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Performing two Rak´ah when one enters a mosque

 248. Abu Qatadah narrated: I entered the mosque, when the Messenger of Allah salla alayhi wa sallam was sitting with people, i sat down with them. The Messenger of Allah salla alayhi wa sallam asked: ´´What prevented you from performing two Rak´ah before sitting down?´´ I said: ´´O Messenger of Allah! I saw you sitting and people were sitting.´´ He said: ´´When one of you enters the mosque, let him not sit before he performs two Rak´ah.´´

What to say upon entering a mosque

 247. Abu Hurairah (Or: Abu Usaid) narrated that the Messenger of Allah salla alayhi wa sallam said: ´´When one of you enters a mosque, let him say: ´O Allah! open for me the door of Your mercy.´ And when he steps out, let him say: ´O Allah! I ask you of Your bounty.´´´

Preventing women from going to mosques

 246. ´Amrah bint Abdur.Rahman said: I heard ´Aishah the wife of the Prophet salla alayhi wa sallam say: ´´If the Messenger of Allah salla alayhi wa sallam had seen what new thongs women have introduced (n their way of life), he would have prevented them from going to mosque, as the women of Banu Israel were prevented.´´ (The narrator) said: I asked ´Anrah: ´´Were the women of Banu Israel prevented from going to mosques?´´ She replied: ´´Yes.´´

Women go to mosques

 245. Zainab Ath-Thaqafiyah narrated: the Messenger of Allah salla alayhi wa sallam said to us: ´´When one of you comes to the mosque, let her not wear perfume.´´

Going to the prayer with repose and avoiding going to it in haste

 244. Abu Qatadah narrated: While we were praying with the Messenger of Allah salla alayhi wa sallam he heard noise of some people. After the prayer he said, ´´Why did you do that?´´ They replied, ´´We hurried for prayer.´´ He said, ´´Do not do that. Come to prayer with calmness, and pray whatever you catch (with the people) and complete the rest which you have missed.´´

Walking to perform prayers effaces sins and exalts the rank

 243. Abu Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allah salla alayhi wa sallam said: ´´He who purifies himself in his house, and then he walks to one of the houses of Allah for the sake of performing an obligatory prayer, one of his steps obliterates a sin and the second exalts his status.´´

Excellence of taking longer distance to mosques

 242. Ubbay bin Ka´b said: There was a man among the Ansar whose house was situated at the farthest end of Al-Madinah, but he never missed a prayer with the Messenger of Allah salla alayhi wa sallam. I felt pity for him and said to him, ´´O so-and-so! had you bought a donkey, it would have saved you from the burning sand and would have saved you from the insects of the earth.´´ He said, ´´(Listen!) By Allah, I do not like my house to be situated by the house of the Messenger of Allah salla alayhi wa sallam.´´ I felt bad about his words, and I came to the Prophet salla alayhi wa sallam and told him what he said. He called him and he said like that (which he mentioned to Ubauu bin Ka´b) but made a mention of this (also) that he wanted a reward for his steps. Upon this the Prophet salla alayhi wa sallam said to him. ´´You shall have the reward which you except.´´