and the position held by the overwhelming majority of scholars is that a prayer in the Sacred Mosque is more meritorious than a prayer in the Prophet’s Mosque.

For that reason the Prophet ﷺ used to come to Qubāʾ [every Saturday], riding or on foot, [and would perform two rakʿahs there].

This ḥadith is narrated from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar—may Allah be pleased with them both—through three routes:

1. Via Nāfiʿ from him.
   Al-Bukhārī (3/53), Muslim (4/127), Mālik (1/181), Abū Dāwūd (1/319), al-Ṭayālisī (p. 252 no. 1839) and Aḥmad (2/4, 57, 58, 65, 101, 155) all record it through different chains. The second supplementary wording is found only in the two Ṣaḥīḥs.

2. Via ʿAbd Allāh ibn Dīnār from him.
   It is reported by the two Ṣaḥīḥs, al-Nasāʾī (1/113), and Aḥmad (2/30, 58, 65, 72, 108) through several routes as well. The first supplementary wording is likewise confined to the two Ṣaḥīḥs.
   Al-Ḥākim (1/487) also transmitted it through this chain with the wording: “He would frequently go to Qubāʾ on foot and mounted,” and he declared, “Sound according to the criteria of the two Shaykhs, although they did not record it with this exact wording.”

3. Ibn Isḥāq narrated: “My father Isḥāq ibn Yasār informed me from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Qays ibn Makhramah, who said: I was coming from the mosque of Banū ʿAmr ibn ʿAwf in Qubāʾ riding my mule, having prayed there, when I met ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar walking. When I saw him I dismounted from my mule and then …”