Sahih Muslim Book - 15, Hadith - 3237

حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَعَبْدُ بْنُ حُمَيْدٍ جَمِيعًا عَنِ ابْنِ بَكْرٍ قَالَ عَبْدٌ أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَكْرٍ أَخْبَرَنَا ابْنُ جُرَيْجٍ قَالَ قُلْتُ لِعَطَاءٍ أَسَمِعْتَ ابْنَ عَبَّاسٍ يَقُولُ إِنَّمَا أُمِرْتُمْ بِالطَّوَافِ وَلَمْ تُؤْمَرُوا بِدُخُولِهِ. قَالَ لَمْ يَكُنْ يَنْهَى عَنْ دُخُولِهِ وَلَكِنِّى سَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ أَخْبَرَنِى أُسَامَةُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ أَنَّ النَّبِىَّ -صلى الله عليه وسلم- لَمَّا دَخَلَ الْبَيْتَ دَعَا فِى نَوَاحِيهِ كُلِّهَا وَلَمْ يُصَلِّ فِيهِ حَتَّى خَرَجَ فَلَمَّا خَرَجَ رَكَعَ فِى قُبُلِ الْبَيْتِ رَكْعَتَيْنِ. وَقَالَ « هَذِهِ الْقِبْلَةُ ». قُلْتُ لَهُ مَا نَوَاحِيهَا أَفِى زَوَايَاهَا قَالَ بَلْ فِى كُلِّ قِبْلَةٍ مِنَ الْبَيْتِ.

Ibn Juraij said: “I said to ‘Ata’: ‘Did you hear Ibn ‘Abbas say: “You have only been commanded to circumambulate it, you have not been commanded to enter it?” He said: “He did not forbid (people) to enter it, rather I heard him say: ‘Usamah bin Zaid told me that when the Prophet (SAW) entered the House, he supplicated on all its sides, but he did not pray therein, until he came out. When he came out, he prayed two Ra‘kah in front of the House and said: ‘This is the Qiblah.”’ I (Ibn Juraij) said to him (‘Ata’): “What are ‘its sides?’ Was that in its corners?’ He said: “No, in every direction of the House.”