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Sahih Muslim 428

The Prohibition On Lifting Ones Gaze To The Heavens When in Salat

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ وَأَبُو كُرَيْبٍ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ عَنِ الْمُسَيَّبِ عَنْ تَمِيمِ بْنِ طَرَفَةَ عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ سَمُرَةَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ

لَيَنْتَهِيَنَّ أَقْوَامٌ يَرْفَعُونَ أَبْصَارَهُمْ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ فِي الصَّلاَةِ أَوْ لاَ تَرْجِعُ إِلَيْهِمْ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah and ʾAbū Kurayb
  2. Abū Muʿāwiyah
  3. al-Aʿmash
  4. al-Musayyab
  5. Tamīm b. Ṭarafah
  6. Jābir b. Samurah
  7. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: The people who lift their eyes towards the sky in Prayer should avoid it or they would lose their eyesight.

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Other narrations of this report

Sunan an-Nasa'i 1193Musnad Ahmad 21127Musnad Ahmad 21167Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 549Musnad Abi Ya'la 2966Musnad Abi Ya'la 3193

Narrators

  1. Jābir b. Samurah al-Suwāʾī
    Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Ḥākim said: 72 AH, from Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ: 73 AH, Abū Bakr b. Manjawayh and others said: 74 AH. It is reported from Abū ʿUbayd that he said: 66 AH, and that is a mistake
    جَابِرُ بْنُ سَمُرَةَ السُّوَائِيُّصحابي
    عن
  2. Tamīm b. Ṭarafah
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. 93 AH, or 94 AH, or 95 AH
    تَمِيمِ بْنِ طَرَفَةَثقة
    عن
  3. al-Musayyib b. Rāfiʿ al-Kāhilī
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. 105 AH
    الْمُسَيِّبِثقة
    عن
  4. al-Aʿmash
    Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AH
    الْأَعْمَشِثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلس
    عن
  5. Abū Muʿāwiyah
    Trustworthy (thiqah), the best memorizer of people for the hadith of al-Aʿmash, though he may err in the hadith of othersd. 194 AH, or 195 AH
    أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَثقة ، أحفظ الناس لحديث الأعمش ، وقد يهم في حديث غيره
    حدثنا
  6. Abū Kurayb
    trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 248 AH. Also said: 247 AH, which is a mistake
    ، وَأَبُو كُرَيْبٍثقة حافظ
    حدثنا
  7. Muslim
    Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam, an author of compilations, knowledgeable in jurisprudence (fiqh)d. Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb said: 261 AH, Makkī b. ʿAbdān said: 259 AH
    مُسْلِمٌثقة حافظ ، إمام ، مصنف ، عالم بالفقه

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