Sahih al-Bukhari 502
To offer As-Salat (the prayer) facing a pillar
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حَدَّثَنَا الْمَكِّيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي عُبَيْدٍ قَالَ
كُنْتُ آتِي مَعَ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ الأَكْوَعِ فَيُصَلِّي عِنْدَ الأُسْطُوَانَةِ الَّتِي عِنْدَ الْمُصْحَفِ فَقُلْتُ يَا أَبَا مُسْلِمٍ أَرَاكَ تَتَحَرَّى الصَّلاَةَ عِنْدَ هَذِهِ الأُسْطُوَانَةِ قَالَ فَإِنِّي رَأَيْتُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ يَتَحَرَّى الصَّلاَةَ عِنْدَهَا
Translation
Chain of narrators
- al-Makkī b. Ibrāhīm
- Yazīd b. Abū ʿUbayd
I used to accompany Salama bin Al-Akwaʿ and he used to pray behind the pillar which was near the place where the Qur'ans were kept. I said, "O Abu Muslim! I see you always seeking to pray behind this pillar." He replied, "I saw Messenger of Allah ﷺ always seeking to pray near that pillar."
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Same hadith, other wordings
- Tsulatsiyyat 288حَدَّثَنَا مَكِّيٌّ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي عُبَيْدٍ، قَالَ: كُنْتُ آتِي مَعَ سَلَمَةَ الْمَسْجِدَ فَيُصَلِّي مَعَ الْأُسْطُوَانَةِ الَّتِي عِنْدَ الْمُصْحَفِ فَقُلْتُ: يَا أَبَا مُسْلِمٍ، أَرَاكَ تَتَحَرَّى الصَّلَاةَ عِنْدَ
Other narrations of this report
Sahih Muslim 509bSunan Ibn Majah 1430Musnad Ahmad 16516Sahih Ibn Hibban 2152al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 10392al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 3525
Narrators
- present at the Pledge of Riḍwānd. 64 AH or 74 AH; Ibn Saʿd said: at the end of the caliphate of Muʿāwiyah b. Abī Sufyānسَلَمَةُ بْنُ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْأَكْوَعِ الْأَسْلَمِيُّشهد بيعة الرضوانصريح في السماع
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 146 AH, or: 147 AH, also said: 140-odd AHيَزِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي عُبَيْدٍثقةحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 214 AH, or: 215 AHالْمَكِّيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَثقة ثبتحدثنا
- 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 AHالْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث
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Commentaries
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Rajab)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)
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