al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 919
✧ The Fear Prayer
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وَقَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ: حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بِشْرٍ، حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدٌ، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي الْعَالِيَةِ الرِّيَاحِيِّ، قَالَ:
إِنَّ أَبَا مُوسَى ؓ كَانَ بِالدَّارِ مِنْ أَصْبَهَانَ وَمَا كَانَ بِهَا يَوْمَئِذٍ كَبِيرُ خَوْفٍ، وَلَكِنْ أَحَبَّ أَنْ يُعَلِّمَهُمْ دِينَهُمْ وَسُنَّةَ نَبِيِّهِمْ ﷺ فَجَعَلَهُمْ صَفَّيْنِ، طَائِفَةً مَعَهَا السِّلَاحُ مُقْبِلَةً عَلَى عَدُوِّهَا، وَطَائِفَةً مِنْ قُدَّامِهِ، فَصَلَّى بِالَّذِينَ يَلُونَهُ رَكْعَةً، ثُمَّ نَكَصُوا عَلَى أَدْبَارِهِمْ حَتَّى قَامُوا مَقَامَ الْآخَرِينَ يَتَخَلَّلُونَهُمْ، حَتَّى قَامُوا وَرَاءَهُ فَصَلَّى بِهِمْ رَكْعَةً أُخْرَى، ثُمَّ سَلَّمَ، فَقَامَ الَّذِينَ يَلُونَهُ وَالْآخَرُونَ فَصَلَّوْا رَكْعَةً رَكْعَةً، ثُمَّ سَلَّمَ بَعْضُهُمْ عَلَى بَعْضٍ، فَتَمَّتْ لِلْإِمَامِ رَكْعَتَانِ فِي جَمَاعَةٍ وَلِلنَّاسِ رَكْعَةٌ رَكْعَةٌ
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Chain of narrators
- Abū Bakr
- Muḥammad b. Bishr
- Saʿīd
- Qatādah
- Abū al-ʿĀliyah al-Riyāḥī
✧ Abu Musa ؓ was at al-Dar in Isfahan, and there was no great fear there that day, but he wanted to teach them their religion and the Sunnah of their Prophet ﷺ. He arranged them in two rows: one group with weapons facing their enemy, and another group in front of him. He prayed one rak'ah with those next to him, then they moved backwards walking on their heels until they stood in the place of the others, passing through them, until they stood behind him. He then prayed another rak'ah with them and said the salam. Then those who had been next to him and the others stood up and prayed one rak'ah each, then some of them said salam to the others. Thus the imam completed two rak'ahs in congregation, and the people completed one rak'ah each.
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- Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
رجاله ثقات إلا أن فيه انقطاعا بين أبي العالية وأبي موسى رضي الله عنه
in المطالب العالية, p. 919
Other narrations of this report
Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 1542Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 1543al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 7482Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 8359al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 6089al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 6136
Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 42 AH, or 44 AH, or 50 AH, or 52 AH, or 53 AH, also said 49 AH, also said 51 AHأَبُو مُوسَى الْأَشْعَرِيُّصحابي مشهورصريح في السماع
- trustworthy (thiqah), frequently narrates mursald. 90 AH, or: 93 AH, or: 96 AH, or: 98 AH, or: 106 AH, or: 111 AHأَبِي الْعَالِيَةِ الرِّيَاحِيِّثقة ، كثير الإرسالعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 117 AH, or: 118 AHقَتَادَةَثقة ثبتعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of several works; however, he committed concealment (tadlīs) very often and his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa), and he was among the most reliable of people in narrating from Qatādahd. 150 AH or 155 AH or 156 AH or 157 AHسَعِيدٌثقة حافظ ، له تصانيف ؛ لكنه كثير التدليس واختلط ، وكان من أثبت الناس في قتادةحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 203 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بِشْرٍثقة حافظحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of works (ṣāḥib taṣānīf)d. 235 AH, or 234 AHأَبُو بَكْرٍثقة حافظ ، صاحب تصانيف
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