al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 5206
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أَخْبَرَنَا ) أَبُو بَكْرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ فُورَكَ، أَنْبَأَ عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ، ثَنَا يُونُسُ بْنُ حَبِيبٍ، ثَنَا أَبُو دَاوُدَ، ثَنَا هِشَامٌ، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي نَضْرَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ:
" إِذَا كَانُوا ثَلَاثَةً فِي سَفَرٍ فَلْيَؤُمَّهُمْ أَحَدُهُمْ وَأَحَقُّهُمْ بِالْإِمَامَةِ أَقْرَؤُهُمْ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan b. Fūrak Anbaʾ ʿAbdullāh b. Jaʿfar
- Yūnus b. Ḥabīb
- Abū Dāwud
- Hishām
- Qatādah
- Abū Naḍrah
- Abū Saʿīd
- al-Nabī ﷺ
Machine translation, not reviewed
"If there are three of them on a journey, let one of them lead them in prayer, and the most deserving of them to be imam is the one who recites the best.
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Narrators
- He and his father were Companions (ṣuḥbah).d. 63 AH, or 64 AH, or 65 AH, or 74 AHأَبُو سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيُّله ولأبيه صحبةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. During the governorship of Ibn Hubayrah (103–105 AH), or 108 AH, or 109 AHأَبِي نَضْرَةَثقةعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 117 AH, or: 118 AHقَتَادَةَثقة ثبتعن
- Trustworthy and firmly reliable (thiqah thabt), though he was accused of belief in free will (qadar)d. 151 AH, or 152 AH, or 153 AH, or 154 AHهِشَامٌثقة ثبت ، وقد رمي بالقدرحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), who erred in some hadithsd. 203 AH, or 204 AHأَبُو دَاوُدَثقة حافظ , غلط في أحاديثحدثنا
- d. 267 AHيُونُسُ بْنُ حَبِيبٍحدثنا
- d. 346 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍأنبأ
- d. 406 AHأَبُو بَكْرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ فُورَكَأخبرنا
- d. 458 AHالبيهقي
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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