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ahmad:4735Ibn Numayr > ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿUmar > Nāfiʿ > Ibn ʿUmar

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "A man should not make another man leave his seat and then sit in it himself, but rather make room and accommodate each other."  

أحمد:٤٧٣٥حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ نُمَيْرٍ حَدَّثَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ عَنْ نَافِعٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ لَا يُقِيمُ الرَّجُلُ الرَّجُلَ عَنْ مَقْعَدِهِ ثُمَّ يَقْعُدُ فِيهِ وَلَكِنْ تَفَسَّحُوا وَتَوَسَّعُوا  


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Collected by Muslim, Aḥmad, Dārimī, Ibn Ḥibbān, Suyūṭī
muslim:2177b[Chain 1] Yaḥyá b. Yaḥyá > ʿAbdullāh b. Numayr [Chain 2] Ibn Numayr from my father [Chain 3] Zuhayr b. Ḥarb > Yaḥyá And Hw al-Qaṭṭān [Chain 4] Ibn al-Muthanná

No person should ask another person to stand at his place and then he should himself sit there, but he should simply say: Make room and accommodate.  

مسلم:٢١٧٧bحَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ يَحْيَى أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ نُمَيْرٍ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ نُمَيْرٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي ح وَحَدَّثَنَا زُهَيْرُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى وَهْوَ الْقَطَّانُ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ الْمُثَنَّى حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَهَّابِ يَعْنِي الثَّقَفِيَّ كُلُّهُمْ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ وَاللَّفْظُ لَهُ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بِشْرٍ وَأَبُو أُسَامَةَ وَابْنُ نُمَيْرٍ قَالُوا حَدَّثَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ عَنْ نَافِعٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ لاَ يُقِيمُ الرَّجُلُ الرَّجُلَ مِنْ مَقْعَدِهِ ثُمَّ يَجْلِسُ فِيهِ وَلَكِنْ تَفَسَّحُوا وَتَوَسَّعُوا  

ahmad:5785Muḥammad b. ʿUbayd > ʿUbaydullāh > Nāfiʿ > Ibn ʿUmar

No person should ask another person to stand at his place and then he should himself sit there, but he should simply say: Make room and accommodate. (Using translation from Muslim 2177b)   

أحمد:٥٧٨٥حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ حَدَّثَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللهِ عَنْ نَافِعٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ لَا يُقِيمُ الرَّجُلُ الرَّجُلَ مِنْ مَقْعَدِهِ ثُمَّ يَجْلِسُ فِيهِ وَلَكِنْ تَفَسَّحُوا وَتَوَسَّعُوا  

ahmad:4659Yaḥyá > ʿUbaydullāh > Nāfiʿ > Ibn ʿUmar

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "A person should not prevent another person from sitting in his gathering, but rather make room and expand."  

أحمد:٤٦٥٩حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللهِ أَخْبَرَنِي نَافِعٌ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ لَا يُقِيمُ الرَّجُلُ الرَّجُلَ مِنْ مَجْلِسِهِ فَيَجْلِسَ فِيهِ وَلَكِنْ تَفَسَّحُوا وَتَوَسَّعُوا  

darimi:2695Musaddad > Bishr b. al-Mufaḍḍal > ʿUbaydullāh > Nāfiʿ > Ibn ʿUmar

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "A person should not push his brother out of his place and then sit in it, rather you should make room and expand."  

الدارمي:٢٦٩٥أَخْبَرَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ حَدَّثَنَا بِشْرُ بْنُ الْمُفَضَّلِ حَدَّثَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ عَنْ نَافِعٍ عَنْ ابْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ لَا يُقِيمُ الرَّجُلُ يَعْنِي أَخَاهُ مِنْ مَجْلِسِهِ ثُمَّ يَقْعُدُ فِيهِ وَلَكِنْ تَفَسَّحُوا وَتَوَسَّعُوا  

ذِكْرُ الْبَيَانِ بِأَنَّ الْمَجَالِسَ إِذَا تَضَايَقَتْ كَانَ عَلَيْهِمُ التَّوَسُّعُ وَالتَّفْسِيحُ، دُونَ أَنْ يُقِيمَ أَحَدُهُمْ آخَرَ عَنْ مَجْلِسِهِ

ibnhibban:586Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn al-Jarādī Bi-al-Mawṣil > Isḥāq b. Zurayq al-Rasʿanī > Ibrāhīm b. Khālid al-Ṣanʿānī > Sufyān > ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿUmar > Nāfiʿ > Ibn ʿUmar

[Machine] "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ prohibited one person from sitting in the place of another person, but rather make space and expand."  

ابن حبّان:٥٨٦أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ الْجَرَادِيُّ بِالْمَوْصِلِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ زُرَيْقٍ الرَّسْعَنِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ الصَّنْعَانِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ عَنْ نَافِعٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ

«نَهَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَنْ يُقِيمَ الرَّجُلُ الرَّجُلَ مِنْ مَقْعَدِهِ فَيَقْعُدَ فِيهِ وَلَكِنْ تَفَسَّحُوا وَتَوَسَّعُوا»