That extra passage, however, was inserted by Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb—may Allah disgrace him—into his father’s narration.

A related report comes from Abū Dharr, may Allah be pleased with him. He said: “While we were in the company of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ we began to discuss which was superior: the Messenger’s Mosque or the mosque of Bayt al-Maqdis. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:

‘One prayer in this mosque of mine is better than four prayers offered there. What an excellent place of worship it is! A time will soon come (the original manuscript reads: “will not come”) when a man who owns no more land than the shaṭn—a rope used to tether his horse—from which he can see Bayt al-Maqdis will find it better for him than the whole world, or, he said, better than the world and all it contains.’

Al-Ḥākim recorded this ḥadith (4/509) through the chain of al-Ḥajjāj ibn al-Ḥajjāj, from Qatādah, from Abū’l-Khalīl, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ṣāmit, from Abū Dharr. He declared its chain authentic, and al-Dhahabī concurred—rightly so.

Al-Ṭabarānī also included it in al-Awsat, and its transmitters are those found in the authentic collections, as noted in al-Majmaʿ (4/7). Al-Munḏirī remarks (2/138): “Al-Bayhaqī narrated it with an isnād that is acceptable, though the wording is somewhat unusual.”

Ibn ʿAsākir transmitted it via Saʿīd ibn Bashīr, from Qatādah, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ṣāmit, omitting Abū’l-Khalīl between Qatādah and Ibn al-Ṣāmit. The sound version, however, retains him; his name is Ṣāliḥ ibn Abī Maryam, a reliable transmitter cited by all six canonical compilations.