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Al-Buraq

البراق

A beast smaller than a mule and larger than a donkey which the Prophet ﷺ rode on the Night Journey from the Sacred Mosque to the Farthest Mosque, placing its hoof where its sight reached.

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Mentioned in
Bukhari 3207 — The Isra and Mi'raj hadith· Nasa'i 448 — The Ascension and the prayers: I have upheld My command and lightened it for My servants
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The mule

People and things also explored

Sacred hadith (hadith qudsi)· The mule· Nasa'i 448 — The Ascension and the prayers: I have upheld My command and lightened it for My servants· The donkey· The horse· The major signs of the Hour· The Isra and Mi'raj· The opening of the breast

Sources

  • Sahih al-Bukhari
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Sacred hadith (hadith qudsi)

A hadith qudsi is what the Prophet related from his Lord, marked in the chains by the formula 'among what he relates from his Lord', and also called divine or lordly tradition to set it apart from the prophetic hadith. The Encyclopaedia of Islam notes that, unlike the Qur'an, it is not recited in the prayer and may be touched without ritual purity, and that it may come by inspiration or in a dream rather than necessarily through Gabriel. It forms no separate group in the books of tradition, but collections exist, among them al-Madani's al-Ithafat al-saniyya and Ibn al-Arabi's Mishkat al-anwar.