al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 4761
✧ The collective chapters on voluntary prayer and the night prayer of the month of Ramadan
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( أَخْبَرَنَا ) أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ الْحَسَنُ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْمُؤَمَّلِ، أَنْبَأَ أَبُو عُثْمَانَ الْبَصْرِيُّ، ثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْوَهَّابِ، أَنْبَأَ يَعْلَى بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ، ( ح ) وَأَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الْحُسَيْنِ بْنُ بِشْرَانَ بِبَغْدَادَ، ثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الصَّفَّارُ، ثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ الصَّغَانِيُّ، ثَنَا يَعْلَى بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ، ثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ، عَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ:
سَأَلَ رَجُلٌ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ أَيُّ الصَّلَاةِ أَفْضَلُ ؟ قَالَ: " طُولُ الْقُنُوتِ
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Chain of narrators
- [Chain 1] Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. al-Muʾammal Anbaʾ Abū ʿUthmān al-Baṣrī
- Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb Anbaʾ Yaʿlá b. ʿUbayd [Chain 2] Abū al-Ḥusayn b. Bishrān Bibaghdād
- Ismāʿīl b. Muḥammad al-Ṣaffār
- Muḥammad b. Isḥāq al-Ṣaghānī
- Yaʿlá b. ʿUbayd
- al-Aʿmash
- Abū Sufyān
- Jābir
Machine translation, not reviewed
A man asked the Prophet ﷺ: "Which prayer is the best?" He said: "The one with the longest standing (qunūt).
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Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in some reports from them: 68 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 72 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī in another report: 73 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān said: 77 AH. Abū ʿAwn al-Madanī and others said: 78 AH. Abū Nuʿaym and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in another report said: 79 AHجَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابيعن
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. between 111 and 120 AHأَبِي سُفْيَانَصدوقعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AHالْأَعْمَشُثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلسحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), except in his hadith from al-Thawrī, in which there is softness.d. 209 AH, also said: 207 AH.يَعْلَى بْنُ عُبَيْدٍثقة إلا في حديثه عن الثوري ففيه لين .حدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 270 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ الصَّغَانِيُّثقة ثبتحدثنا
- d. 341 AHإِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الصَّفَّارُحدثنا
- d. 415 AHأَبُو الْحُسَيْنِ بْنُ بِشْرَانَأخبرنا
- d. 458 AHالبيهقي
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