al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 5058
✧ The collective chapters on the virtue of congregation and the excuse for abandoning it
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( أَخْبَرَنَا ) أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ، ثَنَا أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ، ثَنَا أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْحَمِيدِ الْحَارِثِيُّ، ثَنَا أَبُو أُسَامَةَ، حَدَّثَنِي يَزِيدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ، عَنْ جَدِّهِ أَبِي بُرْدَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي مُوسَى قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ:
" إِنَّ أَعْظَمَ النَّاسِ أَجْرًا فِي الصَّلَاةِ أَبْعَدُهُمْ إِلَيْهَا مَمْشًى فَأَبْعَدُهُمْ، وَالَّذِي يَنْتَظِرُ الصَّلَاةَ حَتَّى يُصَلِّيَهَا مَعَ الْإِمَامِ فِي جَمَاعَةٍ أَعْظَمُ أَجْرًا مِنَ الَّذِي يُصَلِّيهَا ثُمَّ يَنَامُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū ʿAbdullāh Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥāfiẓ
- Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb
- Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Ḥārithī
- Abū Usāmah
- Yazīd b. ʿAbdullāh
- Jaddih Abū Burdah
- Abū Mūsá
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
Machine translation, not reviewed
"Indeed, the people greatest in reward in the prayer are those who live farthest away from it in walking distance, and then those next farthest; and the one who waits for the prayer until he prays it with the imam in congregation is greater in reward than the one who prays it and then goes to sleep.
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Same hadith, other wordings
- Riyadhus Shalihin 1057"إن أعظم الناس أجرًا في الصلاة أبعدهم إليها ممشى، فأبعدهم، والذي ينتظر الصلاة حتى يصليها مع الإمام أعظم أجرًا من الذي يصليها ثم ينام"
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 42 AH, or 44 AH, or 50 AH, or 52 AH, or 53 AH, also said 49 AH, also said 51 AHأَبُو مُوسَى الْأَشْعَرِيُّصحابي مشهورعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 103 AH, or: 104 AH, or: 107 AHأَبِي بُرْدَةَثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), makes a few mistakesd. between 141 and 150 AHيَزِيدُ [١]بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِثقة ، يخطئ قليلاحدثني
- 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 AHأَبُو أُسَامَةَثقة ثبت ، ربما دلس ، وكان بآخره يحدث من كتب غيره.حدثنا
- d. 269 AHأَبُو جَعْفَرٍ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْحَمِيدِ الْحَارِثِيُّحدثنا
- d. 346 AHأَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَحدثنا
- d. 403 AH, or 405 AHأَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُأخبرنا
- d. 458 AHالبيهقي
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