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Sahih Muslim 674a

Who is more entitled to lead the prayer

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وَحَدَّثَنِي زُهَيْرُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ حَدَّثَنَا أَيُّوبُ عَنْ أَبِي قِلاَبَةَ عَنْ مَالِكِ بْنِ الْحُوَيْرِثِ قَالَ

أَتَيْنَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ وَنَحْنُ شَبَبَةٌ مُتَقَارِبُونَ فَأَقَمْنَا عِنْدَهُ عِشْرِينَ لَيْلَةً وَكَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ رَحِيمًا رَقِيقًا فَظَنَّ أَنَّا قَدِ اشْتَقْنَا أَهْلَنَا فَسَأَلَنَا عَنْ مَنْ تَرَكْنَا مِنْ أَهْلِنَا فَأَخْبَرْنَاهُ فَقَالَ ارْجِعُوا إِلَى أَهْلِيكُمْ فَأَقِيمُوا فِيهِمْ وَعَلِّمُوهُمْ وَمُرُوهُمْ فَإِذَا حَضَرَتِ الصَّلاَةُ فَلْيُؤَذِّنْ لَكُمْ أَحَدُكُمْ ثُمَّ لْيَؤُمَّكُمْ أَكْبَرُكُمْ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Zuhayr b. Ḥarb
  2. Ismāʿīl b. Ibrāhīm
  3. Ayyūb
  4. Abū Qilābah
  5. Mālik b. al-Ḥūwayrith

We came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and we were all young men of nearly equal age. We stayed with him (the Holy Prophet) for twenty nights, and as the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was extremely kind and tender of heart, he therefore, thought that we were eager (to see) our family (we felt homesick). So he asked us about the members of the family that we had left behind and when we informed him, he said: Go back to your family, stay with them, and teach them (beliefs and practices of Islam) and exhort them to good, and when the time for prayer comes, one amongst you should announce Adhan and then the oldest among you should lead the prayer.

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Narrators

  1. Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. in al-Taqrīb: 74 AH, and in al-Iṣābah: 64 AH, and miswritten in al-Istīʿāb: 94 AH
    مَالِك بْن الحُوَيْرِث اللَّيْثِيصحابي
    عن
  2. Trustworthy (thiqah), excellent, who often narrated mursal reports (kathīr al-irsāl)d. 104 AH, or 105 AH, or 106 AH, or 107 AH
    أَبِي قِلَابَةَثقة فاضل ، كثير الإرسال
    عن
  3. Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), an authority (ḥujjah), one of the leading jurists and devout worshippersd. 130 AH, or 131 AH, or 132 AH, also said: 124 AH, also said: 125 AH, also said: 129 AH
    أَيُّوبُثقة ثبت حجة ، من كبار الفقهاء العباد
    حدثنا
  4. trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 193 AH, or 194 AH
    إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَثقة حافظ
    حدثنا
  5. trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 234 AH, also said: 232 AH
    زُهَيْرُ بْنُ حَرْبٍثقة ثبت
    حدثني
  6. 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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Commentaries

Dalīl al-Fāliḥīn (Ibn ʿAllān)
شرح مشكل الآثار
al-Minhāj (Nawawī)
al-Mufham (Abū al-ʿAbbās)

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