Sunan an-Nasa'i 1193
The prohibition of lifting one's gaze to the sky when praying
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أَخْبَرَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ وَشُعَيْبُ بْنُ يُوسُفَ عَنْ يَحْيَى وَهُوَ ابْنُ سَعِيدٍ الْقَطَّانُ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عَرُوبَةَ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ
مَا بَالُ أَقْوَامٍ يَرْفَعُونَ أَبْصَارَهُمْ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ فِي صَلاَتِهِمْ فَاشْتَدَّ قَوْلُهُ فِي ذَلِكَ حَتَّى قَالَ لَيَنْتَهُنَّ عَنْ ذَلِكَ أَوْ لَتُخْطَفَنَّ أَبْصَارُهُمْ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿUbaydullāh b. Saʿīd and Shuʿayb b. Yūsuf
- Yaḥyá Wahū Ibn Saʿīd al-Qaṭṭān
- Ibn Abū ʿArūbah
- Qatādah
- Anas b. Mālik
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "What is the matter with people who lift their gaze to the sky when praying?" And he spoke sternly concerning that until he said: "They must stop that or they will certainly lose their eyesight."
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Sound | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Abu Ghuddah | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Soundin صحيح النسائي, p. 1192 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
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- أبو زرعة الرازي
ابن أبي عروبة أحفظ وقتادة عن أنس عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم أصح أصح من أبان العطار عن قتادة أنه بلغه
machine translationIbn Abī ʿArūbah is a better memorizer (aḥfaẓ), and the report of Qatādah from Anas from the Prophet ﷺ is more authentic (aṣaḥḥ) than the report of Abān al-ʿAṭṭār from Qatādah, that it had reached him.
in سنن النسائي, p. 1193 - Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
صح النهي عن رفع البصر إلى السماء في حالة الصلاة
machine translationThe prohibition against raising the gaze toward the sky during prayer is authentic (ṣaḥīḥ).
in سنن النسائي, p. 1193
Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 21127Musnad Ahmad 21167Sahih Ibn Hibban 2284Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 549Musnad Abi Ya'la 2966Musnad Abi Ya'la 3193
Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AHأَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهورعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 117 AH, or: 118 AHقَتَادَةَثقة ثبتعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of several works; however, he committed concealment (tadlīs) very often and his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa), and he was among the most reliable of people in narrating from Qatādahd. 150 AH or 155 AH or 156 AH or 157 AHابْنِ أَبِي عَرُوبَةَثقة حافظ ، له تصانيف ؛ لكنه كثير التدليس واختلط ، وكان من أثبت الناس في قتادةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam and exemplar (qudwah)d. 198 AHيَحْيَى ، وَهُوَ ابْنُ سَعِيدٍ الْقَطَّانُثقة متقن حافظ ، إمام قدوةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a hadith specialist (ṣāḥib ḥadīth)d. between 231 and 240 AHوَشُعَيْبُ بْنُ يُوسُفَثقة , صاحب حديثأخبرنا
- 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
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Nasāʾī
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