Musnad Ahmad 18849

Translation

✧ I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ raise his hands when he began the prayer until his thumbs were level with the lobes of his ears

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What scholars said about it

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• Mubarakpūri

  ليس فيه اضطراب بل هى رواية راجحة ردا على الأحناف

  machine translationThere is no inconsistency (iḍṭirāb) in it; rather it is the preponderant report, in reply to the Ḥanafīs. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 19085

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Abi Dawud 728

Narrators

1. 1
   Wāʾil b. Ḥujr b. Saʿd al-Ḥaḍramī

   Eminent Companion (ṣaḥābī jalīl)d. 44 AH
   وَائِلُ بْنُ حُجْرِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ الْحَضْرَمِيُّصحابي جليل
   عن
2. 2
   ʿAbd al-Jabbār b. Wāʾil

   Trustworthy (thiqah), but he narrated in mursal form from his father (arsala ʿan abīhi)d. 112 AH
   عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِ بْنِ وَائِلٍثقة ، لكنه أرسل عن أبيه
   عن
3. 3
   Fiṭr

   truthful (ṣadūq), accused of Shiʿism (rumiya bi-l-tashayyuʿ)d. Ibn Ḥibbān said: 153 AH, Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥaḍramī said: 155 AH, also said: 156 AH
   فِطْرٌصدوق ، رمي بالتشيع
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Wakīʿ b. al-Jarrāḥ

   Trustworthy, a memorizer, devout (thiqah ḥāfiẓ ʿābid)d. 196 AH, or 197 AH, or 198 AH
   وَكِيعٌثقة حافظ عابد
   حدثنا
5. 5
   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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