al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 3044

Translation

✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ led us in one of the two afternoon prayers—Zuhr or 'Asr—and said the salam after two rak'ahs. The swift among the people left, saying: 'The prayer has been shortened, the prayer has been shortened.' Among the people were Abu Bakr and 'Umar, but they were hesitant to speak to him. He went to a piece of wood in the mosque against which he used to place his hand. A man called Dhu al-Yadayn—long of hands—and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to call him 'Dhu al-Yadayn,' said to him: 'O Messenger of Allah, has the prayer been shortened or did you forget?' He said: 'I did not forget, nor has it been shortened.' Then he asked the people, and they said: 'Dhu al-Yadayn has spoken the truth.' So the Messenger of Allah ﷺ returned and prayed two rak'ahs like his bowing or longer, then prostrated twice.

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• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  فإن قال قائل إن حديث ذي اليدين مضطرب لأن ابن عمر وأبا هريرة يقولان سلم من اثنتين وعمران بن حصين يقول من ثلاث ركعات ومعاوية بن حديج يقول إن المتكلم طلحة بن عبيد الله قيل له ليس اختلافهم في موضع السلام من الصلاة عند أحد من أهل العلم بخلاف يقدح في حديثهم لأن المعنى المراد من الحديث هو البناء بعد الكلام ولا فرق عند أهل العلم بين المسلم من ثلاث أو من اثنتين لأن كل واحد منهما لم يكمل صلاته وأما ما ذكر في حديث معاوية بن حديج من ذكر طلحة بن عبيد الله فممكن أن يكون أيضا طلحة كلمه وغيره وليس في أن يكلمه طلحة وغيره ما يدفع أن ذا اليدين كلمه أيضا فأدى كل ما سمع على حسب ما سمع

  machine translationIf someone says: the hadith of Dhū l-Yadayn is inconsistent (muḍṭarib), because Ibn ʿUmar and Abū Hurayrah say that he gave the salām after two units, while ʿImrān b. Ḥuṣayn says after three units, and Muʿāwiyah b. Ḥudayj says that the one who spoke was Ṭalḥah b. ʿUbaydillāh, it is said to him: their disagreement about the point of the prayer at which the salām was given is not, according to any of the people of knowledge, a disagreement that undermines their hadith, because the meaning intended by the hadith is building on the prayer after speaking. There is no difference among the people of knowledge between one who gave the salām after three or after two, because neither of them had completed his prayer. As for what is mentioned in the hadith of Muʿāwiyah b. Ḥudayj about Ṭalḥah b. ʿUbaydillāh, it is possible that Ṭalḥah and others also spoke to him, and Ṭalḥah and others speaking to him does not rule out that Dhū l-Yadayn also spoke to him. So each one reported what he heard according to what he heard. Report a problem

  in المعجم الأوسط, p. 3044

Other narrations of this report

Sunan an-Nasa'i 1331

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
   عن
2. 2
   Muḥammad b. Sīrīn

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), devout (ʿābid), of great standing; he did not permit narration by meaning.d. 110 AH
   مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سِيرِينَثقة ثبت عابد كبير القدر ، كان لا يرى الرواية بالمعنى
   عن
3. 3
   Saʿīd b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān

   d. between 151 and 160 AH
   سَعِيدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ
   حدثني
4. 4
   Abū Dāwūd

   trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), who erred in some hadithsd. 203 AH, or 204 AH
   أَبُو دَاوُدَ الطَّيَالِسِيُّثقة حافظ , غلط في أحاديث
   نا
5. 5
   ʿAbdullāh b. ʿImrān

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. between 231 and 240 AH, or 241 AH 250 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عِمْرَانَ الْأَصْبَهَانِيُّصدوق
   نا
6. 6
   Abān b. Makhlad al-Aṣbahānī

   d. 299 AH, also said 300 AH
   أَبَانُ بْنُ مَخْلَدٍ الْأَصْبَهَانِيُّ
   حدثنا
7. 7
   al-Ṭabarānī

   d. 360 AH
   الطبراني

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