Sahih Ibn Hibban 2122
✧ The obligation of Imam's observance
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أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ قُتَيْبَةَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ مَوْهِبٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي اللَّيْثُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ
اشْتَكَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَصَلَّيْنَا وَرَاءَهُ وَهُوَ قَاعِدٌ وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ يُكَبِّرُ يُسْمِعُ النَّاسَ تَكْبِيرَهُ قَالَ فَالْتَفَتَ إِلَيْنَا فَرَآنَا قِيَامًا فَأَشَارَ إِلَيْنَا فَقَعَدْنَا فَصَلَّيْنَا بِصَلَاتِهِ قُعُودًا فَلَمَّا سَلَّمَ قَالَ «كِدْتُمْ أَنْ تَفْعَلُوا فِعْلَ فَارِسَ وَالرُّومَ يَقُومُونَ عَلَى مُلُوكِهِمْ وَهُمْ قُعُودٌ فَلَا تَفْعَلُوا ائْتَمُّوا بِإِمَامِكُمْ إِنْ صَلَّى قَائِمًا فَصَلُّوا قِيَامًا وَإِنْ صَلَّى قَاعِدًا فَصَلُّوا قُعُودًا»
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Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan b. Qutaybah
- Yazīd b. Mawhib
- al-Layth b. Saʿd
- Abū al-Zubayr
- Jābir
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was ill, so we prayed behind him while he was seated. Abu Bakr was saying the takbir, making his takbir audible to the people. He said: He turned toward us and saw us standing, so he gestured to us, and we sat down and prayed following his prayer, seated. When he said the taslim, he said: “You were about to do what the Persians and Romans do: they stand before their kings while the kings are seated. Do not do that. Follow your imam. If he prays standing, then pray standing; and if he prays seated, then pray seated.”
Grades by grader
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Sound | hadithunlocked |
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| Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr | Sound Chainin صحيح ابن حبان, p. 2127 | hadithunlocked |
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in some reports from them: 68 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 72 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī in another report: 73 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān said: 77 AH. Abū ʿAwn al-Madanī and others said: 78 AH. Abū Nuʿaym and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in another report said: 79 AHجَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابيعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq), except that he practiced concealment (yudallis)d. before 126 AH, or 128 AHأَبِي الزُّبَيْرِصدوق إلا أنه يدلسعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh), a well-known imamd. 175 AH, or 176 AH, or 177 AHاللَّيْثُ بْنُ سَعْدٍثقة ثبت ، فقيه إمام مشهورحدثني
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 232 AH or after it, also said: 233 AH; also said: 237 AHيَزِيدُ بْنُ مَوْهَبٍثقه عابد .حدثنا
- d. 310 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ قُتَيْبَةَأخبرنا
- d. 354 AHابن حبان
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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