The Messenger of Allah ﷺ faced the two notches of the long mountain that lies toward the Kaaba, placing the masjid that was built to his right. The masjid stood at the edge of the hillock, and the praying place of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was below it on the black hillock, leaving about ten cubits of the hillock aside. Then he would pray facing the two notches of the long mountain that stands between him and the Kaaba.
قال وأخبرني أن
أن رسول الله ﷺ استقبل فرضتي الجبل الطويل الذي قبل الكعبة فجعل المسجد الذي بني يمينا والمسجد بطرف الأكمة ومصلى رسول الله ﷺ أسفل منه على الأكمة السوداء يدع من الأكمة عشر أذرع أو نحوها ثم يصلي مستقبل الفرضتين من الجبل الطويل الذي بينه وبين الكعبة
Its chain of transmission is sahih. It follows the previous one.The two mountain passes: the Hafiz said, "Al-Firdah, with a damma on the fa, a sakin ra, followed by a dotted dad, means the entrance of the path leading to the mountain." It has also been said to mean the raised cleft, like a parapet, and the term is likewise used for the mouth of a river. In Nihayah it says, "Firdat al-jabal is what slopes down from its middle and side, while firdat al-nahr is its landing place."The Hafiz mentioned here some good notes following his explanation of these hadiths. We will mention the second and fourth of them, because of the historical benefits they contain.He said in one of them, "Of these masjids, none are known today except the masjid of Zulhulayfa, while the masjids at Rawha are known to the people of that area." In the narration of Zubayr bin Bakkar, in his Akhbar Madinah, coming through another route from Nafi from Ibn Umar, this hadith contains additional detail describing those masjids. In Tirmidhi, from the hadith of Amr bin Awf, the Prophet ﷺ prayed in the valley of Rawha and said, "Seventy prophets have prayed in this masjid."He said in the other note, "Bukhari mentioned the masjids that are on the roads of Madinah, but did not mention the masjids that were within Madinah itself, because no chain of transmission meeting his conditions had reached him regarding that." Umar bin Shabbah, in his Akhbar Madinah, comprehensively listed the masjids and places where the Prophet ﷺ had prayed in Madinah. He narrated from Abu Ghassan, from more than one scholar, that every masjid in Madinah and its surroundings built with matching engraved stones was one in which the Prophet ﷺ had indeed prayed. This is because Umar bin Abdul-Aziz, when he built the masjid of Madinah, asked the people, who were numerous at that time, about this, and then built them with matching engraved stones.Umar bin Shabbah identified a great many of these, but most of them, by this time (that is, in the era of the Hafiz when he wrote Fath al-Bari, in the first half of the ninth century), had disappeared. What remained well known then were the masjid of Quba, the masjid of Fadikh, east of the masjid of Quba, the masjid of Banu Qurayza, the Mashrabat Umm Ibrahim, north of the masjid of Qurayza, the masjid of Banu Zafar, east of Baqi, known as the masjid of Baghlah, the masjid of Banu Muawiya, known as the masjid of Ijabah, the masjid of Fath, near Mount Sal, and the masjid of the Two Qiblahs, in Banu Salama. This is how some of our shaykhs recorded it.