Musnad Ahmad 7201

Translation

✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ prayed one of the two evening prayers (he said: Abu Hurayrah mentioned it, and Muhammad forgot it) and prayed two rak'ahs, then gave the greeting, and went to a piece of wood placed crosswise in the mosque. He placed his hand on it as if he were angry. The quick ones among the people rushed out of the doors of the mosque, saying, 'The prayer has been shortened.' Among the people were Abu Bakr and Umar, but they were too awed to speak to him. Among the people was a man with long hands called Dhu al-Yadayn, who said, 'O Messenger of Allah, did you forget, or has the prayer been shortened?' He said, 'I did not forget, nor has the prayer been shortened.' He said, 'Is it as Dhu al-Yadayn says?' They said, 'Yes.' So he came and prayed what he had left, then gave the greeting, then said the takbir and prostrated like his prostration or longer, then raised his head and said the takbir, then said the takbir and prostrated like his prostration or longer, then raised his head and said the takbir. Muhammad was asked, 'Then did he give the greeting?' He would say, 'I was informed that Imran b. Husayn said: Then he gave the greeting.'

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• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  فإن قال قائل إن حديث ذي اليدين مضطرب لأن ابن عمر وأبا هريرة يقولان سلم من اثنتين وعمران بن حصين يقول من ثلاث ركعات ومعاوية بن حديج يقول إن المتكلم طلحة بن عبيد الله قيل له ليس اختلافهم في موضع السلام من الصلاة عند أحد من أهل العلم بخلاف يقدح في حديثهم لأن المعنى المراد من الحديث هو البناء بعد الكلام ولا فرق عند أهل العلم بين المسلم من ثلاث أو من اثنتين لأن كل واحد منهما لم يكمل صلاته وأما ما ذكر في حديث معاوية بن حديج من ذكر طلحة بن عبيد الله فممكن أن يكون أيضا طلحة كلمه وغيره وليس في أن يكلمه طلحة وغيره ما يدفع أن ذا اليدين كلمه أيضا فأدى كل ما سمع على حسب ما سمع

  machine translationIf someone says: the hadith of Dhū l-Yadayn is inconsistent (muḍṭarib), because Ibn ʿUmar and Abū Hurayrah say that he gave the salām after two units, while ʿImrān b. Ḥuṣayn says after three units, and Muʿāwiyah b. Ḥudayj says that the one who spoke was Ṭalḥah b. ʿUbaydillāh, it is said to him: their disagreement about the point of the prayer at which the salām was given is not, according to any of the people of knowledge, a disagreement that undermines their hadith, because the meaning intended by the hadith is building on the prayer after speaking. There is no difference among the people of knowledge between one who gave the salām after three or after two, because neither of them had completed his prayer. As for what is mentioned in the hadith of Muʿāwiyah b. Ḥudayj about Ṭalḥah b. ʿUbaydillāh, it is possible that Ṭalḥah and others also spoke to him, and Ṭalḥah and others speaking to him does not rule out that Dhū l-Yadayn also spoke to him. So each one reported what he heard according to what he heard. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 7281

Other narrations of this report

Sunan an-Nasa'i 1331

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿImrān b. Ḥuṣayn b. ʿUbayd b. Khalaf al-Khuzāʿī

   embraced Islam in the year of Khaybar, accompanied the Prophet ﷺ, and was virtuousd. 52 AH, Ibn Mandah related a view that he died in the year (53) AH
   عِمْرَان بْن حُصَيْن بْن عُبَيْد بْن خَلَف الْخُزَاعِيّأسلم عام خيبر وصحب وكان فاضلا
   نبئت
2. 2
   Muḥammad b. Sīrīn

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), devout (ʿābid), of great standing; he did not permit narration by meaning.d. 110 AH
   مُحَمَّدٍثقة ثبت عابد كبير القدر ، كان لا يرى الرواية بالمعنى
   عن
3. 3
   ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAwn b. Arṭabān

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), virtuous (fāḍil).d. 150 AH, also said: 151 AH, also said: 152 AH
   ابْنِ عَوْنٍثقة ثبت فاضل
   عن
4. 4
   Ibn Abī ʿAdī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 192 AH, or 194 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي عَدِيٍّثقة
   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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