With-Love-to-Muhammad

288 With Love to Muhammad sa the Khātam-un-Nabiyyīn
Jerusalem) and last, Masjid al-Nabawi (in
Madinah). 284
He then goes on to support his point with the following hadīth:
Qaza’a Maulā (freed slave of) Ziyād said: “I heard
Abū Sa‘īd Al-Khudrī ra narrating four things from the
Prophet sa and I appreciated them very much. He said,
conveying the words of the Prophet sa ,
(1) ‘A woman should not go on a two-day journey
except with her husband or a Dhī Mahram.
(2) No fasting is permissible on two days: ‘Īdul Fitr
and ‘Īdul Adhā.
(3) No prayer after two prayers, i.e. after the Fajr
prayer till the sun rises and after the ‘Asr prayer till
the sun sets.
(4) Do not prepare yourself for a journey except to
three Mosques: Al-Masjid-Al-Haram, the Mosque of
Aqsa (Jerusalem), and my Mosque’.” 285
Then, he says, “...the three masjids are specified as the only
اخر masjids worth traveling for and Masjid an-Nabawi is the
ٓ
(last) to be built.” This is a serious disaster in scholarship and is
some of Khan’s most incoherent reasoning concocted in his
book! He has tried to put together two completely unrelated
statements of the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa to reach a faulty
conclusion! In an attempt to prove that the Holy Prophet sa spoke
of Masjid-an-Nabwī as the last mosque, he has presented a hadīth
where the Holy Prophet sa only happened to mention Masjid-an-
Nabwī at the end of his sentence. There are other similar ahādīth
284
Ibid.
285
Sahīh Bukhārī, Volume 2, Book 21, Hadīth Number 288