The Night Journey

The matter here is the night journey from Makkah Mukarramah to Jerusalem. Many aḥādīth relate the account at far greater length; and there are allusions to it — not clear-cut and wholly explicit, but allusions certainly — in Sūrat al-Najm:

Wa-l-najmi idhā hawā. Mā ḍalla ṣāḥibukum wa mā ghawā — which will be looked at, in shāʾ Allāh, when those last parts of the Qur'an are reached.

There are two parts to this miraculous journey of the Prophet (peace be upon him). The first is that he was taken upon the Burāq with Jibrīl (peace be upon him). He was taken from the Masjid al-Ḥarām, which is in Makkah. He was sleeping; there is a long account of exactly where he was. And then the matter of the angels, and his heart being washed and cleansed another time. And then he was taken upon this night journey, stopping at a few places along the way.

And then he comes to Jerusalem. There he sees what he is to see. He meets the other prophets. In Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim there is a whole account of his leading the other anbiyāʾ and prophets in prayer. And after that they go on. There is a whole discussion too of exactly where they had tied the Burāq, and there is a significance to that still if one goes there today: the Burāq wall is there. And then he goes up to the heavens.