Sahih Muslim 708a
It is permissible to leave to the right or left after finishing the prayer
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وَحَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَوَانَةَ عَنِ السُّدِّيِّ قَالَ
سَأَلْتُ أَنَسًا كَيْفَ أَنْصَرِفُ إِذَا صَلَّيْتُ عَنْ يَمِينِي أَوْ عَنْ يَسَارِي قَالَ أَمَّا أَنَا فَأَكْثَرُ مَا رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَنْصَرِفُ عَنْ يَمِينِهِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Qutaybah b. Saʿīd
- Abū ʿAwānah
- al-Suddī
I asked Anas how I should turn-to the right or to the left-when I say my prayers. He said: I have very often seen the Messenger of Allah ﷺ turning to the right.
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Other narrations of this report
Sunan an-Nasa'i 1359Musnad Ahmad 13985Musnad Ahmad 6660al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 19910al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 7898al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 3672
Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AHأَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهورصريح في السماع
- truthful (ṣadūq), makes errors (yahim), accused of Shiism (tashayyuʿ)d. 127 AH, or 129 AHالسُّدِّيِّصدوق ، يهم ، ورمي بالتشيععن
- trustworthy and meticulous (thiqah thabt), from the seventh generation (ṭabaqah)d. 175, or 176 AHأَبُو عَوَانَةَثقة ثبت ، من السابعةحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 240 AH, or: 241 AHقُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍثقة ثبتحدثنا
- 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 AHمُسْلِمٌثقة حافظ ، إمام ، مصنف ، عالم بالفقه
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Commentaries
al-Minhāj (Nawawī)
al-Mufham (Abū al-ʿAbbās)
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