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While the people were at Quba offering the morning prayer, suddenly a person came to them saying,
"Tonight Divine Inspiration has been revealed to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and he has been ordered to face the
Ka`ba (in prayers): therefore you people should face it." There faces were towards Sham, so they
turned their faces towards the Ka`ba (at Mecca).
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 95, Hadith 6
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Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) finished his prayer after offerings two rak`at only. Dhul-Yaddain asked him whether
the prayer had been reduced, or you had forgotten?" The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Is Dhul-Yaddain speaking the
truth?" The people said, "Yes." Then Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) stood up and performed another two rak`at and
then finished prayer with Taslim, and then said the Takbir and performed a prostration similar to or
longer than his ordinary prostrations; then he raised his head, said Takbir and prostrated and then
raised his head (Sahu prostrations).
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When Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) arrived at Medina, he prayed facing Jerusalem for sixteen or seventeen months
but he wished that he would be ordered to face the Ka`ba. So Allah revealed: --
'Verily! We have seen the turning of your face towards the heaven; surely we shall turn you to a
prayer direction (Qibla) that shall please you.' (2.144) Thus he was directed towards the Ka`ba. A man
prayed the `Asr prayer with the Prophet (ﷺ) and then went out, and passing by some people from the
Ansar, he said, "I testify. that I have prayed with the Prophet (ﷺ) and he (the Prophet) has prayed facing
the Ka`ba." Thereupon they, who were bowing in the `Asr prayer, turned towards the Ka`ba.