Sahih Ibn Hibban 2153
✧ The obligation of Imam's observance
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أَخْبَرَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ إِدْرِيسَ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ عَنْ مَالِكٍ عَنْ سُمَيٍّ عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
«لَوْ يَعْلَمُ النَّاسُ مَا فِي النِّدَاءِ وَالصَّفِّ الْأَوَّلِ ثُمَّ لَمْ يَجِدُوا إِلَّا أَنْ يَسْتَهِمُوا عَلَيْهِ لَاسْتَهَمُوا وَلَوْ يَعْلَمُونَ مَا فِي التَّهْجِيرِ لَاسْتَبَقُوا إِلَيْهِ وَلَوْ يَعْلَمُونَ مَا فِي الْعَتَمَةِ وَالصُّبْحِ لَأَتَوْهُمَا وَلَوْ حَبْوًا»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- al-Ḥusayn b. Idrīs al-Anṣārī
- Aḥmad b. Abū Bakr
- Mālik
- Sumay
- Abū Ṣāliḥ
- Abū Hurayrah
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ “If people knew what is in the call to prayer and the first row, and they found no way to it except by drawing lots, they would draw lots. If they knew what is in going early, they would race to it. And if they knew what is in the late evening prayer and the dawn prayer, they would come to them even crawling.”
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What scholars said about it
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- Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr
الصف الأول ففي فضله آثار كثيرة وأحسنها حديث مالك في الاستهام عليه لأنه أرشد وندب إليه مؤكدا
in صحيح ابن حبان, p. 2158
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 57 AHأَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّصحابيعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 101 AHأَبِي صَالِحٍثقة ثبتعن
- عنtrustworthy (thiqah)d. 130 AH
- 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.