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Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 374

✧ The preference of praying at the beginning of its time, by mention of a report whose wording is general but whose intended meaning is specific

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أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو طَاهِرٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا بُنْدَارُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ عُمَرَ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا مَالِكُ بْنُ مِغْوَلٍ، عَنِ الْوَلِيدِ بْنِ الْعَيْزَارِ، عَنْ أَبِي عَمْرٍو الشَّيْبَانِيِّ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ:

سَأَلْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ: أَيُّ الْعَمَلِ أَفْضَلُ ؟ قَالَ: " الصَّلَاةُ فِي أَوَّلِ وَقْتِهَا

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Abū Ṭāhir
  2. Abū Bakr
  3. Bundār b. Bashhār
  4. ʿUthmān b. ʿUmar
  5. Mālik b. Mighwal
  6. al-Walīd b. al-ʿAyzār
  7. Abū ʿAmr al-Shaybānī
  8. ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd

✧ I asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ: Which deed is most excellent? He said: "Prayer at the beginning of its time."

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