Muwatta' Malik 8-26
The Middle Prayer
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حَدَّثَنِي يَحْيَى عَنْ مَالِكٍ عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ أَسْلَمَ عَنِ الْقَعْقَاعِ بْنِ حَكِيمٍ عَنْ أَبِي يُونُسَ مَوْلَى عَائِشَةَ أُمِّ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ أَنَّهُ قَالَ
أَمَرَتْنِي عَائِشَةُ أَنْ أَكْتُبَ لَهَا مُصْحَفًا ثُمَّ قَالَتْ إِذَا بَلَغْتَ هَذِهِ الآيَةَ فَآذِنِّي حَافِظُوا عَلَى الصَّلَوَاتِ وَالصَّلاَةِ الْوُسْطَى وَقُومُوا لِلَّهِ قَانِتِينَ فَلَمَّا بَلَغْتُهَا آذَنْتُهَا فَأَمْلَتْ عَلَىَّ حَافِظُوا عَلَى الصَّلَوَاتِ وَالصَّلاَةِ الْوُسْطَى وَصَلاَةِ الْعَصْرِ وَقُومُوا لِلَّهِ قَانِتِينَ قَالَتْ عَائِشَةُ سَمِعْتُهَا مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Yaḥyá
- Mālik
- Zayd b. Aslam
- al-Qaʿqāʿ b. Ḥakīm
- Abū Yūnus a freed slave of ʿĀʾishah
Yahya related to me from Malik from Zayd ibn Aslam from al-Qaqa ibn Hakim that Abu Yunus, the mawla of A'isha, umm al-muminin said, ''A'isha ordered me to write out a Qur'an for her. She said, 'When you reach this ayat, let me know, "Guard the prayers carefully and the middle prayer and stand obedient to Allah." ' When I reached it I told her, and she dictated to me, 'Guard the prayers carefully and the middle prayer and the asr prayer and stand obedient to Allah.' A'isha said, 'I heard it from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.' "
Grades by grader
| Mālik b. Anas | Sound | hadithunlocked |
|---|---|---|
| Salim al-Hilali | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- Qurṭubī
وقد اتفق المسلمون كافة على أن قولها وصلاة العصر ليس قرآنا اليوم يتلى وإنما هي رواية شاذة انفردت بها وبرفعها إلى النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم وغايتها أن تكون خبرا إلا أنها قد رفعتها وأسندتها
machine translationAll the Muslims have agreed that her words "and the ʿAṣr prayer" are not Qur'an recited today. Rather, it is an irregular (shādhdh) report which she alone transmitted, and she alone traced it back to the Prophet ﷺ. At most it can be a report (khabar), except that she raised it (marfūʿ) and attributed it with a chain (musnad).
in موطأ مالك, p. 293 - Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr
صحيح لا أعلم فيه اختلافا
machine translationAuthentic (ṣaḥīḥ); I know of no disagreement about it.
in موطأ مالك, p. 293
Other narrations of this report
Sahih Muslim 628Musnad Ahmad 4365al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 11938al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 7368Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 8685Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 2215
Narrators
- Mother of the Believers, the most knowledgeable woman in jurisprudence absolutely (afqah al-nisāʾ muṭlaqan)d. 57 AH, or 58 AHعَائِشَةُ بِنْتُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِأم المؤمنين ، أفقه النساء مطلقاقال
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 91 and 100 AHأَبِي يُونُسَ مَوْلَى عَائِشَةَثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 101 and 110 AHالْقَعْقَاعِ بْنِ حَكِيمٍثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a scholar, and he would narrate with omission of the Companion link (yursil)d. 135 AH or 136 AHزَيْدِ بْنِ أَسْلَمَثقة عالم ، وكان يرسلعن
- 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
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Commentaries
al-Tamhīd (Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr)
al-Istidhkār
Sharḥ al-Zarqāni (ʿAbd al-Bāqī)
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