al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 729
✧ The reward of those who prostrate to Allah is a prostration
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أَخْبَرَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ حُرَيْثٍ أَبُو عَمَّارٍ الْمَرْوَزِيُّ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي الْأَوْزَاعِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ هِشَامٍ الْمُعَيْطِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي مَعْدَانُ بْنُ طَلْحَةَ الْيَعْمَرِيُّ قَالَ
لَقِيتُ ثَوْبَانَ مَوْلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فَقُلْتُ دُلَّنِي عَلَى عَمَلٍ يَنْفَعُنِي أَوْ يُدْخِلُنِي الْجَنَّةَ فَأُسْكِتَ عَنِّي ثَلَاثًا ثُمَّ الْتَفَتَ إِلَيَّ فَقَالَ عَلَيْكَ بِالسُّجُودِ فَإِنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ «مَا مِنْ عَبْدٍ يَسْجُدُ لِلَّهِ سَجْدَةً إِلَّا رَفَعَهُ اللهُ بِهَا دَرَجَةً وَحَطَّ عَنْهُ بِهَا خَطِيئَةً» قَالَ مَعْدَانُ ثُمَّ لَقِيتُ أَبَا الدَّرْدَاءِ فَسَأَلْتُهُ عَمَّا سَأَلْتُ عَنْهُ ثَوْبَانَ فَقَالَ عَلَيْكَ بِالسُّجُودِ فَإِنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ «مَا مِنْ عَبْدٍ يَسْجُدُ لِلَّهِ سَجْدَةً إِلَّا رَفَعَهُ اللهُ بِهَا دَرَجَةً وَحَطَّ عَنْهُ بِهَا خَطِيئَةً»
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Chain of narrators
- al-Ḥusayn b. Ḥurayth Abū ʿAmmār al-Marwazī
- al-Walīd b. Muslim
- al-Awzāʿī
- al-Walīd b. Hishām al-Muʿayṭī
- Maʿdān b. Ṭalḥah al-Yaʿmarī
✧ I met Thawban, the freed slave of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and said, “Guide me to a deed that will benefit me or admit me to Paradise.” He remained silent for a while, then turned to me and said, “You should prostrate, for I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, ‘There is no servant who prostrates to Allah once except that Allah raises him a degree by it and removes a sin from him by it.’” Ma‘dan said, “Then I met Abu al-Darda’ and asked him the same thing I had asked Thawban. He said, ‘You should prostrate, for I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, “There is no servant who prostrates to Allah once except that Allah raises him a degree by it and removes a sin from him by it.”’”
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