Musnad Ahmad 11499

Translation

✧ He asked Abu Sa'id al-Khudri: "One of us prays not knowing how much he has prayed?" He said: The Messenger of God ﷺ said: "When one of you prays and does not know how much he has prayed, let him prostrate twice. Then if Satan comes to him and says, 'You have broken your ablution,' let him say, 'You lie,' unless he finds a smell with his nose or a sound with his ear."

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Same hadith, other wordings

• Musnad Ahmad 11500إِذَا صَلَّى أَحَدُكُمْ فَذَكَرَ مَعْنَاهُ
• Musnad Ahmad 11501أَخْبَرَنِي عِيَاضُ بْنُ هِلَالٍ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ أَبَا سَعِيدٍ؛ فَذَكَرَ مَعْنَاهُ

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 137Sunan Abi Dawud 1029

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī

   He and his father were Companions (ṣuḥbah).d. 63 AH, or 64 AH, or 65 AH, or 74 AH
   أَبُو سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيُّله ولأبيه صحبة
   سأل
2. 2
   Hilāl b. ʿIyāḍ

   unknown (majhūl)
   عِيَاضٍمجهول
   عن
3. 3
   Yaḥyá b. Abī Kathīr

   trustworthy and reliable (thiqah thabt), but he practiced tadlīs and irsāld. 129 AH or 130 AH or 132 AH
   يَحْيَىثقة ثبت ، لكنه يدلس ويرسل
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Hishām al-Dastuwāʾī

   Trustworthy and firmly reliable (thiqah thabt), though he was accused of belief in free will (qadar)d. 151 AH, or 152 AH, or 153 AH, or 154 AH
   هِشَامٍثقة ثبت ، وقد رمي بالقدر
   عن
5. 5
   Yaḥyā

   trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam and exemplar (qudwah)d. 198 AH
   يَحْيَىثقة متقن حافظ ، إمام قدوة
   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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