The Night Journey

What You Will Learn

• The Isra’ to Jerusalem — verse Al-Isra’ 17:1, the opening of the chest, al-Buraq, and leading the prophets in prayer (Sahih Muslim 172).
• The Mi‘raj through the seven heavens — the hadith of Malik ibn Sa‘sa‘ah (Sahih al-Bukhari 3887), the prophets he met and the weeping of Musa.
• Sidrat al-Muntaha and al-Bayt al-Ma‘mur (An-Najm 53:13–18), milk and the fitrah, and whether he saw Allah.
• The gift of the five prayers — from fifty to five, with the reward of fifty (Sahih al-Bukhari 349).
• Quraysh deny, Abu Bakr affirms (Sahih al-Bukhari 3886, 3888), and the lessons of the Isra’ and Mi‘raj.
• Yathrib, Mus‘ab ibn ‘Umayr and the two Pledges of al-‘Aqabah (Sahih al-Bukhari 3777, 18, 3925) that opened the way to the hijrah.
• Important places and Jerusalem at the time of the Isra’ — from al-Hijr to Jerusalem (about 1,240 km in a straight line) and Masjid al-Bay‘ah at Mina, with distances; the Persian capture of Jerusalem in 614 CE, Heraclius’s return in 630 CE, and ‘Umar’s entry around 638 CE.
• Traces of history, people and a timeline — the Qibli Mosque, the Dome of the Rock (72 AH / 691–692 CE) and its inscriptions, the al-Buraq Mosque with a note that the location of the al-Buraq Wall is tradition, not scripture, tables of the prophets and people, a timeline 614–692 CE, and 12 frequently asked questions.

This eBook Is For