‏الحج : Hadeeth No:3209 Abu Huraira (Allaah be pleased with him) narrated It directly from Allaah's Prophet' (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) having said this: A prayer in my mosque is a thousand times more excellent than a prayer in any other mosque, except Masjid al-Haram (Mosque of the Ka'ba)....

‏الحج : Hadeeth No:3149 Ja'far b. 'Amr b. Huraith reported his father as saying: As if I am seeing Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) on the pulpit with a black turban on his head, and its two ends hanging between his shoulders. Abu Bakr (another narrator) did not make mention of:" Upon the pulpit"....