The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "The most beloved places to Allah are its mosques, and the most detested places to Allah are its marketplaces."
أن رسول الله ﷺ، قال: أحب البلاد إلى الله مساجدها، وأبغض البلاد إلى الله أسواقها.
Muslim narrated it in "The Mosques" (671) through several routes from Anas bin Iyad Abu Damra, from Harith bin Abdul-Rahman bin Abu Zubab, from Abdul-Rahman bin Mihran, the freed slave of Abu Hurairah, from Abu Hurairah, who related something similar.As for what is narrated from Ibn Umar concerning the story of the Prophet ﷺ asking Jibreel, and Jibreel asking Allah , its chain includes Ata bin Saaib, who suffered mental confusion in his old age, and Jareer bin Abdul-Hameed is among those who narrated from him after this confusion had set in.Abu Jafar bin Abu Shayba related it through this same route in Kitab Arsh (74), as did Ibn Hibban in his Sahih (1599), and Hakim (1/90, 7/2-8), all of them by this route.Haythami mentioned it in Majma (6/2) and said, "Tabarani narrated it in Kabir, and its chain includes Ata bin Saaib, who is reliable, but he suffered confusion in his old age, while the rest of its narrators are reliable."Perhaps whoever graded it hasan did so in view of its corroborating witness from the hadith of Abu Hurairah.Likewise, what is narrated from Jubayr bin Mutim, resembling the story of the Prophet asking Jibreel, and Jibreel asking his Lord
, is not sound.Hakim narrated it (7/2) through the route of Abu Huzaifa Musa bin Masud, who said, Zuhayr bin Muhammad narrated to us, from Abdullah bin Muhammad bin Aqeel, from Muhammad bin Jubayr bin Mutim, from his father, and he related the hadith.Hakim graded it sahih. Dhahabi took issue with this, saying, "Zuhayr has objectionable narrations, and this is one of them, and Ibn Aqeel has some weakness in him."Hakim also narrated it (1/90) through another route, which includes Abdul-Samad bin Numan. Dhahabi said, "He is daif."