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Explanatory Note
The "Much-visited House" may refer to the Ka'bah although it is more likely that it refers to a house in heaven where the angels worship. An authentic hadith giving details of the Prophet's night journey to heaven quotes him as saying: "Then I was taken up to the much-visited House. Seventy thousand enter it every day and they do not return to it. It is the last thing they have to do..." [Related by al-Bukhari and Muslim.] The Prophet's statement means that the angels perform tawaf around this House, just as people do around the Ka'bah.