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ahmad:13113Yazīd b. Hārūn > Hammām > Anas b. Sīrīn

AbuSa'id said: I saw Wathilah ibn al-Asqa' in the mosque of Damascus. He spat at the mat and then rubbed it with his foot. He was asked: Why did you do so? He said: Because I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ doing so. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 484)   

أحمد:١٣١١٣حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ هَارُونَ أَخْبَرَنَا هَمَّامٌ عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ سِيرِينَ قَالَ تَلَقَّيْنَا أَنَسَ بْنَ مَالِكٍ حِينَ قَدِمَ مِنَ الشَّامِ فَلَقِينَاهُ بِعَيْنِ التَّمْرِ وَهُوَ يُصَلِّي عَلَى دَابَّتِهِ لِغَيْرِ الْقِبْلَةِ فَقُلْنَا لَهُ إِنَّكَ تُصَلِّي إِلَى غَيْرِ الْقِبْلَةِ فَقَالَ

لَوْلَا أَنِّي رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَفْعَلُ ذَلِكَ مَا فَعَلْتُ  


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nasai:1437Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm > al-Naḍr b. Shumayl > Shuʿbah > Yazīd b. Khumayr > Ḥabīb b. ʿUbayd > Jubayr b. Nufayr > Ibn al-Simṭ > Raʾayt ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb Yuṣallī Bidhī al-Ḥulayfah Rakʿatayn Fasaʾaltuh > Dhalik

"I saw 'Umar bin Al-Khattab praying two rak'ahs in Dhul-Hulaifah and I asked him about that. He said: 'I am simply doing that which I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ doing.'"  

النسائي:١٤٣٧أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا النَّضْرُ بْنُ شُمَيْلٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ خُمَيْرٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ حَبِيبَ بْنَ عُبَيْدٍ يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ جُبَيْرِ بْنِ نُفَيْرٍ عَنِ ابْنِ السِّمْطِ قَالَ رَأَيْتُ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ يُصَلِّي بِذِي الْحُلَيْفَةِ رَكْعَتَيْنِ فَسَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ ذَلِكَ فَقَالَ

إِنَّمَا أَفْعَلُ كَمَا رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَفْعَلُ  

abudawud:484Qutaybah b. Saʿīd > al-Faraj b. Faḍālah > Abū Saʿīd

AbuSa'id said: I saw Wathilah ibn al-Asqa' in the mosque of Damascus. He spat at the mat and then rubbed it with his foot. He was asked: Why did you do so? He said: Because I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ doing so.  

أبو داود:٤٨٤حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ حَدَّثَنَا الْفَرَجُ بْنُ فَضَالَةَ عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ قَالَ رَأَيْتُ وَاثِلَةَ بْنَ الأَسْقَعِ فِي مَسْجِدِ دِمَشْقَ بَصَقَ عَلَى الْبُورِيِّ ثُمَّ مَسَحَهُ بِرِجْلِهِ فَقِيلَ لَهُ لِمَ فَعَلْتَ هَذَا قَالَ

لأَنِّي رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَفْعَلُهُ  

darimi:1907Abū ʿĀṣim > Jaʿfar b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUthmān > Raʾayt Muḥammad b. ʿAbbād b. Jaʿfar Yastalim al-Ḥajar Thum Yuqabbiluh And Yasjud ʿAlayh > Lah Mā Hadhā > Raʾayt Khālak ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbbās Riḍwān Allāh ʿAlayh Yafʿaluh Thum > Raʾayt ʿUmar Faʿalah Thum

[Machine] "I know that you are a stone, but I have seen the Messenger of Allah ﷺ do this."  

