al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 540
✧ Gestures in prayer
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أَخْبَرَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا اللَّيْثُ عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرٍ عَنْ جَابِرٍ
أَنَّهُ قَالَ اشْتَكَى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ فَصَلَّيْنَا وَرَاءَهُ وَهُوَ قَاعِدٌ وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ يُكَبِّرُ وَيُسْمِعُ النَّاسَ تَكْبِيرَهُ فَالْتَفَتَ إِلَيْنَا فَرَآنَا قِيَامًا فَأَشَارَ إِلَيْنَا فَقَعَدْنَا فَصَلَّيْنَا بِصَلَاتِهِ قُعُودًا فَلَمَّا سَلَّمَ قَالَ «إِنْ كِدْتُمْ آنِفًا لَتَفْعَلُونَ فِعْلَ فَارِسٍ وَالرُّومِ يَقُومُونَ عَلَى مُلُوكِهِمْ وَهُمْ قُعُودٌ فَلَا تَفْعَلُوا ائْتَمُّوا بِأَئِمَّتِكُمْ إِنْ صَلَّى قَائِمًا فَصَلَّوْا قِيَامًا وَإِنْ صَلَّى قَاعِدًا فَصَلَّوْا قُعُودًا»
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Chain of narrators
- Qutaybah b. Saʿīd
- al-Layth
- Abū al-Zubayr
- Jābir
✧ He said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was ill, so we prayed behind him while he was seated, and Abu Bakr was saying the takbir and making the people hear his takbir. He turned toward us and saw us standing, so he gestured to us, and we sat down and prayed following his prayer, seated. When he said the salam, he said: “You were about to do just now what the Persians and Romans do: they stand before their kings while they are seated. Do not do that. Follow your imams: if he prays standing, then pray standing; and if he prays seated, then pray seated.”
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