Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 362
✧ The virtue of prostration in prayer and the erasure of sins thereby along with the raising of ranks in Paradise
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أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو طَاهِرٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَمَّارٍ الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ حُرَيْثٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْأَوْزَاعِيُّ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ هِشَامٍ الْمُعَيْطِيُّ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي مَعْدَانُ بْنُ أَبِي طَلْحَةَ الْيَعْمَرِيُّ قَالَ:
لَقِيتُ ثَوْبَانَ مَوْلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ، فَقُلْتُ لَهُ: دُلَّنِي عَلَى عَمَلٍ يَنْفَعُنِي اللهُ بِهِ - أَوْ يُدْخِلُنِي الْجَنَّةَ - قَالَ: فَأَسْكَتَ عَنِّي ثَلَاثًا، ثُمَّ الْتَفَتَ إِلَيَّ؛ فَقَالَ: عَلَيْكَ بِالسُّجُودِ، فَإِنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: مَا مِنْ عَبْدٍ يَسْجُدُ لِلهِ سَجْدَةً إِلَّا رَفَعَهُ اللهُ بِهَا دَرَجَةً وَحَطَّ عَنْهُ بِهَا خَطِيئَةً
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Chain of narrators
- Abū Ṭāhir
- Abū ʿAmmār al-Ḥusayn b. Ḥurayth
- al-Walīd b. Muslim
- al-Awzāʿī
- al-Walīd b. Hishām al-Muʿayṭī
- Maʿdān b. Abū Ṭalḥah al-Yaʿmarī
✧ I met Thawban, the freedman of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and said to him: "Guide me to a deed by which Allah will benefit me – or admit me to Paradise." He said: He remained silent for a while, then turned to me and said: "You should prostrate, for I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: 'There is no servant who prostrates to Allah a single prostration except that Allah raises him a degree thereby and wipes away a sin thereby.'"
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- Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn al-Bayhaqī
هذا حديث مختلف في إسناده فإن صح فهو محمول على القيء عامدا وكأنه صلى الله عليه وسلم كان صائما تطوعا وقال في موضع آخر إسناده مضطرب ولا تقوم به حجة
machine translationThis is a hadith whose chain is disputed. If it is authentic (ṣaḥīḥ), it is taken to refer to intentional vomiting, and it is as if he ﷺ was fasting a voluntary fast. And he said in another place: "Its chain is inconsistent (muḍṭarib), and no proof can be established by it."
in صحيح ابن خزيمة, p. 362
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- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 54 AH, also said: 44 AH, also said 45 AHثَوْبَانُ بْنُ بُجْدُدَ مَوْلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِصحابيصريح في السماع
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 61 AH, and: 80 AHمَعْدَانُ بْنُ أَبِي طَلْحَةَ الْيَعْمَرِيُّثقةحدثني
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. lived until the reign of Marwān b. Muḥammad, between 121 and 130 AHالْوَلِيدُ بْنُ هِشَامٍ ج١ / ص٤١٨الْمُعَيْطِيُّثقةحدثني
- trustworthy (thiqah), eminentd. 157 AH, also said: 151 AH, also said: 155 AH, also said: 156 AHالْأَوْزَاعِيُّثقة جليلحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), but he very often practiced concealment (tadlīs) and levelling (taswiyah).d. 194, or 195 AH, or 196 AHالْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍثقة ، لكنه كثير التدليس والتسويةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 244 AHأَبُو عَمَّارٍ الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ حُرَيْثٍثقةحدثنا
- d. 311 AHابن خزيمة
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