Sunan Abi Dawud 662

Translation

the Messenger of Allah ﷺ paid attention to the people and said three times; straighten your rows (in prayer); by Allah, you must straighten your rows, or Allah will certainly put your faces in contrary directions. I then saw that every person stood in prayer keeping his shoulder close to that of the other, and his knee close to that of the other, and his ankle close to that of the other.

Notes

• قَالَ فَرَأَيْتُ الرَّجُلَ يُلْزِقُ مَنْكِبَهُ بِمَنْكِبِ صَاحِبِهِ وَرُكْبَتَهُ بِرُكْبَةِ صَاحِبِهِ وَكَعْبَهُ بِكَعْبِهِ

  machine translationHe said: "And I saw the man pressing his shoulder against the shoulder of his companion, his knee against the knee of his companion, and his ankle against his ankle." Report a problem

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What scholars said about it

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• ابن الملقن

  هذا الحديث صحيح

  machine translationThis hadith is authentic (ṣaḥīḥ). Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 659
• Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī

  رواه أبو داود والبيهقي بأسانيد جيدة والبخاري في صحيحه تعليقا

  machine translationAbū Dāwūd and al-Bayhaqī narrated it with good chains, and al-Bukhārī in his Ṣaḥīḥ as a suspended report (taʿlīqan). Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 659
• Shuayb al-Arnaut

  صحيح، إلا أن قوله: "وركبته بركبته" قد انفرد به أبو القاسم الجدلي – وهو حسين بن الحارث - حسن الحديث ينحط عن رتبة الثقة. ولقول النعمان: "فرأيت الرجل يلزق منكبه بمنكب صاحبه ... " شاهد

  machine translationAuthentic (ṣaḥīḥ), except that the phrase "his knee against his knee" is reported solely by Abū al-Qāsim al-Jadalī, who is Ḥusayn b. al-Ḥārith, whose hadith is good (ḥasan) but falls below the rank of the trustworthy (thiqah). And there is a supporting report (shāhid) for the saying of al-Nuʿmān: "I saw the man pressing his shoulder against the shoulder of his companion..." Report a problem

  in تخريج سنن أبي داود, p. 662

Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 26812al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 10290al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 19392al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 21709al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 6664Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 11742

Narrators

1. 1
   al-Nuʿmān b. Bashīr al-Anṣārī

   He and his parents had companionship with the Prophet (ṣuḥbah)d. 60 AH, or: 64 AH, or: 65 AH, or: 66 AH
   النُّعْمَان بْن بَشِير الْأَنْصَارِيّله ولأبويه صحبة
   سمعت
2. 2
   Abū al-Qāsim al-Jadalī

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. between 111 AH and 130 AH
   أَبِي الْقَاسِمِ الْجَدَلِيِّصدوق
   عن
3. 3
   Zakariyyā

   trustworthy (thiqah), but he used to practice tadlīs (concealment of defects in the chain)d. 147 AH, or: 148 AH, or: 149 AH
   زَكَرِيَّا بْنِ أَبِي زَائِدَةَثقة ، وكان يدلس
   عن
4. 4
   Wakīʿ b. al-Jarrāḥ

   Trustworthy, a memorizer, devout (thiqah ḥāfiẓ ʿābid)d. 196 AH, or 197 AH, or 198 AH
   وَكِيعٌثقة حافظ عابد
   حدثنا
5. 5
   ʿUthmān b. Abī Shaybah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a renowned memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), though he had some errors (awhām). It is also said: he did not memorize the Qurʾānd. 239 AH
   عُثْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَثقة حافظ شهير ، وله أوهام . وقيل : كان لا يحفظ القرآن
   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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