Sunan Abi Dawud 1046

Translation

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: The best day on which the sun has risen is Friday; on it Adam was created, on it he was expelled (from Paradise), on it his contrition was accepted, on it he died, and on it the Last Hour will take place. On Friday every beast is on the lookout from dawn to sunrise in fear of the Last Hour, but not jinn and men, and it contains a time at which no Muslim prays and asks anything from Allah but He will give it to him. Ka'b said: That is one day every year. So I said: It is on every Friday. Ka'b read the Torah and said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ has spoken the truth. AbuHurayrah said: I met Abdullah ibn Salam and told him of my meeting with Ka'b. Abdullah ibn Salam said: I know what time it is. AbuHurayrah said: I asked him to tell me about it. Abdullah ibn Salam said: It is at the very end of Friday. I asked: How can it be when the Messenger of Allah ﷺ has said: "No Muslim finds it while he is praying...." and this is the moment when no prayer is offered. Abdullah ibn Salam said: Has the Messenger of Allah ﷺ not said: "If anyone is seated waiting for the prayer, he is engaged in the prayer until he observes it." I said: Yes, it is so.

Notes

• قَالَ كَعْبٌ ذَلِكَ فِي كُلِّ سَنَةٍ يَوْمٌ. فَقُلْتُ بَلْ فِي كُلِّ جُمُعَةٍ. قَالَ فَقَرَأَ كَعْبٌ التَّوْرَاةَ فَقَالَ صَدَقَ النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم. قَالَ أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ ثُمَّ لَقِيتُ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ سَلاَمٍ فَحَدَّثْتُهُ بِمَجْلِسِي مَعَ كَعْبٍ فَقَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ سَلاَمٍ قَدْ عَلِمْتُ أَيَّةَ سَاعَةٍ هِيَ. قَالَ أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ فَقُلْتُ لَهُ فَأَخْبِرْنِي بِهَا. فَقَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ سَلاَمٍ هِيَ آخِرُ سَاعَةٍ مِنْ يَوْمِ الْجُمُعَةِ. فَقُلْتُ كَيْفَ هِيَ آخِرُ سَاعَةٍ مِنْ يَوْمِ الْجُمُعَةِ وَقَدْ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " لاَ يُصَادِفُهَا عَبْدٌ مُسْلِمٌ وَهُوَ يُصَلِّي ". وَتِلْكَ السَّاعَةُ لاَ يُصَلَّى فِيهَا. فَقَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ سَلاَمٍ أَلَمْ يَقُلْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " مَنْ جَلَسَ مَجْلِسًا يَنْتَظِرُ الصَّلاَةَ فَهُوَ فِي صَلاَةٍ حَتَّى يُصَلِّيَ ". قَالَ فَقُلْتُ بَلَى. قَالَ هُوَ ذَاكَ

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• al-Tirmidhi

  حديث صحيح

  machine translationAn authentic (ṣaḥīḥ) hadith. Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 1043
• Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

  تفرد يزيد بن الهاد عن أبي سلمة عن أبي هريرة بذلك يعني قوله بصرة بن أبي بصرة

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 1043
• Dāraquṭnī

  الصحيح حديث ابن الهاد عن محمد بن إبراهيم

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 1043

Same hadith, other wordings

• Muwaththa' Malik 5-17خَرَجْتُ إِلَى الطُّورِ فَلَقِيتُ كَعْبَ الأَحْبَارِ فَجَلَسْتُ مَعَهُ فَحَدَّثَنِي عَنِ التَّوْرَاةِ وَحَدَّثْتُهُ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَكَانَ فِيمَا حَدَّثْتُهُ أَنْ قُلْتُ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ خَيْرُ يَوْمٍ طَلَعَتْ عَلَيْهِ الشَّم
• Misykatul Mashabih 1359عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ: خَرَجْتُ إِلَى الطُّورِ فَلَقِيتُ كَعْبَ الْأَحْبَارِ فَجَلَسْتُ مَعَهُ فَحَدَّثَنِي عَنِ التَّوْرَاةِ وَحَدَّثْتُهُ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَكَانَ فِيمَا حَدَّثْتُهُ أَنْ قُلْتُ:

Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 7472Musnad Ahmad 7823Musnad Ahmad 9206al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 830

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. Salām b. al-Ḥārith al-Isrāʾīlī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 43 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ سَلَامِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ الْإِسْرَائِيلِيُّصحابي
   أخبرني
2. 2
   Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī

   The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
   أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
   عن
3. 3
   Abū Salamah b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān

   trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir)d. 94 AH, or 104 AH
   أَبِي سَلَمَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِثقة ، مكثر
   عن
4. 4
   Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. al-Ḥārith al-Taymī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), with some unique narrations (afrād)d. 119 AH, or 120 AH, or 121 AH
   مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَثقة له أفراد
   عن
5. 5
   Ibn al-Hād

   trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir)d. 139 AH.
   يَزِيدَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الْهَادِثقة مكثر .
   عن
6. 6
   Mālik b. Anas

   The jurist (al-faqīh), the Imam of the Abode of Migration (Imām Dār al-Hijrah), the head of the proficient masters, and the foremost among the meticulous.d. 178 AH, or 179 AH
   مَالِكٍالفقيه ، إمام دار الهجرة ، رأس المتقنين ، وكبير المتثبتين
   عن
7. 7
   al-Qaʿnabī

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 220 AH, or 221 AH
   الْقَعْنَبِيُّثقة عابد
   حدثنا
8. 8
   Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), the compiler of the Sunan and other works, one of the senior scholars.d. 275 AH
   أَبُو دَاوُدَ السِّجِسْتَانِيُّثقة ، حافظ , مصنف السنن وغيرها ، من كبار العلماء

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Mishkat al-Masabih 1359a