Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: At-Tur, Ayah 4
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(And the House frequented) and Allah swore by the House which is filled with the angels. This House is in the sixth heaven opposite to the Ka'bah. There is between it and the Ka'bah, through the borderline of the seventh earth, a Sacred Precinct which is visited every single day by 70,000 angels who never return to visit it. This is the House that Adam built and was raised to the seventh heaven because of the flood, it is called al-dirah and is opposite of the Ka'bah.
Related Hadiths
“Goodness comes more quickly to a house where there are frequent guests than a knife to camel’s hump.”
I was in the house of 'Abdullah b. Mas'ud and the house was fully packed that a red storm blew in Kufah.
“A house in which there are no dates, its people will go hungry.”
“A house in which there are no dates is like a house in which there is no food.”
I spent a night in the house of my mother's sister Maimuna, and the rest of the hadith is the same as narrated above.
"Omens are in houses, women and horses."
Al-Jalalayn Commentary
By the greatly frequented House — which is located in the third or the sixth or the seventh heaven directly above the Ka‘ba; it is visited every day by seventy thousand angels circumambulating it and performing prayers around it and never returning to it;