[Machine] About the night of the Prophet Muhammad's ﷺ ascension, he said, "So I set off, or we set off, until we reached the Bayt al-Maqdis (Jerusalem) but did not enter it." He said, "I said, 'Rather, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ entered it that night and prayed in it.' He asked, 'What is your name, O bald one? For I know your face but I do not know your name.' I said, 'I am Zirr bin Hubaysh.' He asked, 'How do you know that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ prayed in it that night?' I said, 'The Quran informs me of that.' He said, 'Whoever speaks with the Quran, let him recite.' So I recited, 'Exalted is He who took His Servant by night from al-Masjid al-Haram to al-Masjid al-Aqsa.' (Quran 17:1) He said, 'I did not find it.' He asked, 'O bald one, do you find prayers in it?' I said, 'No.' He said, 'By Allah, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ did not pray in it that night. If he had prayed in it, it would have been written for you to pray in it, just as the prayer is written for you in al-Bayt al-Atiq (the Ancient House, i.e., the Kaaba). By Allah, the lightning has not ceased to bolt until the doors of the sky were opened for them, and they saw Paradise and Hell, and the promise of the Hereafter, all of it. Then they returned by the same way they had come.' He said, 'Then he laughed, until I saw his molar teeth.' He said, 'And they say that it was tied to al-Buraq. But rather, the All-Knower of the Unseen and the Witness has made it subject for him.' I asked, 'O Abu Abdullah, what is al-Buraq?' He said, 'Al-Buraq is a white animal, long with a stride as far as the eye can see.'"
عَنْ لَيْلَةِ أُسْرِيَ بِمُحَمَّدٍ ﷺ وَهُوَ يَقُولُ فَانْطَلَقْتُ أَوْ انْطَلَقْنَا حَتَّى أَتَيْنَا عَلَى بَيْتِ الْمَقْدِسِ فَلَمْ يَدْخُلَاهُ قَالَ قُلْتُ بَلْ دَخَلَهُ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ لَيْلَتَئِذٍ وَصَلَّى فِيهِ قَالَ مَا اسْمُكَ يَا أَصْلَعُ؟ فَإِنِّي أَعْرِفُ وَجْهَكَ وَلَا أَدْرِي مَا اسْمُكَ قَالَ قُلْتُ أَنَا زِرُّ بْنُ حُبَيْشٍ قَالَ فَمَا عِلْمُكَ بِأَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ صَلَّى فِيهِ لَيْلَتَئِذٍ؟ قَالَ قُلْتُ الْقُرْآنُ يُخْبِرُنِي بِذَلِكَ قَالَ مَنْ تَكَلَّمَ بِالْقُرْآنِ فَلَجَ اقْرَأْ قَالَ فَقَرَأْتُ {سُبْحَانَ الَّذِي أَسْرَى بِعَبْدِهِ لَيْلًا مِنَ الْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرَامِ} [الإسراء 1] قَالَ فَلَمْ أَجِدْهُ صَلَّى فِيهِ قَالَ يَا أَصْلَعُ هَلْ تَجِدُ صَلَّى فِيهِ؟ قَالَ قُلْتُ لَا قَالَ وَاللهِ مَا صَلَّى فِيهِ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ لَيْلَتَئِذٍ لَوْ صَلَّى فِيهِ لَكُتِبَ عَلَيْكُمْ صَلَاةٌ فِيهِ كَمَا كُتِبَ عَلَيْكُمْ صَلَاةٌ فِي الْبَيْتِ الْعَتِيقِ وَاللهِ مَا زَايَلَا الْبُرَاقَ حَتَّى فُتِحَتْ لَهُمَا أَبْوَابُ السَّمَاءِ فَرَأَيَا الْجَنَّةَ وَالنَّارَ وَوَعْدَ الْآخِرَةِ أَجْمَعَ ثُمَّ عَادَا عَوْدَهُمَا عَلَى بَدْئِهِمَا قَالَ ثُمَّ ضَحِكَ حَتَّى رَأَيْتُ نَوَاجِذَهُ قَالَ وَيُحَدِّثُونَ أَنَّهُ رَبَطَهُ أَلِيَفِرَّ مِنْهُ؟ وَإِنَّمَا سَخَّرَهُ لَهُ عَالِمُالْغَيْبِ وَالشَّهَادَةِ قَالَ قُلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللهِ أَيُّ دَابَّةٍ الْبُرَاقُ؟ قَالَ دَابَّةٌ أَبْيَضُ طَوِيلٌ هَكَذَا خَطْوُهُ مَدُّ الْبَصَرِ