Sahih Muslim 714a
It is recommended to greet the masjid by praying two rakʿah, and it is disliked to sit before praying these two rakʿah, and this is prescribed at all times
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حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْلَمَةَ بْنِ قَعْنَبٍ وَقُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا مَالِكٌ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ يَحْيَى قَالَ قَرَأْتُ عَلَى مَالِكٍ عَنْ عَامِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ سُلَيْمٍ الزُّرَقِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي قَتَادَةَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ
إِذَا دَخَلَ أَحَدُكُمُ الْمَسْجِدَ فَلْيَرْكَعْ رَكْعَتَيْنِ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَجْلِسَ
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Chain of narrators
- [Chain 1] ʿAbdullāh b. Maslamah b. Qaʿnab and Qutaybah b. Saʿīd
- Mālik [Chain 2] Yaḥyá b. Yaḥyá
- Mālik
- ʿĀmir b. ʿAbdullāh b. al-Zubayr
- ʿAmr b. Sulaym al-Zuraqī
- Abū Qatādah
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
When any one of you enters the mosque, he should observe two rak'ahs (of Nafl prayer) before sitting.
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Same hadith, other wordings
- Jami at-Tirmidzi 316إِذَا جَاءَ أَحَدُكُمُ الْمَسْجِدَ فَلْيَرْكَعْ رَكْعَتَيْنِ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَجْلِسَ
- Muwaththa' Malik 9-65إِذَا دَخَلَ أَحَدُكُمُ الْمَسْجِدَ فَلْيَرْكَعْ رَكْعَتَيْنِ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَجْلِسَ
- Shahih al-Bukhari 444إِذَا دَخَلَ أَحَدُكُمُ الْمَسْجِدَ فَلْيَرْكَعْ رَكْعَتَيْنِ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَجْلِسَ
- Misykatul Mashabih 704وَعَنْ أَبِي قَتَادَةَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: «إِذَا دَخَلَ أَحَدُكُمُ الْمَسْجِدَ فَلْيَرْكَعْ رَكْعَتَيْنِ قَبْلَ أَنْ يجلس»
- Sunan an-Nasa'i 730إِذَا دَخَلَ أَحَدُكُمُ الْمَسْجِدَ فَلْيَرْكَعْ رَكْعَتَيْنِ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَجْلِسَ
Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 22529Sahih Ibn Hibban 2495Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 1502al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 4331al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 9183Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 1690
Narrators
- He took part in Uḥud and the battles after itd. al-Ḥasan b. ʿUthmān said: 40 AH, al-Wāqidī said: 54 AH, the people of Kufa reported that he died: 38 AH, al-Bukhārī mentioned him in al-Awsaṭ, among those who died between 50 AH and 60 AHأَبُو قَتَادَةَ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ فَارِسُ رَسُولِ اللهِشهد أحدا وما بعدهاعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), among the senior Successors; it is said he saw the Prophet ﷺ (ruʾyah)d. 104 AHعَمْرِو بْنِ سُلَيْمٍ الزُّرَقِيِّثقة من كبار التابعين ويقال : له رؤيةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 121 AH, or: 122 AH, or: 124 AH, or: 125 AHعَامِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الزُّبَيْرِثقة عابدعن
- 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 AHمَالِكٍالفقيه ، إمام دار الهجرة ، رأس المتقنين ، وكبير المتثبتينحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 240 AH, or: 241 AH، وَقُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍثقة ثبتحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam, an author of compilations, knowledgeable in jurisprudence (fiqh)d. Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb said: 261 AH, Makkī b. ʿAbdān said: 259 AHمُسْلِمٌثقة حافظ ، إمام ، مصنف ، عالم بالفقه
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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)
al-Minhāj (Nawawī)
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