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Sunan an-Nasa'i 1196

Stern warning against turning around when praying

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أَخْبَرَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا زَائِدَةُ عَنْ أَشْعَثَ بْنِ أَبِي الشَّعْثَاءِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ مَسْرُوقٍ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ ؓ قَالَتْ

سَأَلْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ عَنْ الاِلْتِفَاتِ فِي الصَّلاَةِ فَقَالَ اخْتِلاَسٌ يَخْتَلِسُهُ الشَّيْطَانُ مِنَ الصَّلاَةِ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. ʿAmr b. ʿAlī
  2. ʿAbd al-Raḥman
  3. Zāʾidah
  4. Ashʿath b. Abū al-Shaʿthāʾ
  5. his father
  6. Masrūq
  7. ʿĀʾishah

"I asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ about looking here and there during prayer. He said: 'That is something that the Shaitan snatches from one's prayer.'"

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Zubair Ali ZaiSoundfawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Abu GhuddahSahihfawazahmed0
al-AlbaniSoundin صحيح النسائي, p. 1195fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked

What scholars said about it

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  • Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

    هذه الأحاديث كلها من أحاديث الشيوخ لا يحتج بمثلها

    machine translationThese hadiths are all among the hadiths of the shaykhs; the like of them is not used as evidence (ḥujjah).

    in سنن النسائي, p. 1196
  • Dāraquṭnī

    والصحيح عن أشعث بن أبي الشعثاء عن أبيه عن مسروق عن عائشة

    machine translationThe sound (ṣaḥīḥ) report is from Ashʿath b. Abī al-Shaʿthāʾ, from his father, from Masrūq, from ʿĀʾishah.

    in سنن النسائي, p. 1196

Same hadith, other wordings

  • Jami at-Tirmidzi 590سَأَلْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ عَنْ الاِلْتِفَاتِ فِي الصَّلاَةِ قَالَ هُوَ اخْتِلاَسٌ يَخْتَلِسُهُ الشَّيْطَانُ مِنْ صَلاَةِ الرَّجُلِ
  • Shahih al-Bukhari 751سَأَلْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ عَنْ الاِلْتِفَاتِ فِي الصَّلاَةِ فَقَالَ هُوَ اخْتِلاَسٌ يَخْتَلِسُهُ الشَّيْطَانُ مِنْ صَلاَةِ الْعَبْدِ
  • Misykatul Mashabih 982وَعَنْ عَائِشَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهَا قَالَتْ: سَأَلَتْ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ عَنِ الِالْتِفَاتِ فِي الصَّلَاةِ فَقَالَ: «هُوَ اختلاس يختلسه الشَّيْطَان من صَلَاة العَبْد»

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 1051Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 558Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 4567Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 4581Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 4587Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 4720

Narrators

  1. ʿĀʾishah bt. Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq
    Mother of the Believers, the most knowledgeable woman in jurisprudence absolutely (afqah al-nisāʾ muṭlaqan)d. 57 AH, or 58 AH
    عَائِشَةُ بِنْتُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِأم المؤمنين ، أفقه النساء مطلقا
    عن
  2. Masrūq b. al-Ajdaʿ
    trustworthy (thiqah), jurist, devout worshipper, mukhaḍramd. Abū Nuʿaym said: 62 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd and others said: 63 AH
    مَسْرُوقٍثقة فقيه عابد ، مخضرم
    عن
  3. his father
    trustworthy (thiqah) by agreementd. 82 AH, or 83 AH, or 85 AH
    أَبِيهِثقة باتفاق
    عن
  4. Ashʿath b. Abī al-Shaʿthāʾ
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. 125, or 131 AH
    أَشْعَثَ بْنِ أَبِي الشَّعْثَاءِثقة
    عن
  5. Zāʾidah
    Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a man of the Sunnah (ṣāḥib sunnah)d. 160 AH, or 161 AH, or 163 AH
    زَائِدَةُثقة ثبت ، صاحب سنة
    حدثنا
  6. ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Mahdī
    Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable of the narrators and of ḥadīthd. 198 AH
    عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِثقة ثبت حافظ ، عارف بالرجال والحديث
    حدثنا
  7. ʿAmr b. ʿAlī
    trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 249 AH
    عَمْرُو بْنُ عَلِيٍّثقة حافظ
    أخبرنا
  8. al-Nasāʾī
    the preserver (al-Ḥāfiẓ)d. 302 AH, or 303 AH
    النَّسَائِيُّالحافظ

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

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Commentaries

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