الدارمي:١٩٠٧أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَاصِمٍ عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ قَالَ رَأَيْتُ مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ عَبَّادِ بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ يَسْتَلِمُ الْحَجَرَ ثُمَّ يُقَبِّلُهُ وَيَسْجُدُ عَلَيْهِ فَقُلْتُ لَهُ مَا هَذَا؟ فَقَالَ رَأَيْتُ خَالَكَ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ عَبَّاسٍ رِضْوَانُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ يَفْعَلُهُ ثُمَّ قَالَ رَأَيْتُ عُمَرَ فَعَلَهُ ثُمَّ قَالَ

«إِنِّي لَأَعْلَمُ أَنَّكَ حَجَرٌ وَلَكِنِّي رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَفْعَلُ هَذَا»  

hakim:1649ʿAlī b. Ḥamshādh al-ʿAdl > Hishām b. ʿAlī al-Sadūsī > Aḥmad b. Isḥāq al-Ḥaḍramī > Wuhayb > Mūsá b. Abū ʿUqbah > Nāfiʿ And Sālim

Nafi' said: Ibn Umar used to lengthen his prayer before the Friday prayer and would offer two rak'ahs after it in his house. He used to say that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ would do that. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 1128)  

الحاكم:١٦٤٩حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ حَمْشَاذَ الْعَدْلُ ثنا هِشَامُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ السَّدُوسِيُّ ثنا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ الْحَضْرَمِيُّ ثنا وُهَيْبٌ ثنا مُوسَى بْنُ أَبِي عُقْبَةَ حَدَّثَنِي نَافِعٌ وَسَالِمٌ أَنَّ ابْنَ عُمَرَ كَانَ «إِذَا مَرَّ بِذِي الْحُلَيْفَةِ بَاتَ فِيهَا حَتَّى يُصْبِحَ وَيُخْبِرُ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ كَانَ يَفْعَلُ ذَلِكَ»  

هَذَا حَدِيثٌ صَحِيحٌ عَلَى شَرْطِ الشَّيْخَيْنِ وَلَمْ يُخَرِّجَاهُ كَذَا
hakim:916Yaḥyá b. Manṣūr al-Qāḍī > Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Rajāʾ > Ṣafwān b. Ṣāliḥ al-Dimashqī > al-Walīd b. Muslim > Zuhayr b. Muḥammad al-Tamīmī > Zayd b. Aslam > Raʾayt Ibn ʿUmar Yuṣallī Maḥlūl Izāruh Fasaʾaltuh > Dhalik

"We prayed with Abdullah bin Mas'ud in his house. He stood between us and we placed our hands on our knees, but he took them off and made us interlace our fingers, and said: "I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ do that.'" (Using translation from Nasāʾī 1030)  

الحاكم:٩١٦أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ مَنْصُورٍ الْقَاضِي ثنا أَبُو بَكْرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ رَجَاءٍ ثنا صَفْوَانُ بْنُ صَالِحِ الدِّمَشْقِيُّ ثنا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ ثنا زُهَيْرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ التَّمِيمِيُّ ثنا زَيْدُ بْنُ أَسْلَمَ قَالَ رَأَيْتُ ابْنَ عُمَرَ «يُصَلِّي مَحْلُولٌ إِزَارُهُ» فَسَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ ذَلِكَ فَقَالَ

رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَفْعَلُهُ  

«هَذَا حَدِيثٌ صَحِيحٌ عَلَى شَرْطِ الشَّيْخَيْنِ وَلَمْ يُخَرِّجَاهُ» على شرطهما

ذِكْرُ الْبَيَانِ بِأَنَّ الْمُصْطَفَى ﷺ كَانَ يَمْسَحُ عَلَى الْخُفَّيْنِ بَعْدَ نُزُولِ سُورَةِ الْمَائِدَةِ

ibnhibban:1335Muḥammad b. Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm a freed slave of Thaqīf > Shuʿayb b. Ayyūb > Muṣʿab b. al-Miqdām > Dāwud al-Ṭāʾī > al-Aʿmash > Ibrāhīm > Hammām b. al-Ḥārith > Jarīr b. ʿAbdullāh > Tawaḍḍaʾ And Masaḥ > al-Khuffayn

