Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2958

Translation

"The Messenger of Allah ﷺ would perform voluntary Salat upon his mount facing whichever direction he was headed, while he was coming from Makkah to Al-Madinah." Then Ibn 'Umar recited: To Allah belong both the east and the west. (2:115)" And Ibn 'Umar said: "It was about this that the Ayah was revealed." [Abu Eisa said:] This Hadith is Hasan Sahih. It has been reported from Qatadah that he said about this Ayah: To Allah belong both the east and the west, so wherever you turn, there is the Face of Allah. [Qatadah said:] "It is abrogated, it was abrogated by [His saying]: So turn your face in the direction of Al-Masjid Al-Haram. Meaning: facing it." And it has been reported that Mujãhid said about this Ayah: "So wherever you turn, there is the Face of Allah": "So there is the direction of Allah."

Notes

• قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ وَيُرْوَى عَنْ قَتَادَةَ أَنَّهُ قَالَ فِي هَذِهِ الآيَةِِ ()ولله الْمَشْرِقُ وَالْمَغْرِبُ فَأَيْنَمَا تُوَلُّوا فَثَمَّ وَجْهُ اللَّهِ ) قَالَ قَتَادَةُ هِيَ مَنْسُوخَةٌ نَسَخَهَا قَوْلُهُ (فَوَلِّ وَجْهَكَ شَطْرَ الْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرَامِ ) أَىْ تِلْقَاءَهُ حَدَّثَنَا بِذَلِكَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ أَبِي الشَّوَارِبِ حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ زُرَيْعٍ عَنْ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ وَيُرْوَى عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ فِي هَذِهِ الآيَةِ (أَيْنَمَا تُوَلُّوا فَثَمَّ وَجْهُ اللَّهِ ) قَالَ فَثَمَّ قِبْلَةُ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنَا بِذَلِكَ أَبُو كُرَيْبٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْعَلاَءِ حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ عَنِ النَّضْرِ بْنِ عَرَبِيٍّ عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ بِهَذَا

  machine translationAbū ʿĪsā said: This is a good and sound (ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ) hadith. It is narrated from Qatādah that he said about this verse: ﴿وَلِلَّهِ الْمَشْرِقُ وَالْمَغْرِبُ فَأَيْنَمَا تُوَلُّوا فَثَمَّ وَجْهُ اللَّهِ﴾ Qatādah said: It is abrogated; it was abrogated by His saying: ﴿فَوَلِّ وَجْهَكَ شَطْرَ الْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرَامِ﴾, that is, towards it. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Malik b. Abī al-Shawārib narrated this to us: Yazīd b. Zurayʿ narrated to us, from Saʿīd, from Qatādah. And it is narrated from Mujāhid about this verse: ﴿أَيْنَمَا تُوَلُّوا فَثَمَّ وَجْهُ اللَّهِ﴾ he said: There is the direction of prayer (qiblah) of God. Abū Kurayb Muḥammad b. al-ʿAlāʾ narrated this to us: Wakīʿ narrated to us, from al-Naḍr b. ʿArabī, from Mujāhid, with this. Report a problem

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• al-Tirmidhi

  هذا حديث حسن صحيح

  machine translationThis is a good and sound (ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ) hadith. Report a problem

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 3230

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 400Sahih Muslim 700aSahih Muslim 700bSahih Muslim 700gMusnad Ahmad 4518Musnad Ahmad 5001Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 3396Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 3399al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 2229al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 2284al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 3064

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb

   One of the Companions who narrated most often, and one of the ʿAbādilah; he was among the people most strict in following the narrations (athar).d. 72 AH, or 73 AH, or 74 AH, also said: 75 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِأحد المكثرين من الصحابة والعبادلة ، وكان من أشد الناس اتباعا للأثر
   يحدث عن
2. 2
   Saʿīd b. Jubayr al-Asadī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh); his narration from ʿĀʾishah, Abū Mūsā and the like is mursald. 95 AH, from al-Fallās: 94 AH
   سَعِيدَ بْنَ جُبَيْرٍثقة ثبت فقيه ، وروايته عن عائشة وأبي موسى ونحوهما مرسلة
   سمعت
3. 3
   ʿAbd al-Malik

   Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 145 AH or 147 AH
   عَبْدُ الْمَلِكِ بْنُ أَبِي سُلَيْمَانَصدوق له أوهام
   أخبرنا
4. 4
   Yazīd b. Hārūn

   Trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), devout (ʿābid).d. 206 AH.
   يَزِيدُ بْنُ هَارُونَثقة متقن عابد .
   أخبرنا
5. 5
   ʿAbd b. Ḥumayd

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 249 AH
   عَبْدُ بْنُ حُمَيْدٍثقة حافظ
   حدثنا
6. 6
   al-Tirmidhī

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

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