Sahih Ibn Hibban 2107
✧ The obligation of Imam's observance
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أَخْبَرَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ إِدْرِيسَ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ عَنْ مَالِكٍ عَنْ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ عَنِ الْأَعْرَجِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ
«إِنَّمَا جُعِلَ الْإِمَامُ لِيُؤْتَمَّ بِهِ فَلَا تَخْتَلِفُوا عَلَيْهِ فَإِذَا كَبَّرَ فَكَبِّرُوا وَإِذَا رَكَعَ فَارْكَعُوا وَإِذَا قَالَ سَمِعَ اللَّهُ لِمَنْ حَمِدَهُ فَقُولُوا اللَّهُمَّ رَبَّنَا لَكَ الْحَمْدُ وَإِذَا صَلَّى قَاعِدًا فَصَلُّوا قُعُودًا أَجْمَعُونَ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- al-Ḥusayn b. Idrīs al-Anṣārī
- Aḥmad b. Abū Bakr
- Mālik
- Abū al-Zinād
- al-Aʿraj
- Abū Hurayrah
- al-Nabī ﷺ
✧ The imam is only appointed to be followed, so do not differ from him. When he says the takbir, say the takbir; when he bows, bow; when he says “Allah hears the one who praises Him,” say “O Allah, our Lord, to You belongs praise”; and when he prays sitting, all of you pray sitting.
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What scholars said about it
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- Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal
صححه
in صحيح ابن حبان, p. 2112
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 57 AHأَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّصحابيعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 110 AHالْأَعْرَجِثقة ثبتعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 129 AHأَبِي الزِّنَادِثقةعن
- The jurist (al-faqīh), the Imam of the Abode of Migration (Imām Dār al-Hijrah), the head of the proficient masters, and the foremost among the meticulous.d. 178 AHمَالِكٍالفقيه ، إمام دار الهجرة ، رأس المتقنين ، وكبير المتثبتينعن
- أخبرناtruthful (ṣadūq)d. 242 AH
- أخبرنا
- d. 354 AH
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.