Sahih Muslim 756b

Translation

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was asked about the prayer which was most excellent. He said: That in which the standing is longer. (This hadith is narrated by another chain of transmitters too.)

Notes

• قَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ

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Same hadith, other wordings

• Jami at-Tirmidzi 387قِيلَ لِلنَّبِيِّ ﷺ أَىُّ الصَّلاَةِ أَفْضَلُ قَالَ طُولُ الْقُنُوتِ
• Sunan Ibnu Majah 1421سُئِلَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ أَىُّ الصَّلاَةِ أَفْضَلُ قَالَ طُولُ الْقُنُوتِ
• Sunan Abu Dawud 1449أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ سُئِلَ أَىُّ الأَعْمَالِ أَفْضَلُ قَالَ طُولُ الْقِيَامِ قِيلَ فَأَىُّ الصَّدَقَةِ أَفْضَلُ قَالَ جُهْدُ الْمُقِلِّ قِيلَ فَأَىُّ الْهِجْرَةِ أَفْضَلُ قَالَ مَنْ هَجَرَ مَا حَرَّمَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ قِيلَ فَأَىُّ الْجِهَاد
• Misykatul Mashabih 3833وَعَن عبدِ الله بنِ حُبَشيٍّ: أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ سُئِلَ أَيُّ الْأَعْمَالِ أَفْضَلُ؟ قَالَ: «طُولُ الْقِيَامِ» قِيلَ: فَأَيُّ الصَّدَقَةِ أَفْضَلُ؟ قَالَ: «جُهْدُ الْمُقِلِّ» قِيلَ: فَأَيُّ الْهِجْرَةِ أَفْضَ
• Sunan an-Nasa'i 4986أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ سُئِلَ أَىُّ الأَعْمَالِ أَفْضَلُ فَقَالَ إِيمَانٌ لاَ شَكَّ فِيهِ وَجِهَادٌ لاَ غُلُولَ فِيهِ وَحَجَّةٌ مَبْرُورَةٌ

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

1. 1
   Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr b. Ḥarām al-Anṣārī

   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 AH
   جَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابي
   عن
2. 2
   Abū Sufyān

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. between 111 and 120 AH
   أَبِي سُفْيَانَصدوق
   عن
3. 3
   al-Aʿmash

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AH
   الْأَعْمَشُثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلس
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Abū Muʿāwiyah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), the best memorizer of people for the hadith of al-Aʿmash, though he may err in the hadith of othersd. 194 AH, or 195 AH
   أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَثقة ، أحفظ الناس لحديث الأعمش ، وقد يهم في حديث غيره
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Abū Kurayb

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 248 AH. Also said: 247 AH, which is a mistake
   ، وَأَبُو كُرَيْبٍثقة حافظ
   حدثنا
6. 6
   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

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.