DALEEL - WHAT IS AL BAIT UL MAMUR?

[Laila Nasheeba]

 

As Salaamu Alaikoum,

 

Today someone joined the website and asked the Question, Is the Kaaba the same house that the angels in Paradise go to to pray to Allah in Paradise.  The answer given was, No, the Kaaba is of this world, not Paradise and the angels glorify Allah in all the heavens and are not limited to just one place.  The house the questioner was referring to is, 'Al Bait Al Ma'Mur'.  Imam Bukhari and Muslim mention this place in the Hadith of the Prophets (sa) night journey through the heavens:

 

"...Then I was taken up to the seventh heaven. Gabriel asked the (gate) to be opened. It was said: Who is he? He said: Gabriel It was said. Who is with thee? He replied: Muhammad (may peace be upon him.) It was said: Has he been sent for? He replied: He has indeed been sent for. (The gate) was opened for us and there I found Ibrahim (Abraham peace be upon him) reclining against the bait-ul-Ma'mur and there enter into it seventy thousand angels every day, never to visit (this place) again..."

 

So what then is Al Bait ul Mamur? 

 

Al Bait ul Mamur is the House of Allah in which Allah's throne is found.  It is NOT the Kaaba. 

 

It is said by some of the scholars that every day 70 thousand angels make pilgramidge to this house and never leave it., but no one has stated that all the angels go there to pray everyday.

 

Other scholars say that the Kaaba in Mecca is positioned underneath Al Bait ul Mamur.  Allah knows best if this is true.

 

 

 

AND ALLAH KNOWS BEST