al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 268
✧ The Great Status of Prayer
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قَالَ الْحَارِثُ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ قُتَيْبَةَ، ثَنَا سُفْيَانُ الثَّوْرِيُّ، عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ، عَنْ سَالِمِ بْنِ أَبِي الْجَعْدِ، عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ ؓ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ:
« اسْتَقِيمُوا وَلَنْ تُحْصُوا، وَاعْلَمُوا أَنَّ خَيْرَ أَعْمَالِكُمُ الصَّلَاةُ، وَلَا يُحَافِظُ عَلَى الْوُضُوءِ إِلَّا مُؤْمِنٌ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- al-Ḥārith
- al-Ḥasan b. Qutaybah
- Sufyān al-Thawrī
- Manṣūr
- Sālim b. Abū al-Jaʿd
- Ibn ʿUmar
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ "Be steadfast, and you will not be able to fully do so. Know that the best of your deeds is prayer, and no one maintains ablution except a believer."
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Other narrations of this report
Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3038Sunan Ibn Majah 279Musnad Ahmad 22414al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 14587Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 35al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 447
Narrators
- One of the Companions who narrated most often, and one of the ʿAbādilah; he was among the people most strict in following the narrations (athar).d. 72 AH, or 73 AH, or 74 AH, also said: 75 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِأحد المكثرين من الصحابة والعبادلة ، وكان من أشد الناس اتباعا للأثرعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), but he used to narrate with omission of the Companion (irsāl) frequentlyd. 99 AH, Muṭayyan said: 100 AH, also said: 101 AH. Abū Nuʿaym said: 97 AH or 98 AH, and Ibn Ḥibbān said likewise in al-Thiqātسَالِمِ بْنِ أَبِي الْجَعْدِثقة وكان يرسل كثيراعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), and he did not commit tadlīs (lā yudallis)d. 132 AH, or 133 AHمَنْصُورٍثقة ثبت ، وكان لا يدلسعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid), an imam and authority (ḥujjah)d. 159 AH or 160 AH or 161 AH or 162 AHسُفْيَانُ الثَّوْرِيُّثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجةحدثنا
- d. between 211 AH and 220 AHالْحَسَنُ بْنُ قُتَيْبَةَحدثنا
- d. 279 AH or 282 AHالْحَارِثُ
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