Sahih Muslim 650a

The virtue of prayer in congregation, and clarifying the stern warning against staying away from it, and that it is fard kifayah

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حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ يَحْيَى قَالَ قَرَأْتُ عَلَى مَالِكٍ عَنْ نَافِعٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ

صَلاَةُ الْجَمَاعَةِ أَفْضَلُ مِنْ صَلاَةِ الْفَذِّ بِسَبْعٍ وَعِشْرِينَ دَرَجَةً

Translation

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Prayer said in a congregation is twenty-seven degrees more excellent than prayer said by a single person.

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Muslim	Sound	hadithunlocked

ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb
One of the Companions who narrated most often, and one of the ʿAbādilah; he was among the people most strict in following the narrations (athar).d. 72 AH, or 73 AH, or 74 AH, also said: 75 AH
عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِأحد المكثرين من الصحابة والعبادلة ، وكان من أشد الناس اتباعا للأثر
عن
Nāfiʿ mawlá Ibn ʿUmar
trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a well-known jurist (faqīh)d. 116 AH, or 117 AH, or 118 AH, or 119 AH, or 120 AH
نَافِعٍثقة ثبت فقيه مشهور
عن
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
قرأت على
Yaḥyā b. Yaḥyā
trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), an imam (imām).d. 226 AH, or 224 AH, or 225 AH; both of the latter two are mistaken.
يَحْيَى بْنُ يَحْيَىثقة ثبت إمام .
حدثنا
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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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.

al-Minhāj (Nawawī)

al-Mufham (Abū al-ʿAbbās)