Travelling to a Particular Mosque for the Maghrib Prayer

Question

In the city of Burhanpur, since the time of Hazrat Shah Nizamuddin Bhikari, the Maghrib prayer has been held near the shrine of the said [shaykh]; the khatib of the Jami‘ Mosque leads it. People travel from far and wide to come for it, and it has been made widely known that whoever performs the Maghrib prayer there for four or seven years receives the reward of one Hajj. Is it permissible to pray in this way, to lead such a prayer, and to hold such a belief? Please explain and be rewarded.

Answer

This practice is baseless; it has no foundation whatsoever in the Shari‘a. Regarding three mosques, the hadiths contain an explicit statement of a special reward: (1) the Sacred Mosque (al-Masjid al-Haram), (2) al-Masjid al-Nabawi, (3)

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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