Sahih al-Bukhari 1077

Translation

ʿUmar bin Al-Khattab recited Surat-an-Nahl on a Friday on the pulpit and when he reached the verse of Sajda he got down from the pulpit and prostrated and the people also prostrated. The next Friday ʿUmar bin Al-Khattab recited the same Sura and when he reached the verse of Sajda he said, "O people! When we recite the verses of Sajda (during the sermon) whoever prostrates does the right thing, yet it is no sin for the one who does not prostrate." And ʿUmar did not prostrate (that day). Added Ibn ʿUmar "Allah has not made the prostration of recitation compulsory but if we wish we can do it."

Notes

• وَزَادَ نَافِعٌ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ ؓ إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَمْ يَفْرِضِ السُّجُودَ إِلاَّ أَنْ نَشَاءَ

  machine translationNāfiʿ added, from Ibn ʿUmar ؓ: "Indeed, Allah has not made prostration obligatory, unless we wish." Report a problem

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Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 5928al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 3823

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb

   Commander of the Faithful (amīr al-muʾminīn), well-known, of abundant virtues (jamm al-manāqib)d. 23 AH, also said: 24 AH
   عُمَر بْن الْخَطَّابأمير المؤمنين مشهور جم المناقب
   صريح في السماع
2. 2
   Rabīʿah b. ʿAbdullāh b. al-Hudayr

   He saw the Prophet (ruʾyah) but did not meet him as a Companiond. 93 AH, or: 104 AH or: 154 AH
   رَبِيعَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الْهُدَيْرِ التَّيْمِيِّله رؤية
   عن
3. 3
   ʿUthmān b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Taymī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 121 and 130 AH
   عُثْمَانَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ التَّيْمِيِّثقة
   عن
4. 4
   Abū Bakr b. Abī Mulaykah

   acceptable (maqbūl)d. between 101 and 110 AH
   أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي مُلَيْكَةَمقبول
   أخبرني
5. 5
   Ibn Jurayj

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), excellent (fāḍil); he used to commit concealment (tadlīs) and to narrate with omission of the Companion (irsāl).d. 149 AH or 150 AH or 151 AH or 160 AH
   ابْنَ جُرَيْجٍثقة فقيه فاضل ، وكان يدلس ويرسل
   أخبرهم
6. 6
   Hishām b. Yūsuf

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 197 AH, or 199 AH
   هِشَامُ بْنُ يُوسُفَثقة
   أخبرنا
7. 7
   Ibrāhīm b. Mūsā

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 219 AH, or 220-odd AH
   إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ مُوسَىثقة حافظ
   حدثنا
8. 8
   al-Bukhārī

   a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AH
   الْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث

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