{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/bukhari/bh2/bh2_203.htm","path":"isl/bukhari/bh2/bh2_203.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/bukhari/bh2/bh2_203.htm","text":"Narrated Anas bin Sirin:\nWe went to receive Anas bin Malik when he returned from Sham and met him at a place called 'Ain-at-Tamr. I saw him praying riding the donkey, with his face to this direction, i.e. to the left of the Qibla. I said to him, \"I have seen you offering the prayer in a direction other than that of the Qibla.\" He replied, \"If I had not seen Allah's Apostle doing it, I would not have done it.\"","title":"2:204: Anas bin Sirin: We went to receive Anas bin Malik when he returned from Sham and met ...","type":"page"}