al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 959

Translation

✧ When one of you prays and does not know whether he prayed three or four [rak'ahs], let him perform one rak'ah, perfecting its bowing and prostration, and then prostrate twice.

Notes

• هَذَا حَدِيثٌ صَحِيحٌ عَلَى شَرْطِ الشَّيْخَيْنِ وَلَمْ يُخَرِّجَاهُ بِهَذِهِ الزِّيَادَةِ مِنْ ذِكْرِ الرَّكْعَةِ وَلَهُ شَاهِدٌ وَلَمْ يُخَرِّجَاهُ وَهُوَ قَوْلُهُ ﷺ «إِذَا شَكَّ أَحَدُكُمْ فِي النُّقْصَانِ فَلْيُصَلِّ حَتَّى بَيْنَكَ فِي الزِّيَادَةِ» على شرطهما

Grades by grader

What scholars said about it

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• Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥākim

  هذا حديث صحيح على شرط الشيخين ولم يخرجاه بهذه الزيادة

  machine translationThis is an authentic (ṣaḥīḥ) hadith meeting the criteria of the two Shaykhs (al-Bukhārī and Muslim), but they did not record it with this addition. Report a problem

  in المستدرك على الصحيحين, p. 965
• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  لا يصح رفع هذا الحديث

  machine translationThe attribution of this hadith to the Prophet (raf') is not sound. Report a problem

  in المستدرك على الصحيحين, p. 965
• Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥākim

  حديث صحيح على شرط الشيخين ولم يخرجاه بهذه الزيادة

  machine translationA sound (ṣaḥīḥ) hadith meeting the criteria of the two Shaykhs (al-Bukhārī and Muslim), though they did not narrate it with this addition. Report a problem

  in المستدرك على الصحيحين, p. 965
• Dāraquṭnī

  يرويه عمر بن محمد بن زيد واختلف عنه فرواه سليمان بن بلال عن عمر بن محمد بن زيد عن سالم عن أبيه عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم ورواه مالك بن أنس عن عمر بن محمد عن سالم عن ابن عمر موقوفا ورفعه غير ثابت

  machine translationʿUmar b. Muḥammad b. Zayd narrates it, and there is disagreement about him. Sulaymān b. Bilāl narrated it from ʿUmar b. Muḥammad b. Zayd, from Sālim, from his father, from the Prophet ﷺ. And Mālik b. Anas narrated it from ʿUmar b. Muḥammad, from Sālim, from Ibn ʿUmar as a statement of the Companion (mawqūf). Its attribution to the Prophet (raf') is not established. Report a problem

  in المستدرك على الصحيحين, p. 965

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb

   One of the Companions who narrated most often, and one of the ʿAbādilah; he was among the people most strict in following the narrations (athar).d. 72 AH, or 73 AH, or 74 AH, also said: 75 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِأحد المكثرين من الصحابة والعبادلة ، وكان من أشد الناس اتباعا للأثر
   عن
2. 2
   Sālim b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb

   He was reliable (thabt), devout (ʿābid) and virtuous (fāḍil); he resembled his father in conduct (hady) and demeanor (samt)d. 105 AH or 106 AH or 107 AH or 108 AH, and the correct one is the first
   سَالِمِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عُمَرَكان ثبتا عابدا فاضلا ، كان يشبه بأبيه في الهدي والسمت
   عن
3. 3
   ʿUmar b. Muḥammad

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. before 150 AH
   عُمَرَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ زَيْدٍثقة
   عن
4. 4
   Sulaymān b. Bilāl

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 172 AH, or: 177 AH
   سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ بِلَالٍثقة
   عن
5. 5
   Akhī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 202 AH
   أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي أُوَيْسٍثقة
   حدثني
6. 6
   Ayyūb b. Sulaymān b. Bilāl

   trustworthy (thiqah), deemed soft by al-Azdī and al-Sājī without evidenced. 224 AH
   أَيُّوبُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ بِلَالٍثقة ، لينه الأزدي والساجي بلا دليل
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl al-Sulamī

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 280 AH or 275 AH, or shortly before or after it
   أَبُو إِسْمَاعِيلَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ السُّلَمِيُّثقة حافظ
   حدثنا
8. 8
   Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad b. ʿUthmān al-Bazzār
   أبو الحسن أحمد بن عثمان البزار
   أخبرنا
9. 9
   al-Ḥākim

   d. 403 AH, or 405 AH
   الحاكم

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

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