al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 945
✧ The individual behind the row
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أَخْبَرَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا نُوحٌ يَعْنِي ابْنَ قَيْسٍ عَنِ ابْنِ مَالِكٍ عَنْ أَبِي الْجَوْزَاءِ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ
كَانَتِ امْرَأَةٌ تُصَلِّي خَلْفَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ حَسْنَاءُ مِنْ أَحْسَنِ النَّاسِ قَالَ كَانَ بَعْضُ الْقَوْمِ يَتَقَدَّمُ فِي الصَّفِّ الْأَوَّلِ لِئَلَّا يَرَاهَا وَيَسْتَأْخِرُ بَعْضُهُمْ حَتَّى يَكُونَ فِي الصَّفِّ الْمُؤَخَّرِ فَإِذَا رَكَعَ يَعْنِي يَنْظُرُ مِنْ تَحْتِ إِبْطِهِ فَأَنْزَلَ اللهُ {وَلَقَدْ عَلِمْنَا الْمُسْتَقْدِمِينَ مِنْكُمْ وَلَقَدْ عَلِمْنَا الْمُسْتَأْخِرِينَ} [الحجر 24]
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Qutaybah b. Saʿīd
- Nūḥ / Ibn Qays
- Ibn Mālik
- Abū al-Jawzāʾ
- Ibn ʿAbbās
"There was a woman who used to pray behind the Messenger of Allah ﷺ who was beautiful, one of the most beautiful of people. Some of the people used to go to the front row to avoid seeing her, and some used to go to the back row so that when they bowed they could see her from beneath their armpits. Then Allah revealed the words: 'To Us are known those of you who hasten forward and those who lag behind." (Using translation from Nasāʾī 870)
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