al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 515
✧ The command to follow the imam in his actions
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وَقَالَ عَبْدُ بْنُ حُمَيْدٍ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْلَمَةَ، ثَنَا خَالِدُ بْنُ إِلْيَاسَ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ عُبَيْدِ بْنِ رِفَاعَةَ قَالَ:
دَخَلْتُ عَلَى جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ ؓ، فَوَجَدْتُهُ جَالِسًا يُصَلِّي لِأَصْحَابِهِ الْعَصْرَ، وَهُمْ جُلُوسٌ: قَالَ: فَنَظَرْتُ حَتَّى سَلَّمَ ثُمَّ قُلْتُ: غَفَرَ اللهُ لَكَ، أَنْتَ صَاحِبُ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ تُصَلِّي بِهِمْ وَأَنْتَ جَالِسٌ ؟ قَالَ: أَنَا مَرِيضٌ، فَجَلَسْتُ، فَأَمَرْتُهُمْ أَنْ يَجْلِسُوا، إِنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: « الْإِمَامُ جُنَّةٌ، فَإِذَا صَلَّى قَائِمًا فَصَلُّوا قِيَامًا، وَإِنْ صَلَّى جَالِسًا فَصَلُّوا جُلُوسًا
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Chain of narrators
- ʿAbd b. Ḥumayd
- ʿAbdullāh b. Maslamah
- Khālid b. Ilyās
- Ibrāhīm b. ʿUbayd b. Rifāʿah
✧ I entered upon Jabir b. Abdullah ؓ and found him sitting while leading his companions in the afternoon prayer, and they were sitting. He said: I watched until he said the salam, then I said: May Allah forgive you, you are a companion of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and you lead them in prayer while sitting? He said: I am ill, so I sat and ordered them to sit. I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: 'The imam is a shield; if he prays standing, then pray standing, and if he prays sitting, then pray sitting.'
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