Sunan ad-Darimi 1502
✧ The merit of those who prostrate to Allah
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ كَثِيرٍ عَنْ الْأَوْزَاعِيِّ عَنْ هَارُونَ بْنِ رِئَابٍ عَنِ الْأَحْنَفِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ قَالَ
دَخَلْتُ مَسْجِدَ دِمَشْقَ فَإِذَا رَجُلٌ يُكْثِرُ الرُّكُوعَ وَالسُّجُودَ قُلْتُ لَا أَخْرُجُ حَتَّى أَنْظُرَ أَيَدْرِي هَذَا عَلَى شَفْعٍ يَنْصَرِفُ أَمْ عَلَى وِتْرٍ؟ فَلَمَّا فَرَغَ قُلْتُ يَا عَبْدَ اللَّهِ أَعَلَى شَفْعٍ تَدْرِي انْصَرَفْتَ أَمْ عَلَى وِتْرٍ؟ فَقَالَ إِنْ أَكُ لَا أَدْرِي فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ يَدْرِي ثُمَّ قَالَ إِنِّي سَمِعْتُ خَلِيلِي أَبَا الْقَاسِمِ ﷺ يَقُولُ «مَا مِنْ عَبْدٍ يَسْجُدُ لِلَّهِ سَجْدَةً إِلَّا رَفَعَهُ اللَّهُ بِهَا دَرَجَةً وَحَطَّ عَنْهُ بِهَا خَطِيئَةً» قُلْتُ مَنْ أَنْتَ رَحِمَكَ اللَّهُ؟ قَالَ أَنَا أَبُو ذَرٍّ قَالَ فَتَقَاصَرَتْ إِلَيَّ نَفْسِي
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. Kathīr
- al-Awzāʿī
- Hārūn b. Riʾāb
- al-Aḥnaf b. Qays
✧ I entered the mosque of Damascus and saw a man who was frequently performing bowing and prostration. I said to myself, "I will not leave until I see whether he moves to the next two cycles of prayer or continues with another one." When he finished, I said, "O Abdullah, did you move to the next two cycles of prayer or continue with another one?" He replied, "Truly, I do not know. But indeed, Allah knows." Then he said, "I have heard my beloved friend, Abu Al-Qasim ﷺ, say, 'Whenever a servant prostrates to Allah, Allah elevates him by a degree and removes a sin from him.'" I asked, "Who are you, may Allah have mercy on you?" He said, "I am Abu Dhar." At that moment, I lost consciousness.
Grades by grader
| Ḥasan Salīm Asad al-Dārānī | Weak Chain | hadithunlocked |
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What scholars said about it
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- Abū Zakariyyā Yaḥyá b. Sharaf al-Nawawī
إسناده صحيح إلا رجلا اختلفوا في عدالته وذكره في فصل الضعيف من خلاصته
machine translationIts chain of transmission is sound (ṣaḥīḥ) except for one man whose reliability (ʿadālah) they disagreed about, and he [the author] mentioned him in the section on the weak (ḍaʿīf) in his Khulāṣah.
in مسند الدارمي, p. 1498
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 31 AH, or: 32 AHأَبُو ذَرٍّ الْغِفَارِيُّالصحابيفقال
- a mukhaḍram, trustworthy (thiqah)d. it is said: 67 AH, or: 68 AH, also said: 71 AH, also said: 72 AHالْأَحْنَفِ بْنِ قَيْسٍمخضرم ثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. between 121 and 130 AHهَارُونَ بْنِ رِيَابٍثقة عابدعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), eminentd. 157 AH, also said: 151 AH, also said: 155 AH, also said: 156 AHالْأَوْزَاعِيِّثقة جليلعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), makes many errors (ghalaṭ)d. 216 AH, or 217 AH, or 218 AH, or 219 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ كَثِيرٍصدوق كثير الغلطحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil), meticulous (mutqin)d. 254 AH, or 255 AH, also said: 250 AHالدارميثقة ، فاضل ، متقن
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.