Jerusalem’s sanctity in Muslim belief is well known, and most famously expounded in a genre called ‘The Merits of Jerusalem (faḍāʾil bayt al-maqdis)’. But most collections of these traditions date after the 11th century AD. Are these traditions therefore late? Definitely not …
The 1st exegete of the Qurʾan whose work survives is Muqātil ibn Sulaymān al-Balkhī (d. 150/765, Baṣrah). His tafsīr preserves an extensive early list of Jerusalem’s merits (faḍāʾil) in an excursus on Q. Isrāʾ 17:1. Muqātil was active in Iraq, but ...
the traditions he records are likely Syrian; thus, they almost certainly date to the late-Umayyad era, perhaps even earlier. Here's a selection of some of the traditions he records ...
•The first piece of earth on land to dry [after creation, cf. Genesis 1:10] is of the Rock of Jerusalem (ṣaḫrat bayt al-maqdis); it's nearer to heaven [than other places] by 18 miles.
•The Rock of Jerusalem is connected to the rock God mentioned in the Qurʾan (Q. Kahf 18:63)
•The Rock of Jerusalem is connected to the rock God mentioned in the Qurʾan (Q. Kahf 18:63)
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•The first land which God first blessed is the land of Jerusalem
•The Lord made the land of Jerusalem the place where he will establish himself (maqāmahu) on the Day of Resurrection and made Jerusalem his chosen above all other lands.
•The Lord made the land of Jerusalem the place where he will establish himself (maqāmahu) on the Day of Resurrection and made Jerusalem his chosen above all other lands.
•Moses saw the light of the Lord of all generations in the land of Jerusalem and revealed himself to the mountain in the land of Jerusalem (Q. Aʿrāf 7:143).
•The Rock in Jerusalem is the center of the entire world.
•The Rock in Jerusalem is the center of the entire world.
•The gathering of the dead and their judgment will be in the land of Jerusalem.
•Gog and Magog will conquer the entire world except for Jerusalem, where God will destroy them.
•God tends daily to the welfare of Jerusalem.
•Gog and Magog will conquer the entire world except for Jerusalem, where God will destroy them.
•God tends daily to the welfare of Jerusalem.
•God shall come to Jerusalem under a canopy of clouds alongside the angels. The Ṣirāṭ from the land of Jerusalem to Paradise and Hell shall be erected, and the Scales will be set up in Jerusalem and the angels placed in rows.
•The Kaʿbah and the Black Stone will be brought like brides to Jerusalem
•Those who died in iḥrām will be taken from their graves to Jerusalem saying the talbiyah
•Isrāfīl will sound the trumpet (ṣūr) announcing the Day of Judgment from the Rock of Jerusalem
•Those who died in iḥrām will be taken from their graves to Jerusalem saying the talbiyah
•Isrāfīl will sound the trumpet (ṣūr) announcing the Day of Judgment from the Rock of Jerusalem
•From Jerusalem humanity will be separated into those who shall enter Paradise and Hell, that is the meaning of His word, «on that Day shall be separated» «on that Day they shall be divided» (Q. Rūm 30: 14, 43)
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