Sunan Abi Dawud 730

Translation

I am one among you who is more informed of the way the Messenger of Allah ﷺ prayed. They said: Why, By Allah, you did not follow him more than us, nor did you remain in his company longer than us? He said: Yes. They said: Then describe (how the Prophet prayed). He said: When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ stood up to pray, he raised his hands so as to bring them opposite his shoulders, and uttered the takbir (Allah is the most great), until every bone rested in its place properly: then re recited (some verses from the Quran); then he uttered the takbir (Allah is most great), raising his hands so as to bring them opposite his shoulders; then he bowed; placing the palms of his hands on his knees and keeping himself straight, neither raising nor lowering his head; then raised his head saying: “Allah listens to him who praise Him”; then raised his hands so as to bring them exactly opposite to his shoulders; then uttered: “Allah is most great”; then lowered himself to the ground (in prostration), keeping his arms away from his sides; then raised his head, bent his left foot and sat on it, and opened the toes when he prostrated: then he uttered: “Allah is most great”; then raised his head, bent his left foot and sat on it so that every bone returned to its place properly; then he did the same in the second (rak’ah). At the end of the two Rak’ahs he stood up and uttered the takbir (Allah is most great), raising his hands so as to bring them opposite to his shoulders; then he bowed, placing the palms of his hands on his knees and keeping himself straight, neither raising or lowering his head: then raised his head saying: “Allah listens to him who praises Him”; then raised his hands so as to bring them exactly opposite his shoulders; then uttered: “Allah is most great”; then lowered himself to the ground (in prostration), keeping his arms away from his sides; then raised his head, bent his left foot and sat on it, and opened the toes when he prostrated himself; then he prostrated; then uttered: “Allah is most great”; then raised his head, bent his left foot and sat on it so that every bone returned to its place properly; then he did the same in the second (rak’ah). At the end of two rak’ahs he stood up and uttered the takbir (Allah is most great), raising his hands so as to bring them opposite to his shoulders in the way he had uttered the Takbir (Allah is most great) at the beginning of the prayer; then he did that in the remainder of his prayer; and after prostration which if followed by the taslim (salutation) he out his left foot and sat on his left hip. They said: You have spoken the truth. This is how he(peace be upon him) used to pray.

Notes

• قَالُوا صَدَقْتَ هَكَذَا كَانَ يُصَلِّي صلى الله عليه وسلم

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• Abū Zakariyyā Yaḥyá b. Sharaf al-Nawawī

  أسانيد صحيحة

  machine translationThe chains of transmission are sound (ṣaḥīḥ). Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 727
• Taḥāwī

  محمد هذا لم يدرك أبا قتادة على الصحيح

  machine translationThis Muḥammad did not meet Abū Qatādah, according to the sound view. Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 727
• M. ibn Ḥibbān al-Bustī

  سمع هذا الخبر محمد بن عمرو بن عطاء عن أبي حميد وسمع من عباس بن سهل عن أبيه قال فالطريقان جميعا محفوظان ومتناهما متباينان وقد يتوهم غير المتبحر في صناعة الحديث أن خبر أبي حميد معلول وليس كذلك

  machine translationMuḥammad b. ʿAmr b. ʿAṭāʾ heard this report from Abū Ḥumayd, and he also heard it from ʿAbbās b. Sahl from his father. He said: So both routes are preserved (maḥfūẓ), and their texts differ. Someone who is not well versed in the craft of hadith may imagine that the report of Abū Ḥumayd is defective, but that is not the case. Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 727
• Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī

  أنكر سماع محمد بن عمرو بن عطاء لهذا الحديث من أبي حميد وقال بينهما رجل

  machine translationHe denied that Muḥammad b. ʿAmr b. ʿAṭāʾ heard this hadith from Abū Ḥumayd, and said that there was a man between them. Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 727

Same hadith, other wordings

• Jami at-Tirmidzi 270كَانَ إِذَا سَجَدَ أَمْكَنَ أَنْفَهُ وَجَبْهَتَهُ مِنَ الأَرْضِ وَنَحَّى يَدَيْهِ عَنْ جَنْبَيْهِ وَوَضَعَ كَفَّيْهِ حَذْوَ مَنْكِبَيْهِ
• Jami at-Tirmidzi 293أَنَا أَعْلَمُكُمْ بِصَلاَةِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ جَلَسَ يَعْنِي لِلتَّشَهُّدِ فَافْتَرَشَ رِجْلَهُ الْيُسْرَى وَأَقْبَلَ بِصَدْرِ الْيُمْنَى عَلَى قِبْلَتِهِ وَوَضَعَ كَفَّهُ الْيُمْنَى عَلَى رُكْبَتِهِ الْيُمْنَى وَكَ
• Bulughul Maram 274{ يَرْفَعُ يَدَيْهِ حَتَّى يُحَاذِيَ بِهِمَا مَنْكِبَيْهِ, ثُمَّ يُكَبِّرَ }
• Sunan Abu Dawud 743كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ إِذَا قَامَ مِنَ الرَّكْعَتَيْنِ كَبَّرَ وَرَفَعَ يَدَيْهِ
• Misykatul Mashabih 801عَن أبي حميد السَّاعِدِيّ قَالَ فِي عشرَة مِنْ أَصْحَابِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: أَنَا أَعْلَمُكُمْ بِصَلَاةِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالُوا فَاعْرِضْ. قَالَ: كَانَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى الل

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Abi Dawud 731Sunan Abi Dawud 963Sahih Ibn Hibban 1866Sahih Ibn Hibban 1876al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 19586Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 2981al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 2687al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 2775al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 2816al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 740

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Qatādah al-Anṣārī fāris Rasūl Allāh

   He took part in Uḥud and the battles after itd. al-Ḥasan b. ʿUthmān said: 40 AH, al-Wāqidī said: 54 AH, the people of Kufa reported that he died: 38 AH, al-Bukhārī mentioned him in al-Awsaṭ, among those who died between 50 AH and 60 AH
   أَبُو قَتَادَةَ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ فَارِسُ رَسُولِ اللهِشهد أحدا وما بعدها
   سمعت
2. 2
   Muḥammad b. ʿAmr b. ʿAṭāʾ

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. after 120 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُمَرِو بْنِ عَطَاءٍثقة
   أخبرني
3. 3
   ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Jaʿfar

   Truthful (ṣadūq), accused of belief in qadar (free will), and he sometimes erred (wahima)d. 153 AH
   عَبْدُ الْحَمِيدِ ، يَعْنِي : ابْنَ جَعْفَرٍصدوق رمي بالقدر ، وربما وهم
   أنا
4. 4
   Abū ʿĀṣim

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 211 AH, or: 212 AH, or: 213 AH, or: 214 AH
   أَبُو عَاصِمٍ الضَّحَّاكُ بْنُ مَخْلَدٍثقة ثبت
   نا
5. 5
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
   أَحْمَدُ بْنُ حَنْبَلٍثقة حافظ فقيه حجة
   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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