Sunan Abi Dawud 898

Translation

When the Prophet ﷺ prostrated himself, he kept his arms so far away from his sides that if a lamb had wanted to pass under his arms, it could have done so.

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• ابن الملقن

  هذا صحيح

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  in سنن أبي داود, p. 895

Same hadith, other wordings

• Misykatul Mashabih 890وَعَن مَيْمُونَة قَالَتْ: كَانَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ إِذَا سَجَدَ جَافَى بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ حَتَّى لَوْ أَنَّ بَهْمَةً أَرَادَتْ أَنْ تَمُرَّ تَحْتَ يَدَيْهِ مرت. هَذَا لفظ أبي دَاوُد كَمَا صَرَّحَ فِي شَرْحِ السُّنَّةِ
• Sunan Ibnu Majah 880كَانَ إِذَا سَجَدَ جَافَى يَدَيْهِ فَلَوْ أَنَّ بَهْمَةً أَرَادَتْ أَنْ تَمُرَّ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ لَمَرَّتْ
• Shahih Muslim 496كَانَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ إِذَا سَجَدَ لَوْ شَاءَتْ بَهْمَةٌ أَنْ تَمُرَّ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ لَمَرَّتْ
• Sunan an-Nasa'i 1109كَانَ إِذَا سَجَدَ جَافَى يَدَيْهِ حَتَّى لَوْ أَنَّ بَهْمَةً أَرَادَتْ أَنْ تَمُرَّ تَحْتَ يَدَيْهِ مَرَّتْ

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 762al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 21652al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 831

Narrators

1. 1
   Maymūnah bt. al-Ḥārith

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 49 AH, or: 51 AH, also said: 63 AH, also said: 66 AH
   مَيْمُونَةُ بِنْتُ الْحَارِثِصحابي
   عن
2. 2
   Yazīd b. al-Aṣamm

   It is said that he saw the Prophet ﷺ, but this is not established; and he is trustworthy (thiqah)d. 101 AH or 103 AH, or 104 AH, also said: 102 AH
   يَزِيدَ بْنِ الْأَصَمِّيقال : له رؤية ولا تثبت ، وهو ثقة
   عن
3. 3
   ʿUbayd Allāh b. ʿAbdullāh b. al-Aṣamm

   acceptable (maqbūl)
   عُبَيْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِمقبول
   عن
4. 4
   Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an imam and a proof (ḥujjah), except that his memory changed towards the end of his life; he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), but only from trustworthy narrators.d. 197 AH or 198 AH
   سُفْيَانُثقة حافظ فقيه , إمام حجة إلا أنه تغير حفظه بأخرة , وكان ربما دلس لكن عن الثقات
   نا
5. 5
   Qutaybah b. Saʿīd

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 240 AH, or: 241 AH
   قُتَيْبَةُثقة ثبت
   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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Mishkat al-Masabih 890