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ahmad:1484ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Mahdī And ʾAbū Saʿīd > ʿAbdullāh b. Jaʿfar > Ismāʿīl b. Muḥammad > Abū Saʿīd > Ismāʿīl b. Muḥammad > ʿĀmir b. Saʿd from his father

[Machine] The Prophet ﷺ used to say: "I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ raising his right hand in greeting until the whiteness of his cheek could be seen, and raising his left hand until the whiteness of his cheek could be seen."  

أحمد:١٤٨٤حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مَهْدِيٍّ وَأَبُو سَعِيدٍ قَالا حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ قَالَ أَبُو سَعِيدٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ عَامِرِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

كَانَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ وَقَالَ أَبُو سَعِيدٍ رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يُسَلِّمُ عَنْ يَمِينِهِ حَتَّى يُرَى بَيَاضُ خَدِّهِ وَعَنْ يَسَارِهِ حَتَّى يُرَى بَيَاضُ خَدِّهِ  


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muslim:582Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm > Abū ʿĀmir al-ʿAqadī > ʿAbdullāh b. Jaʿfar > Ismāʿīl b. Muḥammad > ʿĀmir b. Saʿd from his father

I saw the Messenger of Allah (may peace be open him) pronouncing taslim on his right and on his left till I saw the whiteness of his cheek.  

مسلم:٥٨٢وَحَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَامِرٍ الْعَقَدِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ عَامِرِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

كُنْتُ أَرَى رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يُسَلِّمُ عَنْ يَمِينِهِ وَعَنْ يَسَارِهِ حَتَّى أَرَى بَيَاضَ خَدِّهِ  

nasai:1323Muḥammad b. Ādam > ʿUmar b. ʿUbayd > Abū Isḥāq > Abū al-Aḥwaṣ > ʿAbdullāh

"The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to say the salam to his right so that the whiteness of his cheek could be seen, and to his left so that the whiteness of his cheek could be seen."  

النسائي:١٣٢٣أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ آدَمَ عَنْ عُمَرَ بْنِ عُبَيْدٍ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ أَبِي الأَحْوَصِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ

كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ يُسَلِّمُ عَنْ يَمِينِهِ حَتَّى يَبْدُوَ بَيَاضُ خَدِّهِ وَعَنْ يَسَارِهِ حَتَّى يَبْدُوَ بَيَاضُ خَدِّهِ  

ahmad:1564Yaḥyá > Muḥammad b. ʿAmr > Muṣʿab b. Thābit > Ismāʿīl b. Muḥammad b. Saʿd > ʿĀmir b. Saʿdʿan Abīh Saʿd b. Mālik

[Machine] The Prophet ﷺ used to greet by waving his right hand and then his left hand, until the whiteness of his cheeks became visible.  

أحمد:١٥٦٤حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو حَدَّثَنِي مُصْعَبُ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ عَنْ عَامِرِ بْنِ سَعْدٍعَنْ أَبِيهِ سَعْدِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ

كَانَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ يُسَلِّمُ عَنْ يَمِينِهِ وَعَنْ شِمَالِهِ حَتَّى يُرَى بَيَاضُ خَدَّيْهِ  

ahmad:24009-25ʿAbd al-Ṣamad > Mulāzim > Hawdhah b. Qays b. Ṭalq from his father from his grandfather

"The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to say the salam to his right so that the whiteness of his cheek could be seen, and to his left so that the whiteness of his cheek could be seen." (Using translation from Nasāʾī 1323)   

أحمد:٢٤٠٠٩-٢٥حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الصَّمَدِ حَدَّثَنَا مُلَازِمٌ حَدَّثَنِي هَوْذَةُ بْنُ قَيْسِ بْنِ طَلْقٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ جَدِّهِ قَالَ

كَانَ رَسُولًُ اللهِ ﷺ يُسَلِّمُ عَنْ يَمِينِهِ وَعَنْ يَسَارِهِ حَتَّى يُرَى بَيَاضُ خَدِّهِ الْأَيْمَنِ وَبَيَاضُ خَدِّهِ الْأَيْسَرِ  

darimi:1385Khālid b. Makhlad > ʿAbdullāh b. Jaʿfar > Ismāʿīl b. Muḥammad b. Saʿd > ʿĀmir b. Saʿd from his father

"The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to say the salam to his right so that the whiteness of his cheek could be seen, and to his left so that the whiteness of his cheek could be seen." (Using translation from Nasāʾī 1323)   

الدارمي:١٣٨٥حَدَّثَنَا خَالِدُ بْنُ مَخْلَدٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ عَنْ عَامِرِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «يُسَلِّمُ عَنْ يَمِينِهِ حَتَّى يُرَى بَيَاضُ خَدِّهِ ثُمَّ يُسَلِّمُ عَنْ يَسَارِهِ حَتَّى يُرَى بَيَاضُ خَدِّهِ»  

ذِكْرُ وَصْفِ التَّسْلِيمِ الَّذِي يَخْرُجُ الْمَرْءُ بِهِ مِنْ صَلَاتِهِ

ibnhibban:1992al-Ḥasan b. Sufyān > Ḥibbān b. Mūsá > ʿAbdullāh > Muṣʿab b. Thābit > Ismāʿīl b. Muḥammad > ʿĀmir b. Saʿd b. Abū Waqqāṣ from his father

[Machine] I saw the Messenger of Allahﷺ extending his greetings with his right hand and his left hand until the whiteness of his cheek could be seen.  

