al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 925
✧ The Rain Prayer
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وَقَالَ أَبُو يَعْلَى: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو خَيْثَمَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ، عَنِ الرَّبِيعِ بْنِ صُبَيْحٍ، عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ أَبَانَ هُوَ الرَّقَاشِيُّ، عَنْ أَنَسٍ ؓ قَالَ: إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ - ﷺ
كَانَ يَتَمَطَّرُ فِي أَوَّلِ مَطَرِهِ فَيَنْـزِعُ ثِيَابَهُ إِلَّا الْإِزَارَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Yaʿlá
- Abū Khaythamah
- Wakīʿ
- al-Rabīʿ b. Ṣubayḥ
- Yazīd b. Abān
- al-Raqāshī
- Anas
- In Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ He used to expose himself to the first rain, taking off his clothes except for the waist-wrapper.
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- Ibn Rajab
في إسناده يزيد الرقاشي ضعيف جدا
in المطالب العالية, p. 925
Other narrations of this report
Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 26698Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 26699Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 26700
Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AHأَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهورعن
- ascetic (zāhid), weak (ḍaʿīf)d. before 120 AHيَزِيدَ بْنِ أَبَانَ هُوَ الرَّقَاشِيُّزاهد ، ضعيفعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), poor memory (sayyiʾ al-ḥifẓ), and he was a devout worshipper and a mujāhidd. 160 AHالرَّبِيعِ بْنِ صُبَيْحٍصدوق ، سيئ الحفظ ، وكان عابدا مجاهداعن
- Trustworthy, a memorizer, devout (thiqah ḥāfiẓ ʿābid)d. 196 AH, or 197 AH, or 198 AHوَكِيعٌثقة حافظ عابدحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 234 AH, also said: 232 AHأَبُو خَيْثَمَةَثقة ثبتحدثنا
- d. 307 AHأَبُو يَعْلَى
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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