Sunan Abi Dawud 149

Translation

I was in the company of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ in the expedition of Tabuk. He abandoned the main road before the dawn prayer, and I also did the same along with him. The Prophet ﷺ made his camel kneel down and (went to ) relieve himself. He then came back and I poured water upon his hands from the skin-vessel. He then washed his hands and face. He tried to get his forearms out (of the gown), but the sleeves of the gown were too narrow, so he entered back both his hands, and brought them out from beneath the gown. He washed his forearms up to the elbows and wiped his head and wiped over his socks.80 He then mounted (his camel) and we began to proceed until we found people offering the prayer. They brought forward ‘Abd al-Rahman b. ‘Awf who was leading them in prayer. The Prophet ﷺ stood in the row side by side with other Muslims. He performed the second rak’ah of the prayer behind ‘Abd al-Rahman b. ‘Awf. Then ‘Abd al-Rahman uttered salutation. The Prophet ﷺ stood to perform the remaining rak’ah of the prayer. The Muslims were alarmed. They began to utter tasbih (Subhan Allah) presuming that they had offered prayer before the Prophet ﷺ had done. When he uttered the salutation (i.e. finished his prayer), he said: You were right, or (he said) you did well.

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Sunan Abi Dawud 172Jami' at-Tirmidhi 61Sunan an-Nasa'i 133Musnad Ahmad 22966Sahih Ibn Hibban 1708Sunan al-Daraqutni 746

Narrators

1. 1
   al-Mughīrah b. Shuʿbah

   A well-known Companion (ṣaḥābī), who accepted Islam before al-Ḥudaybiyyah.d. 49 AH, or: 50 AH, and al-Khaṭīb reported consensus on that, or: 56 AH, in Tahdhīb al-Kamāl: some said 36 AH, 58 AH, and both are errors
   المُغِيرَة بن شُعْبَةصحابي مشهور ، أسلم قبل الحديبية
   سمع
2. 2
   ʿUrwah b. al-Mughīrah b. Shuʿbah

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. after 90 AH
   عُرْوَةَ بْنَ الْمُغِيرَةِ بْنِ شُعْبَةَثقة
   أخبره
3. 3
   ʿAbbād b. Ziyād

   Deemed trustworthy by Ibn Ḥibbānd. 100 AH
   عَبَّادُ بْنُ زِيَادٍوثقه : ابن حبان
   حدثني
4. 4
   al-Zuhrī

   The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AH
   ابْنِ شِهَابٍالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبته
   عن
5. 5
   Yūnus

   Trustworthy (thiqah), except that in his narration from al-Zuhrī there are slight errors (awhām), and in his narration from others there is error (khaṭaʾ)d. Ibn Saʿd said: 152 AH, al-Bukhārī and others: 159 AH (and it is the correct view), Muḥammad b. ʿAzīz said: 160 AH
   يُونُسُ بْنُ يَزِيدَثقة ، إلا أن في روايته عن الزهري وهما قليلا ، وفي غير الزهري خطأ
   أخبرني
6. 6
   ʿAbdullāh b. Wahb al-Miṣrī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), devout (ʿābid)d. 197 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ وَهْبٍثقة حافظ ، عابد
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Aḥmad b. Ṣāliḥ

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 248 AH
   أَحْمَدُ بْنُ صَالِحٍثقة حافظ
   حدثنا
8. 8
   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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