al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 423
✧ When the child is commanded to pray
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قَالَ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنِيعٍ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ مُوسَى، ثَنَا ابْنُ لَهِيعَةَ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْحَارِثِ، قَالَ: إِنَّ سَعِيدَ بْنَ أَبِي هِلَالٍ أَخْبَرَهُ عَنْ رَجُلٍ مِنْهُمْ، عَنْ عَمِّهِ، قَالَ:
سَأَلْنَا رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ عَنْ صَلَاةِ الصِّبْيَانِ ؟ قَالَ: « إِذَا عَرَفَ أَحَدُهُمْ يَمِينَهُ مِنْ شِمَالِهِ فَمُرُوهُ بِالصَّلَاةِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad b. Manīʿ
- al-Ḥasan b. Mūsá
- Ibn Lahīʿah
- ʿAmr b. al-Ḥārith
- In Saʿīd b. Abū Hilāl
- a man Minhum
- his uncle
✧ We asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ about the prayer of children. He said: "When one of them knows his right hand from his left, then command him to pray."
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- Ibn Rajab
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machine translationThere is an unknown narrator (jahālah) in its chain of transmission.
in المطالب العالية, p. 423
Other narrations of this report
al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 275Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 3507Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 7345Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 7347Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 7348al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 5173
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)أَحَدُ الصَّحَابَةِصحابيعن
- رجلعن
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 130 AH, or 133 AH, also said: before 130 AH, also said: 135 AH, also said: 149 AHسَعِيدَ بْنَ أَبِي هِلَالٍصدوقأخبره
- trustworthy (thiqah), jurist, ḥāfiẓd. 147 AH, or 148 AH, or 149 AHعَمْرِو بْنِ الْحَارِثِثقة فقيه حافظعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq); his memory became confused after his books were burned (khallaṭa baʿda iḥtirāq kutubihi); the narrations of Ibn al-Mubārak and Ibn Wahb from him are more sound than those of others.d. 173 AH, or 174 AH, also said 170 AH, also said 175 AHابْنُ لَهِيعَةَصدوق ، خلط بعد احتراق كتبه ، ورواية ابن المبارك وابن وهب عنه أعدل من غيرهماحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 208 AH, or: 209, or: 210 AHالْحَسَنُ بْنُ مُوسَىثقةحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 244 AH, or 243 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنِيعٍثقة حافظ
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