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al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 3640

✧ The collective chapters on khushu' in the prayer and attending to it

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أَخْبَرَنَا ) أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ، وَأَبُو سَعِيدِ بْنُ أَبِي عَمْرٍو، قَالَا: ثَنَا أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ، ثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْحَمِيدِ الْحَارِثِيُّ، ثَنَا أَبُو أُسَامَةَ عَنِ الْوَلِيدِ - يَعْنِي ابْنَ كَثِيرٍ - قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي سَعِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْمَقْبُرِيُّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ؓ قَالَ:

صَلَّى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ يَوْمًا ثُمَّ انْصَرَفَ، فَقَالَ: يَا فُلَانُ، أَلَا تُحَسِّنُ صَلَاتَكَ، أَلَا يَنْظُرُ الْمُصَلِّي إِذَا صَلَّى كَيْفَ يُصَلِّي، فَإِنَّمَا يُصَلِّي لِنَفْسِهِ، إِنِّي وَاللهِ لَأُبْصِرُ مِنْ وَرَائِي كَمَا أُبْصِرُ مِنْ بَيْنِ يَدَيَّ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥāfiẓ and ʾAbū Saʿīd b. Abū ʿAmr
  2. Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb
  3. Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Ḥārithī
  4. Abū Usāmah
  5. al-Walīd / Ibn Kathīr
  6. Saʿīd b. Abū Saʿīd al-Maqburī
  7. his father
  8. Abū Hurayrah

Machine translation, not reviewed

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ prayed one day, then turned away and said: "O so-and-so, will you not improve your prayer? Does the one who prays not look to how he prays? For he only prays for himself. By Allah, I see behind me just as I see in front of me."

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Sahih al-Bukhari 6644Sahih al-Bukhari 742Sahih Muslim 423Sunan an-Nasa'i 872

Narrators

  1. Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī
    The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
    أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
    عن
  2. his father
    trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. during ʿAbd al-Malik's caliphate, or in the caliphate of al-Walīd b. ʿAbd al-Malik, or the year 100 AH, al-Ṭaḥāwī said: died in the year 125 AH, and this is a mistake on his part; for it is actually the year his son Saʿīd died
    أَبِيهِثقة ثبت
    عن
  3. Saʿīd al-Maqburī
    Trustworthy (thiqah); his memory changed four years before his death, and his narration from ʿĀʾishah and Umm Salamah is mursal.d. 117 AH or 123 AH, or 125 AH, or 126 AH, or around the year 120 AH
    سَعِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْمَقْبُرِيُّثقة ، تغير قبل موته بأربع سنين ، وروايته عن عائشة وأم سلمة مرسلة
    حدثني
  4. al-Walīd b. Kathīr
    Truthful (ṣadūq), knowledgeable about the military expeditions (maghāzī), accused of holding the opinion of the Khawārijd. 151 AH
    الْوَلِيدِ - يَعْنِي ابْنَ كَثِيرٍصدوق ، عارف بالمغازي ، رمي برأي الخوارج
    عن
  5. Abū Usāmah
    Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt); he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), and toward the end of his life he used to narrate from the books of others.d. 200 AH, or 201 AH
    أَبُو أُسَامَةَثقة ثبت ، ربما دلس ، وكان بآخره يحدث من كتب غيره.
    حدثنا
  6. Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Ḥārithī
    d. 269 AH
    أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْحَمِيدِ الْحَارِثِيُّ
    حدثنا
  7. Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb
    d. 346 AH
    أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ
    حدثنا
  8. Abū Saʿīd b. Abī ʿAmr
    d. 421 AH
    وَأَبُو سَعِيدِ بْنُ أَبِي عَمْرٍو
    أخبرنا
  9. al-Bayhaqī
    d. 458 AH
    البيهقي

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