Jami' at-Tirmidhi 198

Translation

"Messenger of Allah said [to me]: 'Do not say the Tathwib for any prayer except the Fajr prayer.'" [He said:] There is something on this topic from Abu Mahdhurah. Abu ʿEisa said: We do not know of the Hadith of Bilal except as a narration of Abu Isra'il Al-Mula'i. Abu Isra'il did not hear this Hadith from Al-Hakam bin ʿUtaibah. He said: He only reported it from Al-Hasan bin ʿUmarah, from Al-Hakam bin ʿUtaibah. Abu Isra'il's name is [Ismaʿil bin Abi Ishaq, and he is not strong according to the people of Hadith. The people of knowledge have differed over the interpretation of At-Tathwib. Some of them say that At-Tathwib is when one says "As-Salatu Khairummin An-Nawm, (prayer is better than sleep)" for the Adhan of Fajr. This is the saying of Ibn Al-Mubarak and Ahmad. Ishaq said something different about At-Tathwib, he said: "[The disliked Tathwib] is something that the people started after the Prophet; when the Mu'adh-dhin calls the Adhan and the people are slow in coming, so between the Adhan and the Iqamah he says: 'Qad Qamatis-Salat, Hayya ʿAlasalat, Hayya ʿAlalFalah. (Prayer is ready, come to prayer, come to success.)" [He said:] This Tathwib, which Ishaq mentioned, is the one that the people of knowledge dislike, which they innovated after the Prophet. But Ibn Al-Mubarak and Ahmad explained that At-Tathwib is when the Mu'adh-dhin says: "As-Salatu Khairum minan-Nawm, (prayer is better than sleep)" for the Adhan of Fajr. And this is the correct saying, and it is called At-Tathawwub as well, and this is the one chosen by the people of knowledge, and it is their opinion. It has been reported from ʿAbdullah bin ʿUmar that he would say: "As-Salatu Khairum-minan-Nawm, (prayer is better than sleep)" for Fajr. It has been reported from Mujahid that he said: "I entered a Masjid with ʿAbdullah bin ʿUmar in which the Adhan was called, and we wanted to pray in it. Then the Mu'adh-dhin said the Tathwib. So ʿAbdullah bin ʿUmar left the Masjid and said: 'Let us leave the place of this innovator' And he did not pray in it." [He said:] ʿAbdullah only disliked the Tathwib that the people invented later on.

Notes

• قَالَ وَفِي الْبَابِ عَنْ أَبِي مَحْذُورَةَ قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى حَدِيثُ بِلاَلٍ لاَ نَعْرِفُهُ إِلاَّ مِنْ حَدِيثِ أَبِي إِسْرَائِيلَ الْمُلاَئِيِّ وَأَبُو إِسْرَائِيلَ لَمْ يَسْمَعْ هَذَا الْحَدِيثَ مِنَ الْحَكَمِ بْنِ عُتَيْبَةَ قَالَ إِنَّمَا رَوَاهُ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عُمَارَةَ عَنِ الْحَكَمِ بْنِ عُتَيْبَةَ وَأَبُو إِسْرَائِيلَ اسْمُهُ إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ وَلَيْسَ هُوَ بِذَاكَ الْقَوِيِّ عِنْدَ أَهْلِ الْحَدِيثِ وَقَدِ اخْتَلَفَ أَهْلُ الْعِلْمِ فِي تَفْسِيرِ التَّثْوِيبِ فَقَالَ بَعْضُهُمُ التَّثْوِيبُ أَنْ يَقُولَ فِي أَذَانِ الْفَجْرِ الصَّلاَةُ خَيْرٌ مِنَ النَّوْمِ وَهُوَ قَوْلُ ابْنِ الْمُبَارَكِ وَأَحْمَدَ وَقَالَ إِسْحَاقُ فِي التَّثْوِيبِ غَيْرَ هَذَا قَالَ التَّثْوِيبُ الْمَكْرُوهُ هُوَ شَيْءٌ أَحْدَثَهُ النَّاسُ بَعْدَ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ إِذَا أَذَّنَ الْمُؤَذِّنُ فَاسْتَبْطَأَ الْقَوْمَ قَالَ بَيْنَ الأَذَانِ وَالإِقَامَةِ قَدْ قَامَتِ الصَّلاَةُ حَىَّ عَلَى الصَّلاَةِ حَىَّ عَلَى الْفَلاَحِ قَالَ وَهَذَا الَّذِي قَالَ إِسْحَاقُ هُوَ التَّثْوِيبُ الَّذِي قَدْ كَرِهَهُ أَهْلُ الْعِلْمِ وَالَّذِي أَحْدَثُوهُ بَعْدَ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ وَالَّذِي فَسَّرَ ابْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ وَأَحْمَدُ أَنَّ التَّثْوِيبَ أَنْ يَقُولَ الْمُؤَذِّنُ فِي أَذَانِ الْفَجْرِ الصَّلاَةُ خَيْرٌ مِنَ النَّوْمِ وَهُوَ قَوْلٌ صَحِيحٌ وَيُقَالُ لَهُ التَّثْوِيبُ أَيْضًا وَهُوَ الَّذِي اخْتَارَهُ أَهْلُ الْعِلْمِ وَرَأَوْهُ وَرُوِيَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ أَنَّهُ كَانَ يَقُولُ فِي صَلاَةِ الْفَجْرِ الصَّلاَةُ خَيْرٌ مِنَ النَّوْمِ وَرُوِيَ عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ قَالَ دَخَلْتُ مَعَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ مَسْجِدًا وَقَدْ أُذِّنَ فِيهِ وَنَحْنُ نُرِيدُ أَنْ نُصَلِّيَ فِيهِ فَثَوَّبَ الْمُؤَذِّنُ فَخَرَجَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ مِنَ الْمَسْجِدِ وَقَالَ اخْرُجْ بِنَا مِنْ عِنْدِ هَذَا الْمُبْتَدِعِ وَلَمْ يُصَلِّ فِيهِ قَالَ وَإِنَّمَا كَرِهَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ التَّثْوِيبَ الَّذِي أَحْدَثَهُ النَّاسُ بَعْدُ

