Sunan an-Nasa'i 799
Where the Imam should stand when there are three, and the discrepancy regarding that
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أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ الْكُوفِيُّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ فُضَيْلٍ عَنْ هَارُونَ بْنِ عَنْتَرَةَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ الأَسْوَدِ عَنِ الأَسْوَدِ وَعَلْقَمَةَ قَالاَ
دَخَلْنَا عَلَى عَبْدِ اللَّهِ نِصْفَ النَّهَارِ فَقَالَ إِنَّهُ سَيَكُونُ أُمَرَاءُ يَشْتَغِلُونَ عَنْ وَقْتِ الصَّلاَةَ فَصَلُّوا لِوَقْتِهَا ثُمَّ قَامَ فَصَلَّى بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَهُ فَقَالَ هَكَذَا رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَعَلَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. ʿUbayd al-Kūfī
- Muḥammad b. Fuḍayl
- Hārūn b. ʿAntarah
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. al-Aswad
- al-Aswad and ʿAlqamah
"We entered upon 'Abdullah at midday and he said: 'There will be rulers who would be distracted from praying on time, so pray on time.' Then he stood up and prayed between him and I, and said: 'This is what I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ do."'
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Good | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Abu Ghuddah | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Soundin صحيح النسائي, p. 798 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
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- Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr
لا يصح رفعه والصحيح عندهم فيه التوقيف على ابن مسعود أنه كذلك صلى بعلقمة والأسود
in سنن النسائي, p. 799
Other narrations of this report
Sunan Ibn Majah 1255Sahih Ibn Hibban 1481Sahih Ibn Hibban 1874Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 1830al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 605al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 5399
Narrators
- One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمةقالا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), firm (thabt), jurist, devout worshipperd. 61 AH, or 62 AH, or 65 AH, or 72 AH, or 73 AH, also said: 63 AHوَعَلْقَمَةَثقة ثبت فقيه عابدعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 98 AH, or: 99 AHعَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ الْأَسْوَدِثقةعن
- no harm in him (lā baʾs bih)d. 142 AHهَارُونَ بْنِ عَنْتَرَةَلا بأس بهعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), knowledgeable (ʿārif), accused of Shīʿism (tashayyuʿ)d. 194 AH, or 195 AHمُحَمَّدِ بْنِ فُضَيْلٍصدوق عارف ، رمي بالتشيععن
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 245 AH, or 251 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ الْكُوفِيُّصدوقأخبرنا
- 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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