✦⋆· was asked by Abu Dharr how to maintain the mosques, to which he replied, "Voices should not be raised therein, nor engrossment in wrongdoing. There should be no buying or selling, and all vain talk must be shunned as long as you are inside.

If you do not do this, then you will have no one to blame but yourself on the Day of Resurrection."

● "O Abu Dharr, verily for as long as you remain seated in the mosque Allah, most High, will grant you an extra level in Paradise for every breath you take, the angels send salutations on you, and ten good deeds are recorded and ten evil deeds wiped away for every breath you take therein."

● "He who walks to a mosque asking people to join him along the way gets the equivalent of seventy thousand good deeds for every step he takes, and he is raised as many levels, and if he dies on the way, Allah assigns seventy thousand angels to visit him in his grave to keep him company in his loneliness and to seek forgiveness for him until the day he is raised again."

● "Do not use the mosques as mere passageways until you have prayed two units of prayer therein."

✦⋆· "The prayer of one who lives neighbouring the mosque [yet prays at home] is null and void unless he prays inside the mosque, except if he has an excuse or if he is sick."

When asked who was considered as neighbouring the mosque, he replied, "Anyone who hears the call to prayer."

● "The sanctuary of the mosque extends to forty cubits, and its neighbouring precinct extends to forty houses on all four sides."

✦⋆· "It is incumbent upon you to attend the mosques, for verily they are the houses of Allah on earth.

And whoever enters them having purified himself, Allah will purify him of his sins and will record him down as one of its frequenters, so perform many prayers and supplications therein."

● "He who builds a mosque, Allah will order a house to be built for him in Paradise."