al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 8612

Translation

✧ The Imam is only to be followed. So when he says the takbir, say the takbir; when he bows, bow; and when he says, 'Sami'a Allahu liman hamidah,' say, 'Al-hamdu lillah.' And when he prays sitting, then pray sitting, all of you.

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What scholars said about it

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• Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

  صححه

  machine translationHe declared it sound (ṣaḥḥaḥahu). Report a problem

  in المعجم الأوسط, p. 8612
• Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī

  رجاله موثقون

  machine translationIts narrators are considered trustworthy (muwathhaqūn). Report a problem

  in المعجم الأوسط, p. 8612

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
   ʿAṭāʾ b. Abī Rabāḥ

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), virtuous, but he often narrated with omission of the Companion (irsāl); it is said that he changed (taghayyara) at the end of his life, though this was not frequent in himd. 112 AH, or 114 AH, or 115 AH, or 116 AH, or 117 AH
   عَطَاءٍثقة فقيه ، فاضل لكنه كثير الإرسال ، وقيل : إنه تغير بآخره ، ولم يكثر ذلك منه
   عن
3. 3
   ʿAbd al-Malik

   Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 145 AH or 147 AH
   عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ أَبِي سُلَيْمَانَصدوق له أوهام
   عن
4. 4
   ʿAmr b. Hāshim Abū Mālik al-Janbī

   weak in ḥadīth (layyin al-ḥadīth)d. between 191 and 200 AH
   عَمْرُو بْنُ هَاشِمٍ الْجَنْبِيُّلين الحديث
   نا
5. 5
   Al-Ḥasan b. Ḥammād b. Kusayb

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. 241 AH
   الْحَسَنُ بْنُ حَمَّادٍ سَجَّادَةُصدوق
   نا
6. 6
   Muntaṣir b. Muḥammad
   مُنْتَصِرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ
   حدثنا
7. 7
   al-Ṭabarānī

   d. 360 AH
   الطبراني

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