Sunan an-Nasa'i 909

Translation

"I heard Abu Hurairah say: 'The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "Whoever offers a prayer in which he does not recite Umm Al-Quran (Al Fatihah), it is deficient, it is deficient, it is deficient, incomplete." I (Abu As-Sa'ib) said: 'O Abu Hurairah, sometimes I am behind the Imam.' He poked me in the arm and said: 'Recite it to yourself, O Persian! For I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: "Allah says: "I have divided prayer between Myself and My slave into two halves, and My slave shall have what he has asked for.'" The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "Recite, for when the slave says: All the praises and thanks be to Allah, the Lord of all that exists, Allah says: 'My slave has praised Me.' And when he says: The Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, Allah says: 'My slave has extolled Me.' And when he says: The Only Owner (and the Only Ruling Judge) of the Day of Recompense (i.e. the Day of Resurrection), Allah says: 'My slave has glorified Me'. And when he says: You (alone) we worship, and You (alone) we ask for help (for each and everything), He says: 'This is between Me and My slave, and My slave shall have what he has asked for.' And when he says: 'Guide us to the straight way, the way of those on whom You have bestowed Your grace, not (the way) of those who earned Your anger, nor of those who went astray, He says: 'This is for My slave, and My slave shall have what he asked for.'"

Notes

• فَقُلْتُ يَا أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ إِنِّي أَحْيَانًا أَكُونُ وَرَاءَ الإِمَامِ فَغَمَزَ ذِرَاعِي وَقَالَ اقْرَأْ بِهَا يَا فَارِسِيُّ فِي نَفْسِكَ فَإِنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ يَقُولُ اللَّهُ ﷻ قَسَمْتُ الصَّلاَةَ بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَ عَبْدِي نِصْفَيْنِ فَنِصْفُهَا لِي وَنِصْفُهَا لِعَبْدِي وَلِعَبْدِي مَا سَأَلَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ اقْرَءُوا يَقُولُ الْعَبْدُ { الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ } يَقُولُ اللَّهُ ﷻ حَمِدَنِي عَبْدِي يَقُولُ الْعَبْدُ { الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ } يَقُولُ اللَّهُ ﷻ أَثْنَى عَلَىَّ عَبْدِي يَقُولُ الْعَبْدُ { مَالِكِ يَوْمِ الدِّينِ } يَقُولُ اللَّهُ ﷻ مَجَّدَنِي عَبْدِي يَقُولُ الْعَبْدُ { إِيَّاكَ نَعْبُدُ وَإِيَّاكَ نَسْتَعِينُ } فَهَذِهِ الآيَةُ بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَ عَبْدِي وَلِعَبْدِي مَا سَأَلَ يَقُولُ الْعَبْدُ { اهْدِنَا الصِّرَاطَ الْمُسْتَقِيمَ صِرَاطَ الَّذِينَ أَنْعَمْتَ عَلَيْهِمْ غَيْرِ الْمَغْضُوبِ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلاَ الضَّالِّينَ } فَهَؤُلاَءِ لِعَبْدِي وَلِعَبْدِي مَا سَأَلَ

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What scholars said about it

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• Dāraquṭnī

  ابن سمعان هو عبد الله بن زياد بن سمعان وهو متروك الحديث وروى هذا الحديث جماعة من الثقات عن العلاء بن عبد الرحمن منهم مالك بن أنس وابن جريج وروح بن القاسم وابن عيينة وابن عجلان والحسن بن الحر وأبو أويس وغيرهم على اختلاف منهم في الإسناد واتفاق منهم على المتن فلم يذكر لأحد منهم في حديثه بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم واتفاقهم على خلاف ما رواه ابن سمعان أولى بالصواب

  machine translationIbn Samʿān is ʿAbdullāh b. Ziyād b. Samʿān, and he is abandoned in ḥadīth (matrūk al-ḥadīth). A group of trustworthy narrators (thiqāt) narrated this ḥadīth from al-ʿAlāʾ b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, among them Mālik b. Anas, Ibn Jurayj, Rawḥ b. al-Qāsim, Ibn ʿUyaynah, Ibn ʿAjlān, al-Ḥasan b. al-Ḥurr, Abū Uways and others, differing in the chain of transmission but agreeing on the text. None of them mentioned "In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful" in his ḥadīth. Their agreement against what Ibn Samʿān narrated is more likely to be correct. Report a problem

  in سنن النسائي, p. 909
• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  الحديث صحيح للعلاء عن أبيه وعن أبي السائب جميعا عن أبي هريرة قد جمعهما عنه أبو أويس وغيره

  machine translationThe hadith is authentic (ṣaḥīḥ) through al-ʿAlāʾ, from his father and from Abū al-Sāʾib together, from Abū Hurayrah; Abū Uways and others have combined the two of them from him. Report a problem

  in سنن النسائي, p. 909
• Mubarakpūri

  أسانيد هذه الفتوى صحيحة

  machine translationThe chains of transmission (asānīd) of this legal opinion (fatwā) are authentic (ṣaḥīḥ). Report a problem

  in سنن النسائي, p. 909

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 756Sahih Muslim 394aSahih Muslim 394cSunan Abi Dawud 820Jami' at-Tirmidhi 238Jami' at-Tirmidhi 247

Narrators

1. 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
   سمعت
2. 2
   Abū al-Sāʾib mawlá Hishām b. Zuhrah

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 101 and 110 AH
   أَبَا السَّائِبِ مَوْلَى هِشَامِ بْنِ زُهْرَةَثقة
   سمع
3. 3
   al-ʿAlāʾ b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Ḥuraqī

   truthful (ṣadūq), who sometimes made mistakes (rubbamā wahima)d. 130-odd, or: 132 AH, or: 139 AH
   الْعَلَاءِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِصدوق ربما وهم
   عن
4. 4
   Mālik b. Anas

   The jurist (al-faqīh), the Imam of the Abode of Migration (Imām Dār al-Hijrah), the head of the proficient masters, and the foremost among the meticulous.d. 178 AH, or 179 AH
   مَالِكٍالفقيه ، إمام دار الهجرة ، رأس المتقنين ، وكبير المتثبتين
   عن
5. 5
   Qutaybah b. Saʿīd

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 240 AH, or: 241 AH
   قُتَيْبَةُثقة ثبت
   أخبرنا
6. 6
   al-Nasāʾī

   the preserver (al-Ḥāfiẓ)d. 302 AH, or 303 AH
   النَّسَائِيُّالحافظ

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

Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.