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ahmad:16563Yaḥyá b. Isḥāq > Ibn Lahīʿah > Ḥabbān b. Wāsiʿ > Khallād b. al-Sāʾib al-Anṣārī

[Machine] The translation of the passage is: "Indeed, the Prophet ﷺ used to place the palms of his hands on his face whenever he made supplication."  

أحمد:١٦٥٦٣حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا ابْنُ لَهِيعَةَ عَنْ حَبَّانَ بْنِ وَاسِعٍ عَنْ خَلَّادِ بْنِ السَّائِبِ الْأَنْصَارِيِّ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ كَانَ إِذَا دَعَا جَعَلَ بَاطِنَ كَفَّيْهِ إِلَى وَجْهِهِ  


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ahmad:12239Yazīd > Ḥammād b. Salamah > Thābit al-Bunānī > Anas b. Mālik

[Machine] The translation of the passage into English is: "Indeed, when the Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to supplicate, he would place the palms of his hands outward from what follows his face, and the backs of his hands inward from what follows the earth."  

أحمد:١٢٢٣٩حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ أَخْبَرَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ ثَابِتٍ الْبُنَانِيِّ عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ كَانَ إِذَا دَعَا جَعَلَ ظَاهِرَ كَفَّيْهِ مِمَّا يَلِي وَجْهَهُ وَبَاطِنَهُمَا مِمَّا يَلِي الْأَرْضَ  

tabarani:12234Muḥammad b. al-Faḍl al-Saqaṭī > Saʿīd b. Sulaymān > ʿAbbād b. al-ʿAwwām > Muḥammad b. Isḥāq > Khuṣayf > Saʿīd b. Jubayr > Ibn ʿAbbās

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to place the inside of his palm on his face when making supplication.  

الطبراني:١٢٢٣٤حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْفَضْلِ السَّقَطِيُّ ثنا سَعِيدُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ ثنا عَبَّادُ بْنُ الْعَوَّامِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ خُصَيْفٍ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ

كَانَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «إِذَا دَعَا جَعَلَ بَاطِنَ كَفِّهِ إِلَى وَجْهِهِ»  

tabarani:6625Abū al-Zinbāʿ Rawḥ b. al-Faraj > ʿAmr b. Khālid al-Ḥarrānī > Ibn Lahīʿah > Ḥafṣ b. Hāshim b. ʿUtbah b. Abū Waqqāṣ > Khallād b. al-Sāʾib from his father

[Machine] "That the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, when he would make du'a (supplication), he would raise his palms towards his face."  

الطبراني:٦٦٢٥حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الزِّنْبَاعِ رَوْحُ بْنُ الْفَرَجِ ثنا عَمْرُو بْنُ خَالِدٍ الْحَرَّانِيُّ ثنا ابْنُ لَهِيعَةَ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ حَفْصَ بْنَ هَاشِمِ بْنِ عُتْبَةَ بْنِ أَبِي وَقَّاصٍ يَذْكُرُ أَنَّ خَلَّادَ بْنَ السَّائِبِ حَدَّثَهُ عَنْ أَبِيهِ

«أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ كَانَ إِذَا دَعَا رَفَعَ رَاحَتَيْهِ إِلَى وَجْهِهِ»