Sunan Abi Dawud 543

Translation

we stood for praying at Mina when the Imam had not come out. Some of us sat down (and I too). An old man from Kufah said to me: Why did you down? I said: Ibn Buraidah, this is Sumud (i.e., waiting for the Imam in the standing condition). The old man then narrated a tradition from ‘Abd al-Rahman b. ‘Awaajah on the authority of al-Bara’ b. ‘Azib: We would stand in rows during the time of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ for a long time before he pronounced Takbir. He further said; Allah, the Exalted and Mighty, sends blessings and the angles invoke blessings for those who are nearer to the front rows. No step is more liking to Allah than a step which one takes to join the row (of the prayer).

Notes

• حَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ عَوْسَجَةَ عَنِ الْبَرَاءِ بْنِ عَازِبٍ قَالَ كُنَّا نَقُومُ فِي الصُّفُوفِ عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ طَوِيلاً قَبْلَ أَنْ يُكَبِّرَ قَالَ وَقَالَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ وَمَلاَئِكَتَهُ يُصَلُّونَ عَلَى الَّذِينَ يَلُونَ الصُّفُوفَ الأُوَلَ وَمَا مِنْ خَطْوَةٍ أَحَبَّ إِلَى اللَّهِ مِنْ خَطْوَةٍ يَمْشِيهَا يَصِلُ بِهَا صَفًّا

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What scholars said about it

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• Nūr al-Dīn al-Sindī

  إسناد الحديث لا يخلو عن جهالة إذ الشيخ غير معلوم

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 540
• Shuayb al-Arnaut

  ضعيف بهذا السياق وقوله: "إن الله وملائكته يصلون على الذين يلون الصفوف الأول" [روي] بإسناد صحيح. ولقوله: "ما من خطوة ... " شاهد

  in تخريج سنن أبي داود, p. 543

Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 18621Sahih Ibn Hibban 2161al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 741al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 5277al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 2122

Narrators

1. 1
   al-Barāʾ b. ʿĀzib al-Awsī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 72 AH, also said 71 AH
   الْبَرَاء بْن عَازِب الْأَوْسِيّصحابي
   عن
2. 2
   ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAwsajah

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 82 AH, or 83 AH, 86 AH
   عبد الرحمن بن عوسجة النهميثقة
   حدثني
3. 3
   Al-Shaykh
   الشيخ
   قال لي
4. 4
   Kahmas

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 149 AH
   كَهْمَسٍثقة
   عن
5. 5
   ʿAwn b. Kahmas

   acceptable (maqbūl)d. 200 AH
   عَوْنُ بْنُ كَهْمَسٍمقبول
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Aḥmad b. ʿAbdullāh al-Sadūsī

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. 252 AH
   أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ سُوَيْدِ بْنِ مَنْجُوفٍ السَّدُوسِيُّصدوق
   حدثنا
7. 7
   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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