المعنى
How long did the Prophet (ﷺ) pray towards Jerusalem before changing Qiblah?
الجواب
Imām Ibn al-Jawzī (d. 597/1201) summarized the scholars' opinions in his book "Zād al-Masīr" as follows:
- Sixteen or seventeen months. [Al-Barāʾ ibn ʿĀzib]
- Seventeen months. [Ibn ʿAbbās]
- Thirteen months. [Muʿādh ibn Jabal]
- Nine or ten months. [Anas ibn Mālik]
- Sixteen months. [via Qatādah]
- Eighteen months. [via Qatādah]

