Sunan an-Nasa'i 1191
The prohibition of smoothing the pebbles while praying
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أَخْبَرَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ وَالْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ حُرَيْثٍ وَاللَّفْظُ لَهُ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي الأَحْوَصِ عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
إِذَا قَامَ أَحَدُكُمْ فِي الصَّلاَةِ فَلاَ يَمْسَحِ الْحَصَى فَإِنَّ الرَّحْمَةَ تُوَاجِهُهُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Qutaybah b. Saʿīd and -al-Ḥusayn b. Ḥurayth Wa-al-Lafẓ Lah
- Sufyān
- al-Zuhrī
- Abū al-Aḥwaṣ
- Abū Dhar
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
"The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: 'When any one of you stands in prayer, let him not smooth the pebbles, for he is facing Mercy.'"
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Good | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Abu Ghuddah | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Weakin ضعيف سنن النسائي, p. 1190 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- Dāraquṭnī
لا يعرف له اسم ولم يرو عنه إلا الزهري يعني أبا الأحوص
machine translationHis name is not known, and no one narrated from him except al-Zuhrī, meaning Abū al-Aḥwaṣ.
in سنن النسائي, p. 1191 - الزيلعى
صحح له الحاكم في المستدرك حديثا في النهي عن الالتفات في الصلاة يعني أبا الأحوص
machine translational-Ḥākim in al-Mustadrak graded as authentic (ṣaḥīḥ) a hadith narrated by him on the prohibition of turning around in prayer, meaning Abū al-Aḥwaṣ.
in سنن النسائي, p. 1191 - Dāraquṭnī
والصواب عن الزهري سمعت أبا الأحوص يحدث سعيد بن المسيب عن أبي ذر
machine translationThe correct version is from al-Zuhrī: "I heard Abū al-Aḥwaṣ narrating to Saʿīd b. al-Musayyab, from Abū Dharr."
in سنن النسائي, p. 1191
Same hadith, other wordings
- Jami at-Tirmidzi 379إِذَا قَامَ أَحَدُكُمْ إِلَى الصَّلاَةِ فَلاَ يَمْسَحِ الْحَصَى فَإِنَّ الرَّحْمَةَ تُوَاجِهُهُ
- Misykatul Mashabih 1001وَعَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِذَا قَامَ أَحَدُكُمْ إِلَى الصَّلَاةِ فَلَا يَمْسَحِ الْحَصَى فَإِنَّ الرَّحْمَةَ تُوَاجِهُهُ». رَوَاهُ أَحَمَدُ وَالتِّرْمِذِيُّ وَأَبُو دَاوُدَ وَالنَّس
Other narrations of this report
Sunan an-Nasa'i 1192Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 828Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 7936al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 1115al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 537
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 31 AH, or: 32 AHأَبُو ذَرٍّ الْغِفَارِيُّالصحابيعن
- acceptable (maqbūl)أَبِي الْأَحْوَصِمقبولعن
- The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AHالزُّهْرِيِّالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبتهعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an imam and a proof (ḥujjah), except that his memory changed towards the end of his life; he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), but only from trustworthy narrators.d. 197 AH or 198 AHسُفْيَانَثقة حافظ فقيه , إمام حجة إلا أنه تغير حفظه بأخرة , وكان ربما دلس لكن عن الثقاتعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 244 AHوَالْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ حُرَيْثٍثقةأخبرنا
- the preserver (al-Ḥāfiẓ)d. 302 AH, or 303 AHالنَّسَائِيُّالحافظ
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.
Commentaries
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Nasāʾī
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