Sunan Ibn Majah 1231
The prayer of the one who sits is equivalent to half of the Prayer of one who stands
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حَدَّثَنَا بِشْرُ بْنُ هِلاَلٍ الصَّوَّافُ حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ زُرَيْعٍ عَنْ حُسَيْنٍ الْمُعَلِّمِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ بُرَيْدَةَ عَنْ عِمْرَانَ بْنِ حُصَيْنٍ
أَنَّهُ سَأَلَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ عَنِ الرَّجُلِ يُصَلِّي قَاعِدًا قَالَ مَنْ صَلَّى قَائِمًا فَهُوَ أَفْضَلُ وَمَنْ صَلَّى قَاعِدًا فَلَهُ نِصْفُ أَجْرِ الْقَائِمِ وَمَنْ صَلَّى نَائِمًا فَلَهُ نِصْفُ أَجْرِ الْقَاعِدِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Bishr b. Hilāl al-Ṣawaāf
- Yazīd b. Zurayʿ
- Ḥusayn al-Muʿallim
- ʿAbdullāh b. Buraydah
- ʿImrān b. Ḥuṣayn
It was narrated from ‘Imran bin Husain that he asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ about a man who prays sitting down. He said, “Whoever performs prayer standing up, that is better. Whoever performs prayer sitting down will have half the reward of one who prays standing. And whoever performs prayer lying down will have half the reward of one who prays sitting.”
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Sound | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Hasan Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr
هو حديث لم يروه إلا حسين المعلم وهو حسين بن ذكوان عن عبد الله بن بريدة عن عمران بن حصين وقد اختلف أيضا على حسين المعلم في إسناده ولفظه اختلافا يوجب التوقف عنه وإن صح حديث حسين عن ابن بريدة عن عمران بن حصين هذا فلا أدري ما وجهه
machine translationThis is a hadith that only Ḥusayn al-Muʿallim narrated, who is Ḥusayn b. Dhakwān, from ʿAbdullāh b. Buraydah, from ʿImrān b. Ḥuṣayn. There is also disagreement about Ḥusayn al-Muʿallim concerning its chain and its wording, a disagreement that requires withholding judgement on it. And if the hadith of Ḥusayn from Ibn Buraydah from ʿImrān b. Ḥuṣayn is authentic, then I do not know what its explanation is.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1288 - ابن اللجام علي بن خلف القرطبي
قوله من صلى نائما فله نصف أجر القاعد فلا يصح معناه عند العلماء لأنهم مجمعون على أن النافلة لا يصليها القادر على القيام إيماء وإنما دخل الوهم على ناقل الحديث
machine translationAs for his statement, "Whoever prays lying down will have half the reward of the one who prays sitting," its meaning is not sound according to the scholars, because they are unanimously agreed that a person who is able to stand may not pray a voluntary prayer by gesturing. Rather, the error entered through the one who transmitted the hadith.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1288
Other narrations of this report
Sunan an-Nasa'i 1660al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 16709al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 7123Musnad al-Bazzar 6189al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 1366al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 1368
Narrators
- embraced Islam in the year of Khaybar, accompanied the Prophet ﷺ, and was virtuousd. 52 AH, Ibn Mandah related a view that he died in the year (53) AHعِمْرَان بْن حُصَيْن بْن عُبَيْد بْن خَلَف الْخُزَاعِيّأسلم عام خيبر وصحب وكان فاضلاعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 105 AH, or 115 AHعَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ بُرَيْدَةَثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), though he sometimes erred (rubbamā wahima)d. 145 AHحُسَيْنٍ الْمُعَلِّمِثقة ، ربما وهمعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt).d. 182 AH, also said: 183 AH.يَزِيدُ بْنُ زُرَيْعٍثقة ثبت .حدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 247 AHبِشْرُ بْنُ هِلَالٍ الصَّوَّافُثقةحدثنا
- one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AHابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.
Commentaries
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd
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