Musnad al-Bazzar 8705

Translation

✧ There is an hour on Friday during which no believing person asks Allah for good while he is in prayer—he considers it short—but He gives it to him. He said: When Abu Hurayrah died, I blamed myself for not having asked him about it. Then I said: This is Abu Sa'id al-Khudri, and he has earlier companionship with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ; perhaps I will find with him knowledge from the Messenger of Allah. I entered upon Abu Sa'id and I found him—I think—with date stalks in front of him. I said: What are these date stalks, O Abu Sa'id? He said: These are date stalks in which Allah has placed blessing for us, and the Prophet ﷺ used to lean on one, so we cut a stalk for him. While it was in his hand, he saw spittle in the mosque and scraped it with it, then he turned to the people and said: O people, when one of you is in prayer, let him not spit in front of him; let him spit to his left, or under his feet, and if he finds no place to spit—I think he said—then in his shoe or in his garment. He said: The sky became cloudy that day, so it coincided. A flash of lightning flashed on a dark night, and the Prophet ﷺ saw him, so he said: O Messenger of Allah, I knew that the witnesses of prayer were few, so I wanted to attend it with you. He said: Then remain when you pray. When—I think he said—he prayed, he passed by him and he raised the stalk to him and said: Take it out, and if you see blackness in your house, strike it with it, for it is a devil. He did so. He said: I said: O Abu Sa'id, the hour on Friday? He said: We asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ about it, and he said: I knew it—I think he said—then I was made to forget it. He said: Then I left him until I came to the house of a man from the companions of the Prophet ﷺ. He said: I said: This is a man who has read the Torah and accompanied the Prophet ﷺ. He said: I entered upon him and I said...

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• Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī

  رجالهما رجال الصحيح

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  in مسند البزار, p. 8705

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Abi Dawud 478

Narrators

1. 1
   Aḥad al-ṣaḥābah

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)
   أَحَدُ الصَّحَابَةِصحابي
   في حكم السماع
2. 2
   Abū Salamah b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān

   trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir)d. 94 AH, or 104 AH
   أَبِي سَلَمَةَثقة ، مكثر
   عن
3. 3
   Saʿīd b. al-Ḥārith

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 121 AH and 130 AH
   سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِثقة
   عن
4. 4
   Fulayḥ

   truthful (ṣadūq), makes many errors (kathīr al-khaṭaʾ)d. 168 AH
   فُلَيْحُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَصدوق ، كثير الخطأ
   نا
5. 5
   Al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. Aʿyan

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. 210 AH
   الْحَسَنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَعْيَنَصدوق
   نا
6. 6
   Salamah b. Shabīb

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 244 AH or 246 AH or 247 AH
   سَلَمَةُ بْنُ شَبِيبٍثقة
   حدثنا
7. 7
   al-Bazzār

   d. 291 AH or 292 AH or 294 AH
   البزار

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