Volume 1, Book 8, Number 397:
Narrated ‘Abdullah bin ‘Umar:
While the people were offering the Fajr prayer at Quba (near Medina), someone came to them and
said: “It has been revealed to Allah’s Apostle tonight, and he has been ordered to pray facing the
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Ka’ba.” So turn your faces to the Ka’ba. Those people were facing Sham (Jerusalem) so they turned
their faces towards Ka’ba (at Mecca).