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Sunan an-Nasa'i 1272

The prohibition of pointing with two fingers and with which finger one should point

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أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا صَفْوَانُ بْنُ عِيسَى قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ عَجْلاَنَ عَنِ الْقَعْقَاعِ عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

أَنَّ رَجُلاً كَانَ يَدْعُو بِأُصْبُعَيْهِ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَحِّدْ أَحِّدْ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Muḥammad b. Bashhār
  2. Ṣafwān b. ʿĪsá
  3. Ibn ʿAjlān
  4. al-Qaʿqāʿ
  5. Abū Ṣāliḥ
  6. Abū Hurayrah

A man used to supplicate with two fingers and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "Make it one, make it one."

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Zubair Ali ZaiWeakfawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Abu GhuddahSahihfawazahmed0
al-AlbaniSoundin صحيح سنن النسائي, p. 1271fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked

What scholars said about it

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Same hadith, other wordings

  • Misykatul Mashabih 913وَعَن أبي هُرَيْرَة قَالَ: إِنَّ رَجُلًا كَانَ يَدْعُو بِأُصْبُعَيْهِ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «أَحِّدْ أَحِّدْ». رَوَاهُ التِّرْمِذِيُّ وَالنَّسَائِيُّ وَالْبَيْهَقِيُّ فِي الدَّعَوَاتِ الْكَبِير
  • Jami at-Tirmidzi 3557أَنَّ رَجُلاً كَانَ يَدْعُو بِأُصْبُعَيْهِ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَحِّدْ أَحِّدْ

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Abi Dawud 1499Musnad Ahmad 12901al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 3554al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 1197Musnad Abi Ya'la 792

Narrators

  1. Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī
    The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
    أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
    عن
  2. Dhakwān al-Sammān
    trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 101 AH
    أَبِي صَالِحٍثقة ثبت
    عن
  3. al-Qaʿqāʿ b. Ḥakīm
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 101 and 110 AH
    الْقَعْقَاعِثقة
    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
    ابْنُ عَجْلَانَصدوق إلا أنه اختلطت عليه أحاديث أبي هريرة
    حدثنا
  5. Ṣafwān b. ʿĪsā
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. Ibn Ḥibbān said: 198 AH or the beginning of 199 AH, Ibn Saʿd said: 200 AH. Also said: 208 AH, and al-Dhahabī considered it an error
    صَفْوَانُ بْنُ عِيسَىثقة
    حدثنا
  6. Muḥammad b. Bashshār
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. 252 AH
    مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍثقة
    أخبرنا
  7. al-Nasāʾī
    the preserver (al-Ḥāfiẓ)d. 302 AH, or 303 AH
    النَّسَائِيُّالحافظ

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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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Mishkat al-Masabih 913b

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