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ahmad:11977Ziyād b. al-Rabīʿ Abū Khidāsh al-Yuḥmadī > Abū ʿImrān al-Jawnī > Anas b. Mālik

[Machine] I heard Anas ibn Malik say, "I do not know anything today that we used to practice during the time of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ." We asked him, "So where is the prayer?" He replied, "Did you not do in the prayer what you already knew?"  

أحمد:١١٩٧٧حَدَّثَنَا زِيَادُ بْنُ الرَّبِيعِ أَبُو خِدَاشٍ الْيُحْمَدِيُّ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عِمْرَانَ الْجَوْنِيَّ يَقُولُ

سَمِعْتُ أَنَسَ بْنَ مَالِكٍ يَقُولُ مَا أَعْرِفُ شَيْئًا الْيَوْمَ مِمَّا كُنَّا عَلَيْهِ عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ قُلْنَا لَهُ فَأَيْنَ الصَّلَاةُ؟ قَالَ أَوَلَمْ تَصْنَعُوا فِي الصَّلَاةِ مَا قَدْ عَلِمْتُمْ  


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Collected by Bukhārī, Tirmidhī
bukhari:529Mūsá b. Ismāʿīl > Mahdī > Ghaylān > Anas

Anas said, "I do not find (now-a-days) things as they were (practiced) at the time of the Prophet." Somebody said "The prayer (is as it was.)" Anas said, "Have you not done in the prayer what you have done?  

البخاري:٥٢٩حَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مَهْدِيٌّ عَنْ غَيْلاَنَ عَنْ أَنَسٍ قَالَ

مَا أَعْرِفُ شَيْئًا مِمَّا كَانَ عَلَى عَهْدِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قِيلَ الصَّلاَةُ قَالَ أَلَيْسَ ضَيَّعْتُمْ مَا ضَيَّعْتُمْ فِيهَا  

tirmidhi:2447Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Bazīʿ > Ziyād b. al-Rabīʿ > Abū ʿImrān al-Jawnī > Anas b. Mālik

"From Anas bin Malik who said : 'I do not recognize anything (today) from what we were upon during the time of The Messenger of Allah ﷺ.' So I said : 'What about the Salat?' He said: 'Have you (people) not done what you know (you have done)?'" Other chains report similar narrations.  

الترمذي:٢٤٤٧حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ بَزِيعٍ حَدَّثَنَا زِيَادُ بْنُ الرَّبِيعِ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عِمْرَانَ الْجَوْنِيُّ عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ

مَا أَعْرِفُ شَيْئًا مِمَّا كُنَّا عَلَيْهِ عَلَى عَهْدِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ فَقُلْتُ أَيْنَ الصَّلاَةُ قَالَ أَوَلَمْ تَصْنَعُوا فِي صَلاَتِكُمْ مَا قَدْ عَلِمْتُمْ  

قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ غَرِيبٌ مِنْ هَذَا الْوَجْهِ مِنْ حَدِيثِ أَبِي عِمْرَانَ الْجَوْنِيِّ وَقَدْ رُوِيَ مِنْ غَيْرِ وَجْهٍ عَنْ أَنَسٍ