695 - وَقَالَ اَلنَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اَللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ: «لَمَّا أُسْرِيَ بِي مَرَرْتُ بِمَوْضِعِ مَسْجِدِ اَلْكُوفَةِ وَ أَنَا عَلَى اَلْبُرَاقِ وَ مَعِي جَبْرَئِيلُ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ فَقَالَ لِي يَا مُحَمَّدُ اِنْزِلْ فَصَلِّ فِي هَذَا اَلْمَكَانِ قَالَ فَنَزَلْتُ فَصَلَّيْتُ فَقُلْتُ يَا جَبْرَئِيلُ أَيُّ شَيْءٍ هَذَا اَلْمَوْضِعُ قَالَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ هَذِهِ كُوفَانُ وَ هَذَا مَسْجِدُهَا أَمَّا أَنَا فَقَدْ رَأَيْتُهَا عِشْرِينَ مَرَّةً خَرَاباً وَ عِشْرِينَ مَرَّةً عُمْرَاناً بَيْنَ كُلِّ مَرَّتَيْنِ خَمْسُمِائَةِ سَنَةٍ.
Hadith.695 - The Prophet, said:
"When I was taken on the Night Journey (Isra'), I passed by the site of the Mosque of Kufa while I was on al-Buraq, with Archangel Jibril 
accompanying me.
Archangel Jibril said to me, 'O’ Muhammad, descend and pray at this place.'
So, I descended and prayed.
Then I asked: 'O’ Archangel Jibril , what is this place?'
Archangel Jibril said: 'O’ Muhammad, this is Kufa, and this is its mosque. As for me, I have seen it twenty times in a state of ruin and twenty times in a state of prosperity, with five hundred years between each state.'"
