Al-Kafi · Hadith 3

The Book of Prayer · Construction of the Masjid of the Holy Prophet · Volume 3, book 4, chapter 13, Hadith 3

Original Arabic text

3ـ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ إِدْرِيسَ وَغَيْرُهُ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ إِسْمَاعِيلَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ سَعِيدٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي مُوسَى بْنُ أُكَيْلٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الأعْلَى مَوْلَى آلِ سَامٍ قَالَ قُلْتُ لأَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلام) كَمْ كَانَ مَسْجِدُ رَسُولِ الله (صلّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِه) قَالَ كَانَ ثَلاَثَةِ آلاَفٍ وَسِتَّمِائَةِ ذِرَاعٍ تَكْسِيراً.

Published English translation

3. Ahmad ibn Idris and other people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Ali ibn ’Isma‘il from Muhammad ibn ‘Amr ibn Sa‘id who has said that Musa ibn ‘Ukayl narrated from ‘Abd al-‘A’la’ from Mawla Ala Sam who has said the following: “I asked abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), ‘What was the size of Masjid of the Messenger of Allah?’ He (the Imam) replied, ‘It was three thousand and six hundred square yards.’”

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: مجهول أو حسن

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (5/68)

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Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi: صحيح

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 1, p. 266

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