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Sunan an-Nasa'i 1238

The praying person completing (the prayer) upon what he remembers when he doubts

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أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ حَبِيبِ بْنِ عَرَبِيٍّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا خَالِدٌ عَنِ ابْنِ عَجْلاَنَ عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ أَسْلَمَ عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ يَسَارٍ عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ

إِذَا شَكَّ أَحَدُكُمْ فِي صَلاَتِهِ فَلْيُلْغِ الشَّكَّ وَلْيَبْنِ عَلَى الْيَقِينِ فَإِذَا اسْتَيْقَنَ بِالتَّمَامِ فَلْيَسْجُدْ سَجْدَتَيْنِ وَهُوَ قَاعِدٌ فَإِنْ كَانَ صَلَّى خَمْسًا شَفَعَتَا لَهُ صَلاَتَهُ وَإِنْ صَلَّى أَرْبَعًا كَانَتَا تَرْغِيمًا لِلشَّيْطَانِ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Yaḥyá b. Ḥabīb b. ʿArabī
  2. Khālid
  3. Ibn ʿAjlān
  4. Zayd b. Aslam
  5. ʿAṭāʾ b. Yasār
  6. Abū Saʿīd
  7. al-Nabī ﷺ

The Prophet ﷺ said: "If one of you is not sure about his prayer, let him forget about what he is unsure of and complete his prayer on the basis of what he is sure of. When he is sure that he has completed it, let him prostrate twice while he is sitting. Then if he has prayed five (rak'ahs), they (the two prostrations) will make his prayer even-numbered, and if he had prayed four, they will annoy and humiliate the shaitan."

Grades by grader

Zubair Ali ZaiSoundfawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Abu GhuddahHasan Sahihfawazahmed0
al-AlbaniGood-Soundin صحيح سنن النسائي, p. 1237fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked

What scholars said about it

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  • Qurṭubī

    حديث أبي سعيد أرسله مالك عن عطاء وأسنده غيره فكان هذا اضطرابا فيه والتسليم عن ذلك أرجح

    machine translationThe hadith of Abū Saʿīd: Mālik transmitted it as a mursal report from ʿAṭāʾ, while others transmitted it with a connected chain (musnad). This is therefore an inconsistency (iḍṭirāb) in it, and yielding to that is more preferable.

    in سنن النسائي, p. 1238

Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 11689Musnad Ahmad 11794Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 4436Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 4438Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 4446Sunan al-Daraqutni 1397

Narrators

  1. Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī
    He and his father were Companions (ṣuḥbah).d. 63 AH, or 64 AH, or 65 AH, or 74 AH
    أَبُو سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيُّله ولأبيه صحبة
    عن
  2. ʿAṭāʾ b. Yasār al-Hilālī
    Trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil), a man of admonitions and worship.d. 94 AH, or 97 AH, or 103 AH, or 104 AH
    عَطَاءِ بْنِ يَسَارٍثقة فاضل ، صاحب مواعظ وعبادة
    عن
  3. Zayd b. Aslam
    trustworthy (thiqah), a scholar, and he would narrate with omission of the Companion link (yursil)d. 135 AH or 136 AH
    زَيْدِ بْنِ أَسْلَمَثقة عالم ، وكان يرسل
    عن
  4. Ibn ʿAjlān
    truthful (ṣadūq), except that the hadiths of Abū Hurayrah became confused for him (ikhtalaṭat ʿalayhi)d. 148 AH, or 149 AH, al-Dhahabī said in al-Kāshif 138 AH
    ابْنِ عَجْلَانَصدوق إلا أنه اختلطت عليه أحاديث أبي هريرة
    عن
  5. Khālid b. al-Ḥārith
    trustworthy (thiqah), firm (thabt).d. 186 AH.
    خَالِدٌثقة ثبت.
    حدثنا
  6. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabīb b. ʿArabī
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. 248 AH, also said: after 250 AH
    يَحْيَى بْنُ حَبِيبِ بْنِ عَرَبِيٍّثقة
    أخبرنا
  7. 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

الاعتبار في الناسخ والمنسوخ
Ḥāshiyat al-Suyūṭī on Tirmidhī
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Nasāʾī

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