WE RELATE FROM the Ṣaḥīḥ of Muslim that Abū Hurayrah
reported that the Messenger of Allah
said: “Whoever hears a man raising his voice looking for his lost property in the mosque should say to him: May Allah not return it to you, because this is not what mosques were built for.” [1].
We also relate from the Ṣaḥīḥ of Muslim that Buraydah
related that a man was raising his voice [searching for a stray animal of his] in the mosque, saying: “Who will call the red camel for me?” The Messenger
said: “May you not find it. Mosques were only built for what they were built for.” [2].
And we relate from the book of at-Tirmidhī, at the end of the chapter on transactions, that Abū Hurayrah
related that the Messenger of Allah
said: “If you see someone buying and selling in the mosque then say: May Allah not make your trade profitable. And if you see someone raising his voice searching for his stray [animal] in the mosque then say: May Allah not return it to you.” [3].At-Tirmidhī describ
ed this hadith as good.
References
[1] Muslim (568), Abū Dāwūd (473), and at-Tirmidhī (1321).
[2] Muslim (569).
[3] At-Tirmidhī (1321), who states that this hadith is ḥasan gharīb.