Musnad Ahmad 17026

Translation

✧ I came to the Messenger of God ﷺ and said: 'O Messenger of God, who has embraced Islam?' He said: 'A free man and a slave.' I said: 'Is there any hour closer to God Almighty than another?' He said: 'The last part of the night. Pray as much as you wish until you pray the morning prayer, then stop until the sun rises, and as long as it is like a shield until it spreads. Then pray as much as you wish until the spear's shadow stands on its shadow, then stop until the sun declines, for Hell is kindled at midday. Then pray as much as you wish until you pray the afternoon prayer, then stop until the sun sets, for it sets between the two horns of a devil and rises between the two horns of a devil. When a servant performs ablution and washes his hands, his sins fall from between his hands. When he washes his face, his sins fall from his face. When he washes his forearms and wipes his head, his sins fall from his forearms and head. When he washes his feet, his sins fall from his feet. Then when he stands for prayer, and he, his heart, and his face—or a word like face—are directed to God Almighty, he departs as his mother bore him.' It was said to him: 'Did you hear this from the Messenger of God ﷺ?' He said: 'If I had not heard it once or twice or ten or twenty times, I would not have narrated it.'

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What scholars said about it

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• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  حديث صحيح وطرقه كثيرة حسان شامية إلا أن قوله في هذا الحديث ثم الصلاة محضورة مشهودة حتى تغيب الشمس قد خالفه فيه غيره في هذا الحديث فقال ثم الصلاة مشهودة متقبلة حتى يصلى العصر وهذا أشبه بالسنن المأثورة في ذلك

  machine translationA sound (ṣaḥīḥ) hadith, and its routes are many, good (ḥasan) ones from the Levant, except that his words in this hadith, "then the prayer is witnessed and attended until the sun sets," have been contradicted by others in this hadith, who said, "then the prayer is witnessed and accepted until the ʿAṣr prayer is prayed," and this is closer to the transmitted Sunnah reports on that matter. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 17231

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Abi Dawud 1277Sunan an-Nasa'i 584Sunan Ibn Majah 1251

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAmr b. ʿAbasah

   a well-known Companiond. in the last years of the caliphate of ʿUthmān
   عَمْرُو بْنُ عَبَسَةَصحابي مشهور
   عن
2. 2
   ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. al-Baylamānī al-Madanī

   weak (ḍaʿīf)d. between 91 and 100 AH
   عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ الْبَيْلَمَانِيِّضعيف
   عن
3. 3
   Yazīd b. Ṭalq

   unknown (majhūl)
   يَزِيدَ بْنِ طَلْقٍمجهول
   عن
4. 4
   Yaʿlā b. ʿAṭāʾ

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 120 AH, or after it
   يَعْلَى بْنِ عَطَاءٍثقة
   عن
5. 5
   Shuʿbah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AH
   شُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقن
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar

   Trustworthy (thiqah), his book was sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb), except that he had some heedlessness (ghaflah)d. 192 AH or 193 AH or 194 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍثقة صحيح الكتاب إلا أن فيه غفلة
   حدثنا
7. 7
   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

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

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