Muwatta' Malik 3-22
The Opening of the Prayer
Show the chain
وَحَدَّثَنِي عَنْ مَالِكٍ عَنْ أَبِي نُعَيْمٍ وَهْبِ بْنِ كَيْسَانَ عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ أَنَّهُ
كَانَ يُعَلِّمُهُمُ التَّكْبِيرَ فِي الصَّلاَةِ قَالَ فَكَانَ يَأْمُرُنَا أَنْ نُكَبِّرَ كُلَّمَا خَفَضْنَا وَرَفَعْنَا
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Mālik
- Abū Nuʿaym and Hb b. Kaysān
- Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh
Yahya related to me from Malik from Abu Nuaym Wahb ibn Kaysan that Jabir ibn Abdullah used to teach them the takbir in the prayer. Abu Nuaym said, "He used to tell us to say 'Allah is greater' whenever we lowered or raised ourselves."
Grades by grader
| Mālik b. Anas | Sound | hadithunlocked |
|---|---|---|
| Salim al-Hilali | Mauquf Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- Dāraquṭnī
وقول مالك أشبه
in موطأ مالك, p. 155
Other narrations of this report
Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 547al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 2353Sunan al-Daraqutni 1118Musnad al-Bazzar 3528Musnad al-Bazzar 3529
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in some reports from them: 68 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 72 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī in another report: 73 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān said: 77 AH. Abū ʿAwn al-Madanī and others said: 78 AH. Abū Nuʿaym and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in another report said: 79 AHجَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابيعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 127 AH, or 129 AHأَبِي نُعَيْمٍ وَهْبِ بْنِ كَيْسَانَثقةعن
- The jurist (al-faqīh), the Imam of the Abode of Migration (Imām Dār al-Hijrah), the head of the proficient masters, and the foremost among the meticulous.d. 178 AH, or 179 AHمَالِكٌالفقيه ، إمام دار الهجرة ، رأس المتقنين ، وكبير المتثبتين
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
al-Istidhkār
Sharḥ al-Zarqāni (ʿAbd al-Bāqī)
Read them on Hadith Unlocked