Sahih Muslim 756a
The best prayer is that in which one stands for a long time (tuwlul-qunut)
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حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ بْنُ حُمَيْدٍ أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَاصِمٍ أَخْبَرَنَا ابْنُ جُرَيْجٍ أَخْبَرَنِي أَبُو الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
أَفْضَلُ الصَّلاَةِ طُولُ الْقُنُوتِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAbd b. Ḥumayd
- Abū ʿĀṣim
- Ibn Jurayj
- Abū al-Zubayr
- Jābir
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
The most excellent prayer is that in which the duration of standing is longer.
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Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 800وَعَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «أَفْضَلُ الصَّلَاةِ طُولُ الْقُنُوتِ». رَوَاهُ مُسلم
Other narrations of this report
Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 20374Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 4876al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 18597al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 4765Musnad al-Bazzar 3016
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in some reports from them: 68 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 72 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī in another report: 73 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān said: 77 AH. Abū ʿAwn al-Madanī and others said: 78 AH. Abū Nuʿaym and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in another report said: 79 AHجَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابيعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq), except that he practiced concealment (yudallis)d. before 126 AH, or 128 AHأَبُو الزُّبَيْرِصدوق إلا أنه يدلسأخبرني
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), excellent (fāḍil); he used to commit concealment (tadlīs) and to narrate with omission of the Companion (irsāl).d. 149 AH or 150 AH or 151 AH or 160 AHابْنُ جُرَيْجٍثقة فقيه فاضل ، وكان يدلس ويرسلأخبرنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 211 AH, or: 212 AH, or: 213 AH, or: 214 AHأَبُو عَاصِمٍثقة ثبتأخبرنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 249 AHعَبْدُ بْنُ حُمَيْدٍثقة حافظحدثنا
- 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
Sharḥ Riyad al-Salihin (Ibn al-ʿUthaymin)
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
Dalīl al-Fāliḥīn (Ibn ʿAllān)
al-Minhāj (Nawawī)
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