Sunan Abi Dawud 951
The Prayer Of The One Sitting Down
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حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى عَنْ حُسَيْنٍ الْمُعَلِّمِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ بُرَيْدَةَ عَنْ عِمْرَانَ بْنِ حُصَيْنٍ
أَنَّهُ سَأَلَ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ عَنْ صَلاَةِ الرَّجُلِ قَاعِدًا فَقَالَ صَلاَتُهُ قَائِمًا أَفْضَلُ مِنْ صَلاَتِهِ قَاعِدًا وَصَلاَتُهُ قَاعِدًا عَلَى النِّصْفِ مِنْ صَلاَتِهِ قَائِمًا وَصَلاَتُهُ نَائِمًا عَلَى النِّصْفِ مِنْ صَلاَتِهِ قَاعِدًا
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Musaddad
- Yaḥyá
- Ḥusayn al-Muʿallim
- ʿAbdullāh b. Buraydah
- ʿImrān b. Ḥuṣayn
‘Imran b. Hussain asked the prophet ﷺ about the prayer a man offers in sitting condition. He replied: his prayer in standing condition is better than his prayer in sitting condition, and his prayer in sitting condition is half the prayer he offers in standing condition, and his prayer in lying condition is half the prayer he offers in sitting condition.
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Soundin صحيح سنن أبي داود, p. 951 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Zubair Ali Zai | Sahih Bukhari (1115) | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr
هو حديث لم يروه إلا حسين المعلم وهو حسين بن ذكوان عن عبد الله بن بريدة عن عمران بن حصين وقد اختلف أيضا على حسين المعلم في إسناده ولفظه اختلافا يوجب التوقف عنه وإن صح حديث حسين عن ابن بريدة عن عمران بن حصين هذا فلا أدري ما وجهه
machine translationThis is a hadith that only Ḥusayn al-Muʿallim narrated, who is Ḥusayn b. Dhakwān, from ʿAbdullāh b. Buraydah, from ʿImrān b. Ḥuṣayn. There is also disagreement about Ḥusayn al-Muʿallim concerning its chain and its wording, a disagreement that requires withholding judgement on it. And if the hadith of Ḥusayn from Ibn Buraydah from ʿImrān b. Ḥuṣayn is authentic, then I do not know what its explanation is.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 948 - ابن اللجام علي بن خلف القرطبي
قوله من صلى نائما فله نصف أجر القاعد فلا يصح معناه عند العلماء لأنهم مجمعون على أن النافلة لا يصليها القادر على القيام إيماء وإنما دخل الوهم على ناقل الحديث
machine translationAs for his statement, "Whoever prays lying down will have half the reward of the one who prays sitting," its meaning is not sound according to the scholars, because they are unanimously agreed that a person who is able to stand may not pray a voluntary prayer by gesturing. Rather, the error entered through the one who transmitted the hadith.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 948
Other narrations of this report
Sunan an-Nasa'i 1660al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 16709al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 7123Musnad al-Bazzar 6189al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 1366al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 1368
Narrators
- embraced Islam in the year of Khaybar, accompanied the Prophet ﷺ, and was virtuousd. 52 AH, Ibn Mandah related a view that he died in the year (53) AHعِمْرَان بْن حُصَيْن بْن عُبَيْد بْن خَلَف الْخُزَاعِيّأسلم عام خيبر وصحب وكان فاضلاعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 105 AH, or 115 AHعَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ بُرَيْدَةَثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), though he sometimes erred (rubbamā wahima)d. 145 AHحُسَيْنٍ الْمُعَلِّمِثقة ، ربما وهمعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam and exemplar (qudwah)d. 198 AHيَحْيَىثقة متقن حافظ ، إمام قدوةنا
- 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
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Commentaries
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