Musnad Ahmad 2485

Translation

✧ The Prophet ﷺ used to pray while turning to the right and left, but he would not twist his neck behind his back.

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What scholars said about it

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• الحازمي

  حديث غريب تفرد به الفضل بن موسى عن عبد الله بن سعيد بن أبي هند متصلا وأرسله غيره عن عكرمة

  machine translationA gharīb hadith; al-Faḍl b. Mūsā was alone in narrating it from ʿAbdullāh b. Saʿīd b. Abī Hind with a connected chain (muttaṣil), while others narrated it from ʿIkrimah as mursal. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 2506
• al-Tirmidhi

  وقد خالف وكيع الفضل بن موسى في روايته ثم أخرجه عن وكيع عن عبد الله بن سعيد به مرسلا وقال في علله الكبير ولا أعلم أحدا روى هذا الحديث عن عبد الله بن سعيد مسندا مثل ما رواه الفضل بن موسى

  machine translationWakīʿ differed from al-Faḍl b. Mūsā in his narration. Then he recorded it from Wakīʿ, from ʿAbdullāh b. Saʿīd, with it, as mursal. And he said in his al-ʿIlal al-Kabīr: "I do not know anyone who narrated this hadith from ʿAbdullāh b. Saʿīd as musnad like what al-Faḍl b. Mūsā narrated." Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 2506
• Ibn al-Qaṭṭān

  هذا حديث صحيح وإن كان غريبا لا يعرف إلا من هذه الطريق فإن عبد الله بن سعيد وثور بن زيد ثقتان وعكرمة احتج به البخاري فالحديث صحيح

  machine translationThis hadith is authentic (ṣaḥīḥ), even though it is gharīb, not known except through this route, for ʿAbdullāh b. Saʿīd and Thawr b. Zayd are trustworthy (thiqah), and al-Bukhārī used ʿIkrimah as proof. So the hadith is authentic (ṣaḥīḥ). Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 2506
• Abū Daʾūd

  خرجه من طريق رجل عن عكرمة وقال هو أصح أي من المتصل

  machine translationHe recorded it through a man from ʿIkrimah, and he said: "It is more authentic," meaning than the connected version. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 2506

Other narrations of this report

Jami' at-Tirmidhi 587Jami' at-Tirmidhi 588

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbbās

   One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابة
   عن
2. 2
   ʿIkrimah mawlá Ibn ʿAbbās

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), knowledgeable in Qurʾānic exegesis; the claim that Ibn ʿUmar called him a liar is not established, and no innovation is established from him.d. Ibn al-Madīnī said: 104 AH. Abū Saʿīd b. Yūnus and others said: 105 AH, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Abū ʿUmar al-Ḍarīr: 106 AH. Abū Maʿshar al-Madanī and others said: 107 AH. Also reported from al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Abū al-Ḥasan al-Madāʾinī, and Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn: 115 AH. And that is a mistake
   عِكْرِمَةَثقة ثبت عالم بالتفسير ، لم يثبت تكذيبه عن ابن عمر ، ولا تثبت عنه بدعة
   عن
3. 3
   Thawr b. Zayd al-Dīlī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr and Ibn Ḥibbān said: 135 AH. Ibn Qāniʿ said: 140 AH. In al-Ṣarīfīnī's "book": 158 AH
   ثَوْرِ بْنِ زَيْدٍثقة
   عن
4. 4
   ʿAbdullāh b. Saʿīd b. Abī Hind

   Truthful (ṣadūq), who sometimes made errors (wahm)d. 146 AH, or 147 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ سَعِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي هِنْدٍصدوق ، ربما وهم
   حدثنا
5. 5
   al-Faḍl b. Mūsā

   Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), though at times he narrated unusual reports (aghraba)d. 192 AH
   الْفَضْلُ بْنُ مُوسَىثقة ثبت وربما أغرب
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Ibrāhīm b. Isḥāq

   truthful (ṣadūq) but narrates unfamiliar reports (yughrib)d. 214 AH, or 215 AH, or 233 AH
   وَالطَّالَقَانِيُّصدوق يغرب
   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

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