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bayhaqi:2898Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥāfiẓ > Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb > al-ʿAbbās b. Muḥammad al-Dūrī > Yaḥyá b. Abū Bukayr And ʾIsḥāq b. Manṣūr al-Salūlī > al-Ḥasan b. Ṣāliḥ b. Ḥay > Jābir Walayth b. Abū Sulaym > Abū al-Zubayr > Jābir

[Machine] The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ said, "Whoever has an imam, the recitation of the imam is the recitation for him. Jabir al-Ju'fi and Layth ibn Abi Sulaym are not to be referred to (as imams), and anyone who follows them in this matter is less knowledgeable than them or one of them. And what is preserved from Jabir in this matter is..."  

البيهقي:٢٨٩٨أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ ثنا أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ ثنا الْعَبَّاسُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الدُّورِيُّ ثنا يَحْيَى بْنُ أَبِي بُكَيْرٍ وَإِسْحَاقُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍ السَّلُولِيُّ قَالَا ثنا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ صَالِحِ بْنِ حَيٍّ عَنْ جَابِرٍ وَلَيْثِ بْنِ أَبِي سُلَيْمٍ عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ مَنْ كَانَ لَهُ إِمَامٌ فَقِرَاءَةُ الْإِمَامِ لَهُ قِرَاءَةٌ جَابِرٌ الْجُعْفِيُّ وَلَيْثُ بْنُ أَبِي سُلَيْمٍ لَا يُحْتَجُّ بِهِمَا وَكُلُّ مَنْ تَابَعَهُمَا عَلَى ذَلِكَ أَضْعَفُ مِنْهُمَا أَوْ مِنْ أَحَدِهِمَا وَالْمَحْفُوظُ عَنْ جَابِرٍ فِي هَذَا الْبَابِ