Sunan Abi Dawud 945
Touching The Pebbles During The Prayer
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حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي الأَحْوَصِ شَيْخٍ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْمَدِينَةِ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ أَبَا ذَرٍّ يَرْوِيهِ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ
إِذَا قَامَ أَحَدُكُمْ إِلَى الصَّلاَةِ فَإِنَّ الرَّحْمَةَ تُوَاجِهُهُ فَلاَ يَمْسَحِ الْحَصَى
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Musaddad
- Sufyān
- al-Zuhrī
- Abū al-Aḥwaṣ Shaykh Min Ahl al-Madīnah
- Abū Dhar Yarwīh
- al-Nabī ﷺ
The Prophet ﷺ said: When one of you gets up to pray, he must not remove pebbles, for mercy is facing him.
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Weak | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
| Zubair Ali Zai | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- Dāraquṭnī
لا يعرف له اسم ولم يرو عنه إلا الزهري يعني أبا الأحوص
machine translationHis name is not known, and no one narrated from him except al-Zuhrī, meaning Abū al-Aḥwaṣ.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 942 - الزيلعى
صحح له الحاكم في المستدرك حديثا في النهي عن الالتفات في الصلاة يعني أبا الأحوص
machine translational-Ḥākim in al-Mustadrak graded as authentic (ṣaḥīḥ) a hadith narrated by him on the prohibition of turning around in prayer, meaning Abū al-Aḥwaṣ.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 942 - Dāraquṭnī
والصواب عن الزهري سمعت أبا الأحوص يحدث سعيد بن المسيب عن أبي ذر
machine translationThe correct version is from al-Zuhrī: "I heard Abū al-Aḥwaṣ narrating to Saʿīd b. al-Musayyab, from Abū Dharr."
in سنن أبي داود, p. 942
Other narrations of this report
Sunan an-Nasa'i 1191Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 828Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 7936al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 1115al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 537
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 31 AH, or: 32 AHأَبُو ذَرٍّ الْغِفَارِيُّالصحابيسمع
- acceptable (maqbūl)أَبِي الْأَحْوَصِمقبولعن
- The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AHالزُّهْرِيِّالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبتهعن
- 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 AHسُفْيَانُثقة حافظ فقيه , إمام حجة إلا أنه تغير حفظه بأخرة , وكان ربما دلس لكن عن الثقاتنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 228 AHمُسَدَّدٌثقة حافظحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), the compiler of the Sunan and other works, one of the senior scholars.d. 275 AHأَبُو 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.
Commentaries
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