ابن حبّان:١٩٩٢أَخْبَرَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا حِبَّانُ بْنُ مُوسَى قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا مُصْعَبُ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ عَامِرِ بْنِ سَعْدِ بْنِ أَبِي وَقَّاصٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

«رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يُسَلِّمُ عَنْ يَمِينِهِ وَعَنْ يَسَارِهِ حَتَّى يُرَى بَيَاضُ خَدِّهِ»  

tabarani:10175Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad al-Firyābī > Sulaymān b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Dimashqī > Shuʿayb b. Isḥāq > Saʿīd b. Abū ʿArūbah > Khālid b. Maymūn > Abū Isḥāq > al-Aswad b. Hilāl > Ibn Masʿūd

[Machine] That the Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to greet with his right hand and his left hand until the whiteness of his cheek could be seen.  

الطبراني:١٠١٧٥حَدَّثَنَا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْفِرْيَابِيُّ ثنا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الدِّمَشْقِيُّ ثنا شُعَيْبُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ ثنا سَعِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي عَرُوبَةَ عَنْ خَالِدِ بْنِ مَيْمُونٍ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنِ الْأَسْوَدِ بْنِ هِلَالٍ عَنِ ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ كَانَ يُسَلِّمُ عَنْ يَمِينِهِ وَعَنْ يَسَارِهِ حَتَّى يُرَى بَيَاضُ خَدِّهِ  

tabarani:18399[Chain 1] ʿUmar b. Ḥafṣ al-Sadūsī > Abū Bilāl al-Ashʿarī [Chain 2] al-Ḥusayn b. Isḥāq al-Tustarī > Yaḥyá al-Ḥimmānī > Qays b. al-Rabīʿ > ʿAmr b. Murrah > Abū al-Bakhtarī > ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Yaḥṣibī > Wāʾil b. Ḥujr

[Machine] I saw the Prophet ﷺ greet with his right hand and his left hand until the whiteness of his cheek could be seen.  

الطبراني:١٨٣٩٩حَدَّثَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ حَفْصٍ السَّدُوسِيُّ ثنا أَبُو بِلَالٍ الْأَشْعَرِيُّ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ التُّسْتَرِيُّ ثنا يَحْيَى الْحِمَّانِيُّ قَالَا ثنا قَيْسُ بْنُ الرَّبِيعِ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مُرَّةَ عَنْ أَبِي الْبَخْتَرِيِّ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْيَحْصِبِيِّ عَنْ وَائِلِ بْنِ حُجْرٍ قَالَ

«رَأَيْتُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ يُسَلِّمُ عَنْ يَمِينِهِ وَعَنْ شِمَالِهِ حَتَّى يُرَى بَيَاضُ خَدِّهِ»  

nasai-kubra:1241Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm > Abū ʿĀmir al-ʿAqadī > ʿAbdullāh b. Jaʿfar > Ismāʿīl b. Muḥammad b. Saʿd > ʿĀmir b. Saʿd > Saʿd

I saw the Messenger of Allah (may peace be open him) pronouncing taslim on his right and on his left till I saw the whiteness of his cheek. (Using translation from Muslim 582)  

الكبرى للنسائي:١٢٤١أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَامِرٍ الْعَقَدِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ عَنْ عَامِرِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ عَنْ سَعْدٍ قَالَ

كُنْتُ أَرَى رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ «يُسَلِّمُ عَنْ يَمِينِهِ وَعَنْ يَسَارِهِ حَتَّى يُرَى بَيَاضُ خَدِّهِ»  

nasai-kubra:1247Muḥammad b. Ādam > ʿUmar b. ʿUbayd > Abū Isḥāq > Abū al-Aḥwaṣ > ʿAbdullāh

"The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to say the salam to his right so that the whiteness of his cheek could be seen, and to his left so that the whiteness of his cheek could be seen." (Using translation from Nasāʾī 1323)  

الكبرى للنسائي:١٢٤٧أَخْبَرَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ آدَمَ عَنْ عُمَرَ بْنِ عُبَيْدٍ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ أَبِي الْأَحْوَصِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ قَالَ

كَانَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «يُسَلِّمُ عَنْ يَمِينِهِ حَتَّى يَبْدُوَ بَيَاضَ خَدِّهِ وَعَنْ يَسَارِهِ حَتَّى يَبْدُوَ بَيَاضَ خَدِّهِ»