"We prayed with Abdullah bin Mas'ud in his house. He stood between us and we placed our hands on our knees, but he took them off and made us interlace our fingers, and said: "I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ do that.'" (Using translation from Nasāʾī 1030)  

ابن حبّان:١٣٣٥أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ مَوْلَى ثَقِيفٍ حَدَّثَنَا شُعَيْبُ بْنُ أَيُّوبَ حَدَّثَنَا مُصْعَبُ بْنُ الْمِقْدَامِ حَدَّثَنَا دَاوُدُ الطَّائِيُّ عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ هَمَّامِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ عَنْ جَرِيرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ أَنَّهُ تَوَضَّأَ وَمَسَحَ عَلَى الْخُفَّيْنِ

وَقَالَ «رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَفْعَلُهُ»  

ذِكْرُ خَبَرٍ ثَالِثٍ يَدُلُّ عَلَى أَنَّ الْوِتْرَ غَيْرُ فَرْضٍ

ibnhibban:2412al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. Abū Maʿshar Biḥarrān > ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. ʿAmr al-Bajalī > Zuhayr b. Muʿāwiyah > al-Ḥasan b. al-Ḥur > Nāfiʿ > Ibn ʿUmar

Nafi' said: Ibn Umar used to lengthen his prayer before the Friday prayer and would offer two rak'ahs after it in his house. He used to say that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ would do that. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 1128)  

ابن حبّان:٢٤١٢أَخْبَرَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَبِي مَعْشَرٍ بِحَرَّانَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ عَمْرٍو الْبَجَلِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا زُهَيْرُ بْنُ مُعَاوِيَةَ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ الْحُرِّ عَنْ نَافِعٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ أَنَّهُ «كَانَ يُوتِرُ عَلَى الْبَعِيرِ وَيَذْكُرُ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ كَانَ يَفْعَلُ ذَلِكَ»  

ibnhibban:2476Abū Khalīfah > Musaddad b. Musarhad > Ismāʿīl > Ayyūb > Nāfiʿ

Nafi' said: Ibn Umar used to lengthen his prayer before the Friday prayer and would offer two rak'ahs after it in his house. He used to say that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ would do that. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 1128)  

ابن حبّان:٢٤٧٦أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو خَلِيفَةَ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا مُسَدَّدُ بْنُ مُسَرْهَدٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَيُّوبُ عَنْ نَافِعٍ قَالَ كَانَ ابْنُ عُمَرَ «يُطِيلُ الصَّلَاةَ قَبْلَ الْجُمُعَةِ وَيُصَلِّي بَعْدَهَا رَكْعَتَيْنِ فِي بَيْتِهِ» وَيُحَدِّثُ

«أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ كَانَ يَفْعَلُ ذَلِكَ»  

nasai-kubra:1908Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm > al-Naḍr b. Shumayl > Shuʿbah > Yazīd b. Khumayr > Ḥabīb b. ʿUbayd > Jubayr b. Nufayr > Ibn al-Simṭ > Raʾayt ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb Yuṣallī Bidhī al-Ḥulayfah Rakʿatayn Fasaʾaltuh > Dhalik

"I saw 'Umar bin Al-Khattab praying two rak'ahs in Dhul-Hulaifah and I asked him about that. He said: 'I am simply doing that which I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ doing.'" (Using translation from Nasāʾī 1437)  

الكبرى للنسائي:١٩٠٨أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا النَّضْرُ بْنُ شُمَيْلٍ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ خُمَيْرٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ حَبِيبَ بْنَ عُبَيْدٍ يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ جُبَيْرِ بْنِ نُفَيْرٍ عَنِ ابْنِ السِّمْطِ قَالَ رَأَيْتُ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ يُصَلِّي بِذِي الْحُلَيْفَةِ رَكْعَتَيْنِ فَسَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ ذَلِكَ فَقَالَ

«إِنَّمَا أَفْعَلُ كَمَا رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَفْعَلُ»