4. Mosques and Congregations

٤۔ كتاب المساجد والجماعات

4.11 Prohibition Of Making Lost-and-Found Announcements In The Mosque

٤۔١١ باب النَّهْىِ عَنْ إِنْشَادِ الضَّوَالِّ، فِي الْمَسْجِدِ

ibnmajah:765ʿAlī b. Muḥammad > Wakīʿ > Abū Sinān Saʿīd b. Sinān > ʿAlqamah b. Marthad > Sulaymān b. Buraydah from his father

"The Messenger of Allah performed prayer, then a man said: 'Who was looking for the red camel?' The Prophet said: 'May you not find it! The mosques were built for that for which they were built.'"  

ابن ماجة:٧٦٥حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ عَنْ أَبِي سِنَانٍ سَعِيدِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ عَنْ عَلْقَمَةَ بْنِ مَرْثَدٍ عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ بُرَيْدَةَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

صَلَّى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَقَالَ رَجُلٌ مَنْ دَعَا إِلَى الْجَمَلِ الأَحْمَرِ فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ لاَ وَجَدْتَهُ إِنَّمَا بُنِيَتِ الْمَسَاجِدُ لِمَا بُنِيَتْ لَهُ  

ibnmajah:766[Chain 1] Muḥammad b. Rumḥ > Ibn Lahīʿah [Chain 2] Abū Kurayb > Ḥātim b. Ismāʿīl > Ibn ʿAjlān > ʿAmr b. Shuʿayb from his father from his grandfather

The Messenger of Allah forbade making lost-and-found announcements in the mosque.  

ابن ماجة:٧٦٦حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ رُمْحٍ أَنْبَأَنَا ابْنُ لَهِيعَةَ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا أَبُو كُرَيْبٍ حَدَّثَنَا حَاتِمُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ جَمِيعًا عَنِ ابْنِ عَجْلاَنَ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ شُعَيْبٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ جَدِّهِ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ نَهَى عَنْ إِنْشَادِ الضَّالَّةِ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ  

ibnmajah:767Yaʿqūb b. Ḥumayd b. Kāsib > ʿAbdullāh b. Wahb > Ḥaywah b. Shurayḥ > Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Asadī Abū al-Aswad > Abū ʿAbdullāh a freed slave of Shaddād b. al-Hād > Abū Hurayrah

He heard Abu Hurairah say: "I heard the Messenger of Allah say: 'Whoever hears a man making a lost-and-found announcement in the mosque, let him say: "May Allah not return it to you!" For the mosques were not built for that.'"  

ابن ماجة:٧٦٧حَدَّثَنَا يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ كَاسِبٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ وَهْبٍ أَخْبَرَنِي حَيْوَةُ بْنُ شُرَيْحٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الأَسَدِيِّ أَبِي الأَسْوَدِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ مَوْلَى شَدَّادِ بْنِ الْهَادِ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ يَقُولُ

سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ مَنْ سَمِعَ رَجُلاً يَنْشُدُ ضَالَّةً فِي الْمَسْجِدِ فَلْيَقُلْ لاَ رَدَّ اللَّهُ عَلَيْكَ فَإِنَّ الْمَسَاجِدَ لَمْ تُبْنَ لِهَذَا