Musnad Ahmad 23762

Translation

✧ While we were praying with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, a man from the group sneezed, so I said: “May Allah have mercy on you.” The people threw their glances at me, so I said: “Woe to my mother! What is the matter with you that you look at me?” He said: They began striking their hands on their thighs. When I saw them silencing me, I kept quiet. When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ finished praying—may my father and mother be his ransom—I have never seen a teacher before or after him better in teaching than him. By Allah, he did not scowl at me, insult me, or strike me. He said: “Indeed this prayer is not suitable for any of people's speech like this; it is only glorification, magnification, and recitation of the Quran,” or as the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said.

Notes

• فَقُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ إِنَّا قَوْمٌ حَدِيثُ عَهْدٍ بِالْجَاهِلِيَّةِ وَقَدْ جَاءَ اللهُ بِالْإِسْلَامِ وَإِنَّ مِنَّا قَوْمًا يَأْتُونَ الْكُهَّانَ قَالَ فَلَا تَأْتُوهُمْ قُلْتُ إِنَّ مِنَّا قَوْمًا يَتَطَيَّرُونَ قَالَ ذَاكَ شَيْءٌ يَجِدُونَهُ فِي صُدُورِهِمْ فَلَا يَصُدَّنَّهُمْ قُلْتُ إِنَّ مَنَّا قَوْمًا يَخُطُّونَ قَالَ كَانَ نَبِيٌّ يَخُطُّ فَمَنْ وَافَقَ خَطَّهُ فَذَلِكَ قَالَ وَكَانَتْ لِي جَارِيَةٌ تَرْعَى غَنَمًا لِي فِي قِبَلِ أُحُدٍ وَالْجَوَّانِيَّةِ فَاطَّلَعْتُهَا ذَاتَ يَوْمٍ فَإِذَا الذِّئْبُ قَدْ ذَهَبَ بِشَاةٍ مِنْغَنَمِهَا وَأَنَا رَجُلٌ مِنْ بَنِي آدَمَ آسَفُ كَمَا يَأْسَفُونَ لَكِنِّي صَكَكْتُهَا صَكَّةً فَأَتَيْتُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ فَعَظَّمَ ذَلِكَ عَلَيَّ قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ أَفَلَا أُعْتِقُهَا؟ قَالَ ائْتِنِي بِهَا فَأَتَيْتُهُ بِهَا فَقَالَ لَهَا أَيْنَ اللهُ؟ فَقَالَتْ فِي السَّمَاءِ قَالَ مَنْ أَنَا؟ قَالَتْ أَنْتَ رَسُولُ اللهِ قَالَ أَعْتِقْهَا فَإِنَّهَا مُؤْمِنَةٌ وَقَالَ مَرَّةً هِيَ مُؤْمِنَةٌ فَأَعْتِقْهَا

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Same hadith, other wordings

• Riyadhus Shalihin 700"بينا أنا أصلي مع رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم، إذا عطس رجل من القوم فقلت: يرحمك الله، فرماني القوم بأبصارهم ! فقلت: واثكل أمياه ! ما شأنكم تنظرون إلى؟ فجعلوا يضربون بأيديهم على أفخاذهم ! فلما رأيتهم يصمتونني لكنى سكت. فلما صلى رسول الله صل

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 537b

Narrators

1. 1
   Muʿāwiyah b. al-Ḥakam al-Sulamī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. between 51 AH and 60 AH
   مُعَاوِيَة بْن الْحَكَم السُّلَمِيّصحابي
   عن
2. 2
   ʿAṭāʾ b. Yasār al-Hilālī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil), a man of admonitions and worship.d. 94 AH, or 97 AH, or 103 AH, or 104 AH
   عَطَاءِ بْنِ يَسَارٍثقة فاضل ، صاحب مواعظ وعبادة
   عن
3. 3
   Hilāl b. ʿAlī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 110-odd AH, or: at the end of the caliphate of Hishām b. ʿAbd al-Malik
   هِلَالِ بْنِ أَبِي مَيْمُونَةَثقة
   عن
4. 4
   Yaḥyá b. Abī Kathīr

   trustworthy and reliable (thiqah thabt), but he practiced tadlīs and irsāld. 129 AH or 130 AH or 132 AH
   يَحْيَى بْنُ أَبِي كَثِيرٍثقة ثبت ، لكنه يدلس ويرسل
   حدثني
5. 5
   al-Ḥajjāj b. Abī ʿUthmān

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 135 AH, or 143 AH, or 144 AH
   الْحَجَّاجُ بْنُ أَبِي عُثْمَانَثقة حافظ
   حدثني
6. 6
   Ismāʿīl

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 193 AH, or 194 AH
   إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَثقة حافظ
   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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