Sunan Abi Dawud 1236

Translation

We accompanied the Messenger of Allah ﷺ at Usfan, and Khalid ibn al-Walid was the chief of unbelievers. We offered the noon prayer. Thereupon, the unbelievers said: We suffered from negligence; we became careless. We should have attacked them while they were praying. Thereupon the verse was revealed, relating to the shortening of the prayer (in time of danger) between the noon and afternoon (prayer). When the time of the afternoon prayer came, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ stood facing the qiblah, and the unbelievers were standing in front of him. The people stood in a row behind the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and there was another row behind this row. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ bowed and all of them bowed. He then prostrated and also the row near him prostrated. The other people in the second row remained standing and stood guard over them. When they performed two prostrations and stood up, those who were behind them prostrated. The people in the front row near him then stepped backward taking the place of the people in the second row and the second row took the place of the first row. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ then bowed and all of them bowed together. Then he and the row near him prostrated themselves. The other people in the second row remained standing and stood guard over them. When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and the row near him (i.e. the front row) were seated, the people in the second row behind them prostrated themselves. Then all of them were seated. (He (the Prophet) then uttered the salutation upon all of them. He prayed in his manner at Usfan as well as at the territory of Banu Sulaym. Abu Dawud said: This tradition has been narrated by Ayyub and Hisham from Abu al-Zubair on the authority of Jabir to the same effect from the Prophet ﷺ. Similarly, this has been transmitted by Dawud b. Husain from 'Ikrimah, on the authority of Ibn 'Abbas. This has also been reported by 'Abd al-Malik, from 'Ata' from Jabir in like manner. This has also been narrated by Qatadah from al-Hasan from Hittan on the authority of Abu Musa in a similar way. Similarly, this has been reported by 'Ikrimah b. Khalid from Mujahid from the Prophet ﷺ. This has also been reported by Hisham b. 'Urwah from his father from the Prophet ﷺ. This is the opinion of al-Thawri.

Notes

• قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ رَوَى أَيُّوبُ وَهِشَامٌ عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ جَابِرٍ هَذَا الْمَعْنَى عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ وَكَذَلِكَ رَوَاهُ دَاوُدُ بْنُ حُصَيْنٍ عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ وَكَذَلِكَ عَبْدُ الْمَلِكِ عَنْ عَطَاءٍ عَنْ جَابِرٍ وَكَذَلِكَ قَتَادَةُ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ حِطَّانَ عَنْ أَبِي مُوسَى فِعْلَهُ وَكَذَلِكَ عِكْرِمَةُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ وَكَذَلِكَ هِشَامُ بْنُ عُرْوَةَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ وَهُوَ قَوْلُ الثَّوْرِيِّ

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• Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

  سند جيد

  machine translationA good (jayyid) chain. Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 1233
• العظيم آبادي محمد بن علي

  حديث أبي عياش إسناده صحيح

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 1233
• Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn al-Bayhaqī

  هذا إسناد صحيح

  machine translationThis chain of transmission is sound (ṣaḥīḥ). Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 1233
• Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī

  نعم هو صحيح يعني زيادة جرير فنزلت آية القصر بين الظهر والعصر

  machine translationYes, it is authentic (ṣaḥīḥ), meaning the addition of Jarīr: "Then the verse of shortening the prayer was revealed between Ẓuhr and ʿAṣr." Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 1233

Same hadith, other wordings

• Bulughul Maram 476{ أَنَّهَا كَانَتْ بِعُسْفَانَ }.

Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 16582al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 5141al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 5143al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 5713al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 6108al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 1951

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū ʿAyyāsh al-Zuraqī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. after 40 AH, al-Dhahabī said: in the time of Muʿāwiyah, after 50 AH
   أَبُو عَيَّاشٍ الزُّرَقِيُّصحابي
   عن
2. 2
   Mujāhid b. Jabr al-Makhzūmī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), an imam in Quranic exegesis and in knowledge.d. 100 AH, or 101 AH, or 102 AH, or 103 AH, or 104 AH, or 107 AH
   مُجَاهِدٍثقة ، إمام في التفسير وفي العلم
   عن
3. 3
   Manṣūr b. al-Muʿtamir

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), and he did not commit tadlīs (lā yudallis)d. 132 AH, or 133 AH
   مَنْصُورٍثقة ثبت ، وكان لا يدلس
   عن
4. 4
   Jarīr

   Trustworthy (thiqah), his book is sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb); it was said that at the end of his life he would err when narrating from memoryd. 187 AH or 188 AH
   جَرِيرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْحَمِيدِثقة صحيح الكتاب ، قيل : كان في آخر عمره يهم من حفظه
   نا
5. 5
   Saʿīd b. Manṣūr

   trustworthy (thiqah), authord. 226 AH or 227 AH or 228 AH or 229 AH
   سَعِيدُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍثقة مصنف
   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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