Importance of Praying in the Masjid to the Prophet

Here is a Ṣaḥīḥ (Authentic) ḥadīth about how important praying in the masjid was to the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم).

وَ عَنْهُ عَنِ النَّضْرِ عَنِ ابْنِ سِنَانٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ سَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ إِنَّ أُنَاساً كَانُوا عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص أَبْطَئُوا عَنِ الصَّلَاةِ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لَيُوشِكُ قَوْمٌ يَدَعُونَ الصَّلَاةَ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ أَنْ نَأْمُرَ بِحَطَبٍ فَيُوضَعَ عَلَى أَبْوَابِهِمْ فَتُوقَدَ عَلَيْهِمْ نَارٌ فَتُحْرَقَ عَلَيْهِمْ بُيُوتُهُمْ

From Ibn Sinān from Abī `Abd Allāh (عليه السلام) said he heard him say: “Verily, people upon the covenant of the Messenger of Allāh (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) slacked from praying in the masjid. So the Messenger of Allāh (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) said: ‘People are on the verge of leaving praying in the masjid, so we will command firewood to be placed on their doors and burn fire upon them, and set fire over their houses (to those who don’t pray in the masjid)”

Source:

1.     Al-Tūsī, Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām, 10 vols., (Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah, 4^th Edition, 1407 AH), vol. 3, pg. 25, hadeeth # 6

Grading:

1.     Al-Majlisī said this hadeeth is Ṣaḥīḥ (Authentic)
à Milādh al-Akhyār, 16 vols., (Qum: Maktabah Ayatollah al-Mar`ashī al-Najafī, 1406 AH), vol. 4, pg. 692