“Pitching a tent inside the mosque.”
Al-Ḥāfiẓ commented: “From this it is permissible to erect tents in the mosque.”
There is also, on this subject, the report of Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī who said:
“The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was observing iʿtikāf in the mosque. While he was inside his pavilion, he heard people reciting aloud, so he drew the curtain aside and said, ‘Indeed every one of you is privately conversing with his Lord; therefore, let none of you harm another and let none of you raise his voice above that of another in recitation’—or he said, ‘in prayer.’”
Aḥmad transmitted it, saying: “ʿAbd al-Razzāq narrated to us; Maʿmar narrated to us from Ismāʿīl ibn Umayyah, from Abū Salamah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from him.” This isnād is sound according to the criteria of the Six, and Abū Dāwūd also recorded it through this route.
- Playing with spears and similar weapons of war is allowed because it provides training for combat and strengthens readiness for jihad. ʿUmar once entered while the Abyssinians were playing [in the mosque] and rebuked them (in another wording he bent down to gather pebbles to throw at them). The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Leave them, O ʿUmar, for they are Banū Arfada.”
The ḥadith is narrated by Abū Hurayrah. It was recorded by al-Bukhārī, Muslim, al-Nasāʾī, and Aḥmad through the route of al-Zuhrī, from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib, from him. The wording given here is that of al-Nasāʾī; the other recension is the version of the two Shaykhs and of Aḥmad, along with the first additional phrase