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al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 5037

✧ The collective chapters on the virtue of congregation and the excuse for abandoning it

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( فَأَخْبَرَنَاهُ ) أَبُو الْحَسَنِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ الْفَضْلِ الْقَطَّانُ بِبَغْدَادَ، أَنْبَأَ أَبُو سَهْلِ بْنُ زِيَادٍ الْقَطَّانُ، ثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ، ثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْلَمَةَ بْنِ قَعْنَبٍ، عَنْ مَالِكِ بْنِ أَنَسٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيِّبِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ: أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ:

صَلَاةُ الْجَمَاعَةِ أَفْضَلُ مِنْ صَلَاةِ أَحَدِكُمْ وَحْدَهُ بِخَمْسَةٍ وَعِشْرِينَ جُزْءًا

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Ismāʿīl b. Isḥāq
  2. ʿAbdullāh b. Maslamah b. Qaʿnab
  3. Mālik b. Anas
  4. Ibn Shihāb
  5. Saʿīd b. al-Musayyib
  6. Abū Hurayrah
  7. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

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The prayer in congregation is better than the prayer of one of you alone by twenty-five parts.

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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. Saʿīd b. al-Musayyib
    One of the reliable (athbāt), eminent jurist scholarsd. 87 AH, or 93 AH, or 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 100 AH, Ibn Maʿīn and Ibn al-Madīnī said: 105 AH
    سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيِّبِأحد العلماء الأثبات الفقهاء الكبار
    عن
  3. al-Zuhrī
    The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AH
    ابْنِ شِهَابٍالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبته
    عن
  4. Mālik b. Anas
    The jurist (al-faqīh), the Imam of the Abode of Migration (Imām Dār al-Hijrah), the head of the proficient masters, and the foremost among the meticulous.d. 178 AH, or 179 AH
    مَالِكِ بْنِ أَنَسٍالفقيه ، إمام دار الهجرة ، رأس المتقنين ، وكبير المتثبتين
    عن
  5. al-Qaʿnabī
    trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 220 AH, or 221 AH
    عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْلَمَةَ بْنِ قَعْنَبٍثقة عابد
    حدثنا
  6. Ismāʿīl b. Isḥāq al-Qāḍī
    d. the end of 282 AH or the beginning of 283 AH
    إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ
    حدثنا
  7. Abū Sahl b. Ziyād al-Qaṭṭān
    d. 350 AH
    أَبُو سَهْلِ بْنُ زِيَادٍ الْقَطَّانُ
    أنبأ
  8. Abū al-Ḥusayn b. al-Faḍl al-Qaṭṭān
    d. 415 AH
    أَبُو الْحَسَنِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ الْفَضْلِ الْقَطَّانُ
    أخبرنا
  9. al-Bayhaqī
    d. 458 AH
    البيهقي

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