Sunan Ibn Majah 960
Prohibition of bowing or prostrating before the Imam
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ
كَانَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ يُعَلِّمُنَا أَنْ لاَ نُبَادِرَ الإِمَامَ بِالرُّكُوعِ وَالسُّجُودِ وَإِذَا كَبَّرَ فَكَبِّرُوا وَإِذَا سَجَدَ فَاسْجُدُوا
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah
- Muḥammad b. ʿUbayd
- al-Aʿmash
- Abū Ṣāliḥ
- Abū Hurayrah
“The Prophet ﷺ used to teach us not to bow or prostrate before the Imam; when he says the Takbir then say the Takbir, and when he prostrates, you should prostrate.”
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