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Sunan Abi Dawud 681

The Position That The Imam Should Have In Relation To The Rows

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حَدَّثَنَا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ مُسَافِرٍ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي فُدَيْكٍ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ بَشِيرِ بْنِ خَلاَّدٍ عَنْ أُمِّهِ أَنَّهَا دَخَلَتْ عَلَى مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ كَعْبٍ الْقُرَظِيِّ فَسَمِعَتْهُ يَقُولُ حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ

وَسِّطُوا الإِمَامَ وَسُدُّوا الْخَلَلَ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Jaʿfar b. Musāfir
  2. Ibn Abū Fudayk
  3. Yaḥyá b. Bashīr b. Khalāad
  4. his mother
  5. Dakhalat
  6. Muḥammad b. Kaʿb al-Quraẓī Fasamiʿath
  7. Abū Hurayrah
  8. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

The Prophet ﷺ said: Have the imam in the centre and close up the gaps.

Grades by grader

Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-HamidDaiffawazahmed0
Zubair Ali ZaiDaiffawazahmed0
al-AlbaniDaiffawazahmed0

Same hadith, other wordings

  • Misykatul Mashabih 1103وَعَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «تَوَسَّطُوا الْإِمَامَ وَسُدُّوا الْخَلَلَ». رَوَاهُ أَبُو دَاوُد
  • Riyadhus Shalihin 1096"وسطوا الإمام، وسدوا الخلل"

Other narrations of this report

Narrators

  1. The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
    أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
    حدثني
  2. trustworthy (thiqah), a scholard. 108 AH, or 117 AH, or 118 AH, or 119 AH, or 120 AH, or 129 AH, also said: 116 AH
    مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ كَعْبٍ الْقُرَظِيِّثقة عالم
    سمعت
  3. أُمِّهِمجهولة
    عن
  4. unknown in condition (mastūr)
    يَحْيَى بْنِ بَشِيرِ بْنِ خَلَّادٍمستور
    عن
  5. truthful (ṣadūq)d. al-Bukhārī said: 200 AH, Muḥammad b. Saʿd said: 199 AH, he said elsewhere: 201 AH
    ابْنُ أَبِي فُدَيْكٍصدوق
    حدثنا
  6. truthful (ṣadūq), who sometimes erredd. 254 AH
    جَعْفَرُ بْنُ مُسَافِرٍصدوق ربما أخطأ
    حدثنا
  7. 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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Commentaries

Sharḥ Riyad al-Salihin (Ibn al-ʿUthaymin)
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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