Sunan Abi Dawud 1201

Translation

I asked Anas b. Malik about the shortening of the prayer (while travelling). He said: When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ went out on a journey of three miles or three farsakh (the narrator Shu'bah doubted), he used to pray two rak'ahs.

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What scholars said about it

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• Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

  هو أصح حديث ورد في ذلك وأصرحه

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 1199
• Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

  أصح حديث ورد في بيان مسافة القصر وأصرحه

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 1199

Other narrations of this report

Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 8203Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 8206Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 8213Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 4334Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 4335Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 4338

Narrators

1. 1
   Anas b. Mālik

   a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AH
   أَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهور
   سألت
2. 2
   Yaḥyá b. Yazīd al-Hunāʾī

   acceptable (maqbūl)d. between 131 and 140 AH
   يَحْيَى بْنِ يَزِيدَ الْهُنَائِيِّمقبول
   عن
3. 3
   Shuʿbah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AH
   شُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقن
   نا
4. 4
   Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar

   Trustworthy (thiqah), his book was sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb), except that he had some heedlessness (ghaflah)d. 192 AH or 193 AH or 194 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍثقة صحيح الكتاب إلا أن فيه غفلة
   نا
5. 5
   Muḥammad b. Bashshār

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 252 AH
   ابْنُ بَشَّارٍثقة
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), the compiler of the Sunan and other works, one of the senior scholars.d. 275 AH
   أَبُو دَاوُدَ السِّجِسْتَانِيُّثقة ، حافظ , مصنف السنن وغيرها ، من كبار العلماء

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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.