al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 920
✧ The Fear Prayer
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وَقَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ: حَدَّثَنَا شَرِيكٌ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، عَنْ سُلَيْمِ بْنِ عَبْدٍ، عَنْ حُذَيْفَةَ ؓ قَالَ:
صَلَاةُ الْخَوْفِ رَكْعَتَانِ وَأَرْبَعُ سَجَدَاتٍ، وَإِنْ أَعْجَلَهُ أَمْرٌ فَقَدْ حَلَّ الْقِتَالُ [وَالْكَلَامُ]
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Dāwud
- Sharīk
- Abū Isḥāq
- Sulaym b. ʿAbd
- Ḥudhayfah
✧ The fear prayer is two rak'ahs and four prostrations. If a matter hastens him, fighting [and speaking] has become permissible.
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Narrators
- An eminent Companion (ṣaḥābī), among the earliest to accept Islamd. 36 AH, also said 35 AH, and al-Ṭabarī considered it an errorحُذَيْفَةُ بْنُ الْيَمَانِصحابي جليل من السابقينعن
- سُلَيْمِ بْنِ عَبْدٍعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir), devout (ʿābid); his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his lifed. Ibn ʿUyaynah said 126 AH, Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd said 127 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said 128 AH, ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said 129 AH, Ibn Maʿīn said 132 AHأَبِي إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخرهعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq) who made many mistakes (yukhṭiʾ kathīran); his memory changed after he was appointed judge of Kufa; he was just, virtuous, devout, and severe against the people of innovation (ahl al-bidaʿ)d. 177 AH, or 178 AHشَرِيكٌصدوق يخطئ كثيرا , تغير حفظه منذ ولي القضاء بالكوفة ، وكان عادلا فاضلا عابدا شديدا على أهل البدعحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), who erred in some hadithsd. 203 AH, or 204 AHأَبُو دَاوُدَثقة حافظ , غلط في أحاديث
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