Waiting for the prayer

Messenger of Allah ( may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him ) said, "Should I not direct you to something by which Allah obliterates the sins and elevates (your) ranks." They said: "Yes, O Messenger of Allah". He said, "Performing Wudu' properly, even in difficulty, frequently going to the mosque, and waiting eagerly for the next Salat (prayer) after a Salat is over; indeed, that is Ar- Ribat".

Messenger of Allah ( may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him ) said, "Should I not direct you to something by which Allah obliterates the sins and elevates (your) ranks." They said: "Yes, O Messenger of Allah". He said, "Performing Wudu' properly, even in difficulty, frequently going to the mosque, and waiting eagerly for the next Salat (prayer) after a Salat is over; indeed, that is Ar- Ribat".

Allah's Messenger ( may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him ) as saying: The angels invoke blessings on every one among you so long as he is in a place of worship with these words: O Allah! pardon him, O Allah, have mercy upon him, ( and they continue to do so ) as long as, the ablution ( of the worshipper ) is not broken, and one among you is in prayer and so long as he is detained for the prayer.

Allah's Messenger ( may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him ) as saying: “ The Masjids have pegs [i.e. people who habitually frequent them, like how pegs cling on to what they are attached to]. The angels are their companions. If they are absent the angels search for them, and if they become sick the angels visit them, and if they are in need the angels assist them.”

The Messenger of Allah ( may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him ) said, "Any group of people that assemble in one of the Houses of Allah to recite the Book of Allah, learning and teaching it, tranquility will descend upon them, mercy will engulf them, angels will surround them and Allah will make mention of them to those (the angels) in His proximity."

Mu'awiyah ( May Allah be pleased with him ) came to an assembly in the mosque and asked them: "What has made you sit together?" They replied, "We are sitting here to remember Allah." He said, "I adjure you by Allah to tell me whether nothing else has made you to sit together." They replied: "By Allah! We are sitting only to remember Allah." Then he said, "I did not adjure you because I suspected you. No one of my rank in the eyes of the Messenger of Allah ( may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him ) is the narrator of so few traditions as I am. The fact is that the Messenger of Allah ( may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him ) went out to a circle of his Companions and said, 'What has made you sit there?' When they replied that they are sitting together to remember Allah and to praise Him for guiding them to Islam and bestowing favours on them, he ( may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him ) said, 'I adjure you by Allah to tell me that nothing else has made you sit together.' On their reply that there was certainly no other purpose, he, may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said, 'I did not adjure you because I suspected you, but Jibril (Gabriel) came to me and told me that Allah was talking proudly of you to the angels."'

The Prophet ( may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him ) said, "Seven are (the persons) whom Allah will give Shade of His Throne on the Day when there would be no shade other than His .. a man whose heart is attached to mosques;… His heart is not attached to the mosque except for his love for it, and his love for staying in it. Whoever loves the mosque has loved what Allah Almighty loves.

The Messenger of Allah ( may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him ) said, “The mosque is the home of every righteous person. Allah Almighty has guaranteed those who have their home in the mosques with the mercy and safe passage over the bridge of Hell unto the pleasure of Allah Almighty.”

The Messenger of Allah, may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said: " On the day of resurrection, Allah will call upon the creatures: where are my neighbors? where are my neighbors? The Angels will respond by saying: who may be of your neighbors? Allah the Exalted will say: " they are those who maintain the mosques "