Sahih Muslim 731c
It is permissible to offer voluntary prayers standing or sitting, and to stand and sit in the same rakʿah
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ وَإِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ ابْنُ عُلَيَّةَ عَنِ الْوَلِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي هِشَامٍ عَنْ أَبِي بَكْرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ عَمْرَةَ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ قَالَتْ
كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقْرَأُ وَهُوَ قَاعِدٌ فَإِذَا أَرَادَ أَنْ يَرْكَعَ قَامَ قَدْرَ مَا يَقْرَأُ إِنْسَانٌ أَرْبَعِينَ آيَةً
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Chain of narrators
- Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah and ʾIsḥāq b. Ibrāhīm
- Abū Bakr
- Ismāʿīl Ibn ʿUlayyah
- al-Walīd b. Abū Hishām
- Abū Bakr b. Muḥammad
- ʿAmrah
- ʿĀʾishah
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to recite in sitting position (while observing the Tahajjud prayer) and when he intended to bow, he would stand up and recite (for the duration in which) a man (ordinarily) recites forty verses.
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Other narrations of this report
Sunan an-Nasa'i 1650Sunan Ibn Majah 1226Musnad Ahmad 25826Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 1415al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 4664Musnad Abi Ya'la 4886
Narrators
- Mother of the Believers, the most knowledgeable woman in jurisprudence absolutely (afqah al-nisāʾ muṭlaqan)d. 57 AH, or 58 AHعَائِشَةُ بِنْتُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِأم المؤمنين ، أفقه النساء مطلقاعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. Abū Ḥassān al-Ziyādī said: it is said she died in the year ninety-eight. Abū ʿUbayd Muḥammad b. Yaḥyá Ibn al-Ḥadhdhāʾ said: she died in 106 AH; Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim said: she died in 103 AH.عَمْرَةَثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 100 AH, or 110 AH, or 117 AH, or 120 AH, also said: 126 AHأَبِي بَكْرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍثقة عابدعن
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. between 131 and 140 AHالْوَلِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي هِشَامٍصدوقعن
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 193 AH, or 194 AHإِسْمَاعِيلُ ابْنُ عُلَيَّةَثقة حافظفي حكم العنعنة
- trustworthy, a memorizer, a mujtahid (thiqah ḥāfiẓ mujtahid)d. 237 AH, or 238 AH، وَإِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ .ثقة حافظ مجتهدحدثنا
- 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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