Muwatta' Malik 3-61

Translation

Yahya related to me from Malik from Muhammad ibn Amr ibn AIqama from Malik ibn Abdullah as-Sadi that Abu Hurayra said, "The one who raises his head and lowers it before the imam - his forelock is in the hand of a shaytan." Malik said, concerning someone who forgot and raised his head before the imam in ruku or sujud, "The sunna of that is to return to bowing or prostrating and not to wait for the imam to come up. What he has done is a mistake, because the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, 'The imam is appointed to be followed as a leader, so do not oppose him.' Abu Hurayra said, 'The one who raises his head and lowers it before the imam - his forelock is in the hand of a shaytan.' "

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What scholars said about it

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• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  هكذا رواه مالك موقوفا لم يختلف عليه فيه ورواه الدراوردي مرفوعا ولا يصح إلا موقوفا بهذا الإسناد

  machine translationMālik narrated it in this way as a statement of a Companion (mawqūf), and there is no disagreement against him about it. Al-Darāwardī narrated it as a statement traceable to the Prophet (marfūʿ), but it is only sound as mawqūf with this chain. Report a problem

  in موطأ مالك, p. 195
• Ibn Abī Ḥatim

  قال أبي هذا خطأ كنا نظن أنه غريب ثم تبين لنا علته قلت وما علته قال حدثنا العباس بن يزيد العبدي وإياك عن ابن عيينة عن ابن عجلان قال حدثنا محمد بن عمرو عن مليح بن عبد الله عن أبي هريرة موقوف قال ابن عيينة فقدم علينا محمد بن عمرو فأتيته فسألته فحدثني عن مليح بن عبد الله عن أبي هريرة موقوف وقال أبو زرعة هذا خطأ إنما هو عن ابن عجلان عن محمد بن عمرو عن مليح عن أبي هريرة موقوف قال أبي فلو كان عند ابن عجلان عن أبيه عن أبي هريرة لم يحدث عن محمد بن عمرو عن مليح عن أبي هريرة

  machine translationMy father said: This is a mistake. We used to think it was strange (gharīb), then its defect became clear to us. I said: What is its defect? He said: Al-ʿAbbās b. Yazīd al-ʿAbdī narrated to us, and you as well, from Ibn ʿUyaynah, from Ibn ʿAjlān, who said: Muḥammad b. ʿAmr narrated to us, from Mulayḥ b. ʿAbdullāh, from Abū Hurayrah, as mawqūf. Ibn ʿUyaynah said: Muḥammad b. ʿAmr came to us, so I went to him and asked him, and he narrated to me from Mulayḥ b. ʿAbdullāh, from Abū Hurayrah, as mawqūf. And Abū Zurʿah said: This is a mistake; it is only from Ibn ʿAjlān, from Muḥammad b. ʿAmr, from Mulayḥ, from Abū Hurayrah, as mawqūf. My father said: Had Ibn ʿAjlān had it from his father, from Abū Hurayrah, he would not have narrated from Muḥammad b. ʿAmr, from Mulayḥ, from Abū Hurayrah. Report a problem

  in موطأ مالك, p. 195

Same hadith, other wordings

• Misykatul Mashabih 1149وَعنهُ قَالَ: الَّذِي يَرْفَعُ رَأْسَهُ وَيَخْفِضُهُ قَبْلَ الْإِمَامِ فَإِنَّمَا ناصيته بيد الشَّيْطَان ". رَوَاهُ مَالك

Other narrations of this report

al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 7698Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 7222Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 3782Musnad al-Bazzar 9407al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 519

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
   Malīḥ b. ʿAbdullāh
   مَلِيحِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ ج١ / ص١٢٧السَّعْدِيِّ
   عن
3. 3
   Muḥammad b. ʿAmr

   Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 144 AH, or 145 AH
   مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ عَلْقَمَةَصدوق له أوهام
   عن
4. 4
   Mālik b. Anas

   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 AH
   مَالِكٌالفقيه ، إمام دار الهجرة ، رأس المتقنين ، وكبير المتثبتين

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

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Mishkat al-Masabih 1149