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What scholars said about it

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• al-Tirmidhi

  هذا حديث لا نعرفه إلا من حديث أبي إسرائيل الملائي

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 202
• al-Tirmidhi

  وهي الانقطاع فإن عبد الرحمن بن أبي ليلى لم يدرك بلالا كما نص عليه غير واحد من الحفاظ قال الشافعي لا نعلم عبد الرحمن بن أبي ليلى رأى بلالا قط عبد الرحمن بالكوفة وبلال بالشام

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 202
• Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

  وفيه أبو إسماعيل الملائي وهو ضعيف مع انقطاعه بين عبد الرحمن وبلال

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 202
• Ibn al-Sakan

  وقال ابن السكن لا يصح إسناده

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 202

Same hadith, other wordings

• Misykatul Mashabih 646وَعَنْ بِلَالٍ قَالَ: قَالَ لِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «لَا تُثَوِّبَنَّ فِي شَيْءٍ مِنَ الصَّلَوَاتِ إِلَّا فِي صَلَاةِ الْفَجْرِ». رَوَاهُ التِّرْمِذِيُّ وَابْنُ مَاجَهْ وَقَالَ التِّرْمِذِيُّ: أَبُو إِسْرَائِي

Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 24487al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 1094Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 1841al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 2021Sunan al-Daraqutni 947Musnad al-Bazzar 1387

Narrators

1. 1
   Bilāl b. Rabāḥ sābiq al-Ḥabashah

   One of the earliest and foremost Muslims (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn); he witnessed Badr and the other battlesd. ʿAmr b. ʿAlī and others said: the year 20 AH, Yaḥyā b. Bukayr said: the year 17 AH or 18 AH
   بِلَالُ بْنُ رَبَاحٍ سَابِقُ الْحَبَشَةِمن السابقين الأولين ، شهد بدرا والمشاهد
   عن
2. 2
   ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Abī Laylá

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 82 AH, or 83 AH, also said: 71 AH, which is a mistake
   عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي لَيْلَىثقة
   عن
3. 3
   al-Ḥakam b. ʿUtaybah al-Kindī

   trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh), except that he sometimes practised concealment (tadlīs)d. 113 AH, or 114 AH, or 115; also said 110 AH
   الْحَكَمِثقة ثبت فقيه ، إلا أنه ربما دلس
   عن
4. 4
   Abū Isrāʾīl

   truthful (ṣadūq), poor memory (sayyiʾ al-ḥifẓ), attributed to extremism in Shīʿismd. 169 AH
   أَبُو إِسْرَائِيلَصدوق سيء الحفظ ، نسب إلى الغلو في التشيع
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Abū Aḥmad

   trustworthy and reliable (thiqah thabt), except that he may err in the narrations of al-Thawrīd. 203 AH
   أَبُو أَحْمَدَ الزُّبَيْرِيُّثقة ثبت إلا أنه قد يخطئ في حديث الثوري
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Aḥmad b. Manīʿ

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 244 AH, or 243 AH
   أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنِيعٍثقة حافظ
   حدثنا
7. 7
   al-Tirmidhī

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 279 AH, in Ikmāl al-Tahdhīb: 275 AH
   التِّرْمِذِيُّثقة حافظ

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

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Mishkat al-Masabih 646