Sahih Muslim 673a
Who is more entitled to lead the prayer
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وَحَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ وَأَبُو سَعِيدٍ الأَشَجُّ كِلاَهُمَا عَنْ أَبِي خَالِدٍ قَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو خَالِدٍ الأَحْمَرُ عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ رَجَاءٍ عَنْ أَوْسِ بْنِ ضَمْعَجٍ عَنْ أَبِي مَسْعُودٍ الأَنْصَارِيِّ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
يَؤُمُّ الْقَوْمَ أَقْرَؤُهُمْ لِكِتَابِ اللَّهِ فَإِنْ كَانُوا فِي الْقِرَاءَةِ سَوَاءً فَأَعْلَمُهُمْ بِالسُّنَّةِ فَإِنْ كَانُوا فِي السُّنَّةِ سَوَاءً فَأَقْدَمُهُمْ هِجْرَةً فَإِنْ كَانُوا فِي الْهِجْرَةِ سَوَاءً فَأَقْدَمُهُمْ سِلْمًا وَلاَ يَؤُمَّنَّ الرَّجُلُ الرَّجُلَ فِي سُلْطَانِهِ وَلاَ يَقْعُدْ فِي بَيْتِهِ عَلَى تَكْرِمَتِهِ إِلاَّ بِإِذْنِهِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah and ʾAbū Saʿīd al-Ashaj
- Abū Khālid
- Abū Bakr
- Abū Khālid al-Aḥmar
- al-Aʿmash
- Ismāʿīl b. Rajāʾ
- Aws b. Ḍamʿaj
- Abū Masʿūd al-Anṣārī
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
The one who is most versed in Allah's Book should act as Imam for the people, but If they are equally versed in reciting it, then the one who has most knowledge regarding Sunnah if they are equal regarding the Sunnah, then the earliest one to emigrate; it they emigrated at the same time, then the earliest one to embrace Islam. No man must lead another in prayer where (the latter) has authority, or sit in his place of honour in his house, without his permission. Ashajj in his narration used the word," age" in place of" Islam".
Notes
قَالَ الأَشَجُّ فِي رِوَايَتِهِ مَكَانَ سِلْمًا سِنًّا
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Same hadith, other wordings
- Jami at-Tirmidzi 235يَؤُمُّ الْقَوْمَ أَقْرَؤُهُمْ لِكِتَابِ اللَّهِ فَإِنْ كَانُوا فِي الْقِرَاءَةِ سَوَاءً فَأَعْلَمُهُمْ بِالسُّنَّةِ فَإِنْ كَانُوا فِي السُّنَّةِ سَوَاءً فَأَقْدَمُهُمْ هِجْرَةً فَإِنْ كَانُوا فِي الْهِجْرَةِ سَوَاءً فَأَكْبَرُهُمْ سِنًّا
- Misykatul Mashabih 1117عَن أَبِي مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «يَؤُمُّ الْقَوْمَ أَقْرَؤُهُمْ لِكِتَابِ اللَّهِ فَإِنْ كَانُوا فِي الْقِرَاءَةِ سَوَاءً فَأَعْلَمُهُمْ بِالسُّنَّةِ فَإِنْ كَانُوا فِي السُّنَّةِ سَوَاءً
Other narrations of this report
Sunan an-Nasa'i 636al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 15154al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 6371al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 5217Sunan al-Daraqutni 1705al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 866
Narrators
- Eminent Companion (ṣaḥābī jalīl)d. 40 AH, or before it or after it, or: 41 AH, or: 42 AHأَبُو مَسْعُودٍ الْبَدْرِيُّصحابي جليلعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 73 AH, or 74 AHأَوْسِ بْنِ ضَمْعَجٍثقةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah); al-Azdī spoke against him without proofd. between 111 and 120 AHإِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ رَجَاءٍثقة ، تكلم فيه الأزدي بلا حجةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AHالْأَعْمَشِثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلسعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), makes mistakes (yukhṭiʾ)d. 189 AH, or 190 AHأَبُو خَالِدٍ الْأَحْمَرُصدوق يخطئعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 256 AH, or 257 AH, in the book "Zahrat al-Mutaʿallimīn": died (223 AH). Mughulṭāy said: "I have not seen it from anyone else, so it should be examined".وَأَبُو سَعِيدٍ الْأَشَجُّثقةحدثنا
- 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
Sharḥ Riyad al-Salihin (Ibn al-ʿUthaymin)
Dalīl al-Fāliḥīn (Ibn ʿAllān)
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
al-Minhāj (Nawawī)
al-Mufham (Abū al-ʿAbbās)
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