A step to the mosque: a rank raised and a sin shed

الخطوة إلى المسجد: درجة تُرفع وخطيئة تُحطّ

When a man performs ablution well and then goes out to the mosque for nothing but the prayer, he takes no step without a rank being raised for him and a sin shed from him by it, and the angels keep praying for him as long as he stays in his place of prayer, in Abu Hurayra (may God be pleased with him)'s narration in al-Bukhari Sahih al-Bukhari 647 — ranks raised; bad deeds erased and sins shed Sahih al-Bukhari 477 — ranks raised; bad deeds erased and sins shed. It is one of the texts that make the counter literal: step by step.