Muwatta' Malik 5-20

Translation

Yahya related to me from Malik from Nafi from Abdullah ibn Abi Bakr ibn Hazm from whoever related it to him that Abu Hurayra used to say, "It is better for a man to pray on the surface of al Harra (a rocky area in Madina) than for him to wait until the imam stands to give the khutba and then come and step over people's necks." Malik said, "The sunna with us is that the people face the imam on the day of jumua when he intends to give the khutba, whether they are near the qibla or elsewhere."

Notes

• قَالَ مَالِكٌ السُّنَّةُ عِنْدَنَا أَنْ يَسْتَقْبِلَ النَّاسُ الإِمَامَ يَوْمَ الْجُمُعَةِ إِذَا أَرَادَ أَنْ يَخْطُبَ مَنْ كَانَ مِنْهُمْ يَلِي الْقِبْلَةَ وَغَيْرَهَا

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al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 18596Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 5515Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 5516Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 5524Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 5541al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 5970

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
   ʿAmman
   عمن
   حدثه
3. 3
   ʿAbdullāh b. Abī Bakr b. Muḥammad Ibn Ḥazm

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said: 135 AH, from Ibn al-Athīr: 136 AH. In al-Ṣarīfīnī's book: 144 AH. Also said: 130 AH
   عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ أَبِي بَكْرِ بْنِ حَزْمٍثقة
   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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