Al-Mundhirī also included the report in al-Targhīb (1/62) and commented: “It was narrated by Ibn Mājah and al-Bayhaqī, and its chain contains no narrator who has been discarded, nor anyone whose weakness is unanimously agreed upon.”
Regarding the Prophet’s words “this mosque of mine,” al-Shawkānī said:
“This plainly states that the reward attached to entering applies only to someone who is in his ﷺ mosque. It is impermissible to extend that ruling to other mosques that are inferior in merit, for that would be an analogy in spite of a decisive difference. As for his statement, ‘and whoever enters for anything else…,’ its outward sense is that every activity in the mosque that does not involve teaching or learning some form of good is prohibited. Nevertheless, it must be qualified so as to exclude prayer, remembrance, retreat (iʿtikāf), and the like—acts whose performance, or whose guidance to perform them, in the mosque is textually sanctioned.”
Concerning his ﷺ saying, “What lies between my house and my pulpit is a garden from the gardens of Paradise,” this ḥadīth was transmitted by numerous Companions. For that reason al-Suyūṭī, as quoted by al-Munāwī, declared, “This is a mutawātir (mass-transmitted) ḥadīth.”
We shall now present the narrations for which we have found complete chains:
- ʿAbd Allāh ibn Zayd al-Māzinī
Al-Bukhārī (3/54), Muslim (4/123), Mālik (1/202), al-Nasāʾī (1/113), and Aḥmad (4/39, 40) all recorded it through various routes from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Bakr, from ʿAbbād ibn Tamīm, from him.