Moreover, Sufyān al-Thawrī—may Allah have mercy on him—was one of the transmitters of Abū Hurayrah’s hadith cited earlier as no. (6) in the wording:
“One prayer in my Mosque is better than a thousand prayers in any other mosque, except the Mosque….”
It is therefore highly unlikely that anything authentically traceable to him would contradict what he himself narrated from the Prophet ﷺ. The strong probability is that this report has been inserted into his corpus, for it clashes with sound hadiths.
That said, a marfūʿ report is related from Anas in the form:
“A man’s prayer in his house counts as one prayer; his prayer in the tribal mosques counts as twenty-five; his prayer in the central congregational mosque counts as five hundred; his prayer in al-Masjid al-Aqṣā counts as fifty thousand; his prayer in my Mosque counts as fifty thousand; and his prayer in the Sacred Mosque counts as one hundred thousand.”
Ibn Mājah recorded it (1/431–432) through the route of Abū al-Khiṭāb al-Dimashqī, who said: Zuraiq Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Alhānī narrated it to us from Anas. In al-Zawāʾid it is commented:
“Its chain is weak, because Abū al-Khiṭāb al-Dimashqī’s status is unknown, and Zuraiq is under discussion. It is reported from Abū Zurʿah that he said, ‘There is no harm in him.’ Ibn Ḥibbān listed him among both the reliable and the weak narrators, remarking: ‘He transmits singular reports unlike those of reliable transmitters; his narrations may be cited only when corroborating evidence exists.’”