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Sahih al-Bukhari 751

To look hither and thither in As-Salat (the prayer)

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حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الأَحْوَصِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَشْعَثُ بْنُ سُلَيْمٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ مَسْرُوقٍ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ قَالَتْ

سَأَلْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ عَنْ الاِلْتِفَاتِ فِي الصَّلاَةِ فَقَالَ هُوَ اخْتِلاَسٌ يَخْتَلِسُهُ الشَّيْطَانُ مِنْ صَلاَةِ الْعَبْدِ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Musaddad
  2. Abū al-Aḥwaṣ
  3. Ashʿath b. Sulaym
  4. his father
  5. Masrūq
  6. ʿĀʾishah

I asked Messenger of Allah ﷺ about looking hither and thither in prayer. He replied, "It is a way of stealing by which Satan takes away (a portion) from the prayer of a person."

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Same hadith, other wordings

  • Jami at-Tirmidzi 590سَأَلْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ عَنْ الاِلْتِفَاتِ فِي الصَّلاَةِ قَالَ هُوَ اخْتِلاَسٌ يَخْتَلِسُهُ الشَّيْطَانُ مِنْ صَلاَةِ الرَّجُلِ
  • Misykatul Mashabih 982وَعَنْ عَائِشَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهَا قَالَتْ: سَأَلَتْ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ عَنِ الِالْتِفَاتِ فِي الصَّلَاةِ فَقَالَ: «هُوَ اختلاس يختلسه الشَّيْطَان من صَلَاة العَبْد»
  • Sunan an-Nasa'i 1196سَأَلْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ عَنْ الاِلْتِفَاتِ فِي الصَّلاَةِ فَقَالَ اخْتِلاَسٌ يَخْتَلِسُهُ الشَّيْطَانُ مِنَ الصَّلاَةِ

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 1051Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 558Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 4567Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 4581Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 4587Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 4720

Narrators

  1. ʿĀʾishah bt. Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq
    Mother of the Believers, the most knowledgeable woman in jurisprudence absolutely (afqah al-nisāʾ muṭlaqan)d. 57 AH, or 58 AH
    عَائِشَةُ بِنْتُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِأم المؤمنين ، أفقه النساء مطلقا
    عن
  2. Masrūq b. al-Ajdaʿ
    trustworthy (thiqah), jurist, devout worshipper, mukhaḍramd. Abū Nuʿaym said: 62 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd and others said: 63 AH
    مَسْرُوقٍثقة فقيه عابد ، مخضرم
    عن
  3. his father
    trustworthy (thiqah) by agreementd. 82 AH, or 83 AH, or 85 AH
    أَبِيهِثقة باتفاق
    عن
  4. Ashʿath b. Abī al-Shaʿthāʾ
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. 125, or 131 AH
    أَشْعَثُ بْنُ سُلَيْمٍثقة
    حدثنا
  5. Abū al-Aḥwaṣ
    trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), a hadith specialist (ṣāḥib ḥadīth)d. 179 AH
    أَبُو الْأَحْوَصِثقة , متقن , صاحب حديث
    حدثنا
  6. Musaddad
    trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 228 AH
    مُسَدَّدٌثقة حافظ
    حدثنا
  7. al-Bukhārī
    a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AH
    الْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث

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Commentaries

Sharḥ Riyad al-Salihin (Ibn al-ʿUthaymin)
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Rajab)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)

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