Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 979

Translation

✧ The Prophet ﷺ prayed one of the two evening prayers - and my strongest thought is that it was Zuhr - two rak'ahs. Then he came to a piece of wood in the qiblah of the mosque and placed his hands on it, one over the other. The quick people left and said, "The prayer has been shortened." Among the people were Abu Bakr and 'Umar, and they were afraid to speak to him. A man - short in hands or long - called Dhu al-Yadayn said, "Has the prayer been shortened or did you forget?" He said, "It has not been shortened and I did not forget." He said, "Rather you forgot." He said, "Has Dhu al-Yadayn spoken the truth?" He said, "Yes." So he prayed two rak'ahs, then said the salam, then said takbir and prostrated like his prostration or longer, then raised.

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• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  فإن قال قائل إن حديث ذي اليدين مضطرب لأن ابن عمر وأبا هريرة يقولان سلم من اثنتين وعمران بن حصين يقول من ثلاث ركعات ومعاوية بن حديج يقول إن المتكلم طلحة بن عبيد الله قيل له ليس اختلافهم في موضع السلام من الصلاة عند أحد من أهل العلم بخلاف يقدح في حديثهم لأن المعنى المراد من الحديث هو البناء بعد الكلام ولا فرق عند أهل العلم بين المسلم من ثلاث أو من اثنتين لأن كل واحد منهما لم يكمل صلاته وأما ما ذكر في حديث معاوية بن حديج من ذكر طلحة بن عبيد الله فممكن أن يكون أيضا طلحة كلمه وغيره وليس في أن يكلمه طلحة وغيره ما يدفع أن ذا اليدين كلمه أيضا فأدى كل ما سمع على حسب ما سمع

  machine translationIf someone says: the hadith of Dhū l-Yadayn is inconsistent (muḍṭarib), because Ibn ʿUmar and Abū Hurayrah say that he gave the salām after two units, while ʿImrān b. Ḥuṣayn says after three units, and Muʿāwiyah b. Ḥudayj says that the one who spoke was Ṭalḥah b. ʿUbaydillāh, it is said to him: their disagreement about the point of the prayer at which the salām was given is not, according to any of the people of knowledge, a disagreement that undermines their hadith, because the meaning intended by the hadith is building on the prayer after speaking. There is no difference among the people of knowledge between one who gave the salām after three or after two, because neither of them had completed his prayer. As for what is mentioned in the hadith of Muʿāwiyah b. Ḥudayj about Ṭalḥah b. ʿUbaydillāh, it is possible that Ṭalḥah and others also spoke to him, and Ṭalḥah and others speaking to him does not rule out that Dhū l-Yadayn also spoke to him. So each one reported what he heard according to what he heard. Report a problem

  in صحيح ابن خزيمة, p. 979

Other narrations of this report

Sunan an-Nasa'i 1331

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī

   The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
   أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
   عن
2. 2
   Muḥammad b. Sīrīn

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), devout (ʿābid), of great standing; he did not permit narration by meaning.d. 110 AH
   مُحَمَّدٍثقة ثبت عابد كبير القدر ، كان لا يرى الرواية بالمعنى
   عن
3. 3
   Ayyūb al-Sakhtiyānī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), an authority (ḥujjah), one of the leading jurists and devout worshippersd. 130 AH, or 131 AH, or 132 AH, also said: 124 AH, also said: 125 AH, also said: 129 AH
   أَيُّوبُثقة ثبت حجة ، من كبار الفقهاء العباد
   حدثنا
4. 4
   ʿAbd al-Wahhāb

   trustworthy (thiqah); his memory changed three years before his deathd. 194 AH or 195 AH or 184 AH
   عَبْدُ الْوَهَّابِ - يَعْنِي ابْنَ عَبْدِ الْمَجِيدِ الثَّقَفِيَّثقة ، تغير قبل موته بثلاث سنين
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Muḥammad b. Bashshār

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 252 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍثقة
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Ibn Khuzaymah

   d. 311 AH
   أَبُو بَكْرٍ

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