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ahmad:25903 – Abū Kāmil > Zuhayr > Ibrāhīm b. Muhājir al-Bajalī > Mujāhid > al-Sāʾib Saʾal ʿĀʾishah > Innī Lā Astaṭīʿ > Uṣallī Illā Jālis Fakayf Tarayn

[Machine] I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, "The prayer of a man while sitting is like half of his prayer while standing."  

أحمد:٢٥٩٠٣ – حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو كَامِلٍ حَدَّثَنَا زُهَيْرٌ حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ مُهَاجِرٍ الْبَجَلِيُّ عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ أَنَّ السَّائِبَ سَأَلَ عَائِشَةَ فَقَالَ إِنِّي لَا أَسْتَطِيعُ أَنْ أُصَلِّيَ إِلَّا جَالِسًا فَكَيْفَ تَرَيْنَ؟ قَالَتْ

سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ صَلَاةُ الرَّجُلِ جَالِسًا مِثْلُ نِصْفِ صَلَاتِهِ قَائِمًا  

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Collected by Mālik, Aḥmad, Ṭabarānī
malik:8-20 – Yaḥyá > Mālik > Ismāʿīl b. Muḥammad b. Saʿd b. Abū Waqqāṣ > a freed slave of Liʿamriw b. al-ʿĀṣ Aw Liʿabd Allāh b. ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣ > ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣ

Yahya related to me from Malik from Ismail ibn Muhammad ibn Said ibn Abi Waqqas from a mawla of Amr ibn al-As or of Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-As that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "The prayer of one of you sitting down is only equal to half the prayer of one of you when he is standing."  

مالك:٨-٢٠ – حَدَّثَنِي يَحْيَى عَنْ مَالِكٍ عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سَعْدِ بْنِ أَبِي وَقَّاصٍ عَنْ مَوْلًى لِعَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِ أَوْ لِعَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ صَلاَةُ أَحَدِكُمْ وَهُوَ قَاعِدٌ مِثْلُ نِصْفِ صَلاَتِهِ وَهُوَ قَائِمٌ  

ahmad:24327 – Abū Nuʿaym > Isrāʾīl > Brāhīm b. Muhājir > Mujāhid > ʿĀʾishah

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "The prayer of the one sitting is half the prayer of the one standing."  

أحمد:٢٤٣٢٧ – حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو نُعَيْمٍ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْرَائِيلُ عَنْ إبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ مُهَاجِرٍ عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ قَالَتْ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ صَلَاةُ الْجَالِسِ عَلَى النِّصْفِ مِنْ صَلَاةِ الْقَائِمِ  

tabarani:742 – Aḥmad b. Dāwud al-Makkī > al-Nuʿmān b. Shibl > ʿAbdullāh b. Jaʿfar al-Mukharrimī > Ismāʿīl b. Muḥammad b. Saʿd > Anas b. Mālik

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "Prayer while sitting is equivalent to half of the prayer while standing."  

الطبراني:٧٤٢ – حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ دَاوُدَ الْمَكِّيُّ ثنا النُّعْمَانُ بْنُ شِبْلٍ ثنا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ الْمُخَرِّمِيُّ عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «صَلَاةُ الْقَاعِدِ عَلَى مِثْلِ نِصْفِ صَلَاةِ الْقَائِمِ»  

tabarani:13122 – Yaḥyá b. ʿUthmān b. Ṣāliḥ > Abū Ṣāliḥ al-Ḥarrānī > ʿAbd al-Razzāq b. ʿUmar > al-Zuhrī > Sālim from his father

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "The prayer of the sitting person is equivalent to half the prayer of the standing person."  

الطبراني:١٣١٢٢ – حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ صَالِحٍ ثنا أَبُو صَالِحٍ الْحَرَّانِيُّ ثنا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ بْنُ عُمَرَ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ سَالِمٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «صَلَاةُ الْقَاعِدِ مِثْلُ نِصْفِ صَلَاةِ الْقَائِمِ»