al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 5051
✧ The collective chapters on the virtue of congregation and the excuse for abandoning it
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( وَأَخْبَرَنَا ) أَبُو طَاهِرٍ الْفَقِيهُ، أَنْبَأَ أَبُو حَامِدٍ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَحْيَى بْنِ بِلَالٍ، ثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ الْبَغْدَادِيُّ بِمَكَّةَ، ثَنَا يَعْلَى بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ الطَّنَافِسِيُّ، ثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، ( ح ) وَأَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ، أَنْبَأَ عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ مُوسَى، ثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَيُّوبَ، أَنْبَأَ أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ، ثَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ، عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ:
" مَثَلُ الصَّلَوَاتِ الْخَمْسِ كَمَثَلِ نَهَرٍ جَارٍ عَلَى بَابِ أَحَدِكُمْ يَغْتَسِلُ مِنْهُ كُلَّ يَوْمٍ خَمْسَ مَرَّاتٍ
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Chain of narrators
- [Chain 1] Abū Ṭāhir al-Faqīh Anbaʾ Abū Ḥāmid Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyá b. Bilāl
- Muḥammad b. al-Walīd al-Baghdādī Bimakkah
- Yaʿlá b. ʿUbayd al-Ṭanāfisī
- al-Aʿmash [Chain 2] Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥāfiẓ Anbaʾ ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. Mūsá
- Muḥammad b. Ayyūb Anbaʾ Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah
- Abū Muʿāwiyah
- al-Aʿmash
- Abū Sufyān
- Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
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"The example of the five prayers is like a flowing river at the door of one of you, in which he bathes five times every day.
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- Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr
محفوظ من طرق صحاح ثابتة
machine translationIt is preserved (maḥfūẓ) through sound (ṣaḥīḥ), established chains.
in سنن البيهقي الكبرى, p. 5051 - Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī
الحفاظ يقولون عن عبيد بن عمير عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم وهو أشبه
machine translationThe ḥuffāẓ say: from ʿUbayd b. ʿUmayr, from the Prophet ﷺ, and this is more likely (ashbah).
in سنن البيهقي الكبرى, p. 5051
Same hadith, other wordings
- Riyadhus Shalihin 1043"مثل الصلوات الخمس كمثل نهر غمر جار على باب أحدكم يغتسل منه كل يوم خمس مرات".
Other narrations of this report
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 AHالْأَعْمَشِثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلسعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), the best memorizer of people for the hadith of al-Aʿmash, though he may err in the hadith of othersd. 194 AH, or 195 AHأَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَثقة ، أحفظ الناس لحديث الأعمش ، وقد يهم في حديث غيرهحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of works (ṣāḥib taṣānīf)d. 235 AH, or 234 AHأَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَثقة حافظ ، صاحب تصانيفأنبأ
- d. 294 AH, also said: 295 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَيُّوبَحدثنا
- d. 349 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ مُوسَىأنبأ
- d. 403 AH, or 405 AHأَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُأخبرنا
- d. 458 AHالبيهقي
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