Musnad Ahmad 10198

Translation

✧ Every prayer in which the Opening of the Book is not recited is deficient, deficient, deficient, not complete.

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What scholars said about it

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• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  الحديث صحيح للعلاء عن أبيه وعن أبي السائب جميعا عن أبي هريرة قد جمعهما عنه أبو أويس وغيره

  machine translationThe hadith is authentic (ṣaḥīḥ) through al-ʿAlāʾ, from his father and from Abū al-Sāʾib together, from Abū Hurayrah; Abū Uways and others have combined the two of them from him. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 10285

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 756Sahih Muslim 394aSahih Muslim 394cSunan Abi Dawud 820Jami' at-Tirmidhi 238Jami' at-Tirmidhi 247

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī

   The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
   أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
   عن
2. 2
   his father

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 101 and 110 AH
   أَبِيهِثقة
   عن
3. 3
   al-ʿAlāʾ b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Ḥuraqī

   truthful (ṣadūq), who sometimes made mistakes (rubbamā wahima)d. 130-odd, or: 132 AH, or: 139 AH
   الْعَلَاءِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِصدوق ربما وهم
   عن
4. 4
   Shuʿbah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AH
   شُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقن
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Wakīʿ b. al-Jarrāḥ

   Trustworthy, a memorizer, devout (thiqah ḥāfiẓ ʿābid)d. 196 AH, or 197 AH, or 198 AH
   وَكِيعٌثقة حافظ عابد
   حدثنا
6. 6
   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
   أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

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