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Is it true what one scholar mentioned, that Allah commanded David (peace be upon him) to build Al-Aqsa Mosque in a place that was a house belonging to a Jew, and David bought it from him, and did Allah command David to do that?

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Al-Masjid Al-Aqsa is the second mosque to be built on Earth after Al-Masjid Al-Haram, and there were forty years between them, as stated in Sahih Muslim on the authority of Abu Dharr.

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