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Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 1662

✧ Clarification That the Greater the Number in Congregational Prayer, the Better the Prayer

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أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو طَاهِرٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الْمُبَارَكِ الْمُخَرِّمِيُّ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ آدَمَ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا زُهَيْرٌ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ:

قَدِمْتُ الْمَدِينَةَ فَلَقِيتُ أُبَيَّ بْنَ كَعْبٍ، فَقُلْتُ: يَا أَبَا الْمُنْذِرِ ! حَدِّثْنِي أَعْجَبَ حَدِيثٍ سَمِعْتَهُ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ، فَقَالَ: صَلَّى لَنَا - أَوْ صَلَّى بِنَا - رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ صَلَاةَ الْفَجْرِ، ثُمَّ الْتَفَتَ، فَقَالَ: " أَشَاهِدٌ فُلَانٌ ؟ " قُلْنَا: لَا، وَلَمْ يَشْهَدِ الصَّلَاةَ قَالَ: " أَشَاهِدٌ فُلَانٌ ؟ " قُلْنَا: لَا، وَلَمْ يَشْهَدِ الصَّلَاةَ، فَقَالَ: إِنَّ أَثْقَلَ الصَّلَاةِ عَلَى الْمُنَافِقِينَ صَلَاةُ الْعِشَاءِ وَصَلَاةُ الْفَجْرِ، وَلَوْ يَعْلَمُونَ مَا فِيهِمَا لَأَتَوْهُمَا وَلَوْ حَبْوًا، إِنَّ صَفَّ الْمُقَدَّمِ عَلَى مِثْلِ صَفِّ الْمَلَائِكَةِ، وَلَوْ تَعْلَمُونَ فَضِيلَتَهُ لَابْتَدَرْتُمُوهُ، وَإِنَّ صَلَاتَكَ مَعَ رَجُلٍ أَزْكَى مِنْ صَلَاتِكَ وَحْدَكَ، وَصَلَاتَكَ مَعَ رَجُلَيْنِ أَزْكَى مِنْ صَلَاتِكَ مَعَ رَجُلٍ، وَمَا [أَكْثَرْتَ] فَهُوَ أَحَبُّ إِلَى اللهِ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Abū Ṭāhir
  2. Abū Bakr
  3. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. al-Mubārak al-Mukharrimī
  4. Yaḥyá b. Ādam
  5. Zuhayr
  6. Abū Isḥāq
  7. ʿAbdullāh b. Abū Baṣīr
  8. his father

✧ I came to Madinah and met Ubayy b. Ka‘b. I said: O Abu al-Mundhir! Tell me the most amazing hadith you heard from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. He said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ prayed the Fajr prayer with us – or led us – then he turned and said: “Is so-and-so present?” We said: No, and he did not attend the prayer. He said: “Is so-and-so present?” We said: No, and he did not attend the prayer. Then he said: “The heaviest prayers upon the hypocrites are the ‘Isha prayer and the Fajr prayer. If they knew what is in them, they would come to them even if crawling. The first row is like the row of the angels, and if you knew its virtue you would race to it. Your prayer with one man is purer than your prayer alone, and your prayer with two men is purer than your prayer with one man, and the more [you increase], the more beloved it is to Allah.”

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