Prophet Muhammad Quotes on the Blessings of the 15th of the Month of Shaban, #2
Recorded in Nuzhat al-Majalis, Sayyidina Anas (R) related that he heard from the Prophet Muhammad (S) that Jesus (A) once passed by a mountain and there he saw a white stone. He stared upon it with awe. God revealed to His messenger, “Shall I disclose for you a thing stranger than this?” “Surely!” Jesus answered.
The stone split and from it emerged an old man with a green walking stick in his hand, and pointing to a grape vine he said, “I get my sustenance from here.” Jesus (A) asked him, “How long have you been busy worshipping God in this stone?” The man replied, “For four hundred years.” Jesus (A) said to God, “I think there is no one else that can worship as he does.” God revealed, “Two cycles (raka’) of prayer by one from the nation of My Beloved Prophet (S) on the 15th night of the month of Shaban are better than this four hundred years of worship.”
