Sunan Abi Dawud 747

Translation

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ taught us how to pray. He then uttered the takbir (Allah is most great) and raised his hands; when he bowed, he joined his hands and placed them between his knees. When this (report) reached Sa'd, he said: My brother said truly. We used to do this; then we were later on commanded to do this, that is, to place the hands on the knees.

Notes

• يَعْنِي الإِمْسَاكَ عَلَى الرُّكْبَتَيْنِ

  machine translationThat is, gripping the knees (with the hands). Report a problem

• قَالَ فَبَلَغَ ذَلِكَ سَعْدًا فَقَالَ صَدَقَ أَخِي قَدْ كُنَّا نَفْعَلُ هَذَا ثُمَّ أُمِرْنَا بِهَذَا يَعْنِي

  machine translationHe said: This reached Saʿd, and he said: "My brother spoke the truth. We used to do this, then we were commanded to do this," meaning: Report a problem

Grades by grader

What scholars said about it

In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.

• Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī

  حديث رواه سفيان الثوري عن عاصم بن كليب عن عبد الرحمن بن الأسود عن علقمة عن عبد الله أن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قام فكبر فرفع يديه ثم لم يعد هذا خطأ يقال وهم فيه الثوري فقد رواه جماعة عن عاصم وقالوا كلهم إن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم افتتح فرفع يديه ثم ركع فطبق وجعلهما بين ركبتيه ولم يقل أحد ما روى الثوري

  machine translationA hadith narrated by Sufyān al-Thawrī from ʿĀṣim b. Kulayb, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. al-Aswad, from ʿAlqamah, from ʿAbdullāh: that the Prophet ﷺ stood and said the takbīr and raised his hands, then did not repeat it. This is an error; it is said that al-Thawrī made a mistake (wahm) in it. A group narrated it from ʿĀṣim, and all of them said that the Prophet ﷺ began the prayer and raised his hands, then bowed, and joined his palms together (ṭabbaqa) and placed them between his knees. No one said what al-Thawrī narrated. Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 745
• al-Bukhari

  هذا هو المحفوظ عند أهل النظر من حديث عبد الله بن مسعود

  machine translationThis is the preserved (maḥfūẓ) version according to the people of discernment from the hadith of ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd. Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 745

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Abi Dawud 728Sahih Ibn Hibban 1945al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 17707Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 2556Sunan al-Daraqutni 1135al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 693al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 955

Narrators

1. 1
   Saʿd b. Abū Waqqāṣ

   One of the Ten (promised Paradise), and the first to shoot an arrow in the path of Godd. 50 AH or 51 AH or 54 AH, also said: 56 AH, also said: 57 AH, also said: 58 AH. And the second is better known
   سَعْد بْن أَبِي وَقَّاصأحد العشرة ، وأول من رمى بسهم في سبيل الله
   قال
2. 2
   ʿAlqamah b. Qays al-Nakhaʿī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), firm (thabt), jurist, devout worshipperd. 61 AH, or 62 AH, or 65 AH, or 72 AH, or 73 AH, also said: 63 AH
   عَلْقَمَةَثقة ثبت فقيه عابد
   عن
3. 3
   ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. al-Aswad al-Nakhaʿī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 98 AH, or: 99 AH
   عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ الْأَسْوَدِثقة
   عن
4. 4
   ʿĀṣim b. Kulayb

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. 137 AH
   عَاصِمِ بْنِ كُلَيْبٍصدوق
   عن
5. 5
   ʿAbdullāh b. Idrīs

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid)d. 191 AH, or 192 AH
   ابْنُ إِدْرِيسَثقة . فقيه عابد
   نا
6. 6
   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
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

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.