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Sahih al-Bukhari 1117

Whoever cannot offer Salat while sitting, can offer Salat while lying on his side

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حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدَانُ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ طَهْمَانَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي الْحُسَيْنُ الْمُكْتِبُ عَنِ ابْنِ بُرَيْدَةَ عَنْ عِمْرَانَ بْنِ حُصَيْنٍ ؓ قَالَ

كَانَتْ بِي بَوَاسِيرُ فَسَأَلْتُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ عَنِ الصَّلاَةِ فَقَالَ صَلِّ قَائِمًا فَإِنْ لَمْ تَسْتَطِعْ فَقَاعِدًا فَإِنْ لَمْ تَسْتَطِعْ فَعَلَى جَنْبٍ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. ʿAbdān
  2. ʿAbdullāh
  3. Ibrāhīm b. Ṭahmān
  4. al-Ḥusayn al-Muktib
  5. Ibn Buraydah
  6. ʿImrān b. Ḥuṣayn

had piles, so I asked the Prophet ﷺ about the prayer. He said, "Pray while standing and if you can't, pray while sitting and if you cannot do even that, then pray Lying on your side."

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Same hadith, other wordings

  • Misykatul Mashabih 1248وَعَنْ عِمْرَانَ بْنِ حُصَيْنٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسلم قَائِمًا فَإِنْ لَمْ تَسْتَطِعْ فَقَاعِدًا فَإِنْ لَمْ تستطع فعلى جنب». رَوَاهُ البُخَارِيّ

Other narrations of this report

Narrators

  1. embraced Islam in the year of Khaybar, accompanied the Prophet ﷺ, and was virtuousd. 52 AH, Ibn Mandah related a view that he died in the year (53) AH
    عِمْرَان بْن حُصَيْن بْن عُبَيْد بْن خَلَف الْخُزَاعِيّأسلم عام خيبر وصحب وكان فاضلا
    عن
  2. trustworthy (thiqah)d. 105 AH, or 115 AH
    ابْنِ بُرَيْدَةَثقة
    عن
  3. trustworthy (thiqah), though he sometimes erred (rubbamā wahima)d. 145 AH
    الْحُسَيْنُ الْمُكْتِبُثقة ، ربما وهم
    حدثني
  4. Trustworthy (thiqah) who narrates unusual reports (yughrib); he was criticized for Irjāʾ (Murjiʾism), and it is said that he retracted itd. 158 AH, or 160 AH, or 163 AH, or 168 AH
    إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ طَهْمَانَثقة يغرب ، تكلم فيه للإرجاء ، ويقال : رجع عنه
    عن
  5. Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh) and scholar, generous and a fighter in the way of God, in whom the qualities of goodness were gathered.d. 181 AH, or 182 AH
    عَبْدِ اللهِثقة ثبت ، فقيه عالم ، جواد مجاهد ، جمعت فيه خصال الخير
    عن
  6. trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 220 AH, or 221 AH, also said: 222 AH
    عَبْدَانُثقة حافظ
    حدثنا
  7. 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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Commentaries

Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)

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