Sunan Abi Dawud 1272
The Prayer Before 'Asr
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حَدَّثَنَا حَفْصُ بْنُ عُمَرَ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ ضَمْرَةَ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَمُ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ
كَانَ يُصَلِّي قَبْلَ الْعَصْرِ رَكْعَتَيْنِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Ḥafṣ b. ʿUmar
- Shuʿbah
- Abū Isḥāq
- ʿĀṣim b. Ḍamrah
- ʿAlī ʿAlayh al-Salām
- al-Nabī ﷺ
That the Prophet ﷺ used to pray two rak'ahs before the 'Asr prayer.
Grades by grader
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
|---|---|---|
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
| Zubair Ali Zai | Isnaad Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- Abū Zakariyyā Yaḥyá b. Sharaf al-Nawawī
إسناد صحيح
machine translationThe chain of transmission is authentic (ṣaḥīḥ).
in سنن أبي داود, p. 1269 - ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Mudhirī
عاصم بن ضمرة وثقه يحيى بن معين وغيره وتكلم فيه غير واحد
machine translationʿĀṣim b. Ḍamrah was declared trustworthy (thiqah) by Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn and others, and more than one scholar spoke against him.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 1269
Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 1172وَعَنْ عَلِيٍّ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ: كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يُصَلِّي قبل الْعَصْر رَكْعَتَيْنِ. رَوَاهُ أَبُو دَاوُد
- Riyadhus Shalihin 1121أن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم كان يصلي قبل العصر ركعتين."
Other narrations of this report
al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 21736al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 929
Narrators
- One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرةعن
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 74 AHعَاصِمِ بْنِ ضَمْرَةَصدوقعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir), devout (ʿābid); his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his lifed. Ibn ʿUyaynah said 126 AH, Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd said 127 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said 128 AH, ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said 129 AH, Ibn Maʿīn said 132 AHأَبِي إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخرهعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AHشُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقننا
- Trustworthy and firm (thiqah thabt); he was criticized for taking payment for teaching hadithd. 225 AHحَفْصُ بْنُ عُمَرَثقة ثبت ، عيب بأخذ الأجرة على الحديثحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), the compiler of the Sunan and other works, one of the senior scholars.d. 275 AHأَبُو دَاوُدَ السِّجِسْتَانِيُّثقة ، حافظ , مصنف السنن وغيرها ، من كبار العلماء
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.
Commentaries
Dalīl al-Fāliḥīn (Ibn ʿAllān)
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd (Ashraf)
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