have held that in every heaven there is a house which its angels inhabit for worship, visiting it by turns, just as the people of earth frequent the Ancient House by making the annual Hajj, the continuous ʿumrah, and by constant circumambulation and prayer.

Saʿīd ibn Yaḥyā al-Umawī states at the beginning of his book al-Maghāzī: “Abū ʿUbayd narrated to us, in the report of Mujāhid, that ‘the Sacred Precinct (al-Ḥaram) is inviolable; its span—meaning its extent—reaches through the seven heavens and the seven earths. It is the fourth of fourteen houses: in every heaven there is a house and in every earth there is a house; if they were to collapse, each would fall directly upon the other.’”

He further related from Mujāhid that the term manāh means “directly opposite to it,” adding that it is a shortened word.

He also reported: “Abū Muʿāwiyah narrated to us; al-Aʿmash (from Abū Sulaymān, the muʾadhdhin of al-Ḥajjāj) said: I heard ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr declare, ‘The Sanctuary is inviolable in the seven heavens to the measure that it is on earth, and Bayt al-Maqdis is likewise sanctified in the seven heavens to the measure that it is on earth.’”

A poet has said:
He who raised the sky has built for us
a House whose pillars are stronger and far higher.

The house in the lowest heaven is called the “House of Glory” (Bayt al-ʿIzzah), and the chief angel stationed there is named Ismāʿīl. Accordingly, the seventy thousand angels who enter the Frequented House each day and never return—meaning they receive no further turn there until the end of time—must be from the inhabitants of the seventh heaven alone. Concerning this Allah the Exalted says, “None knows the hosts of your Lord but He” (Q 74:31).

Imām Aḥmad reported: “Aswad ibn ʿĀmir told us, Isrāʾīl narrated to us, from Ibrāhīm ibn Muhājir, from Mujāhid, from Murriq, from Abū Dharr, that the Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—said, ‘I see what you do not see, and I hear what you do not hear.’”