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bayhaqi:2955 – Muḥammad b. al-ʿAbbās > Muḥammad b. Ḥātim > Hushaym > Yūnus And Manṣūr > al-Ḥasan

[AI] He used to say, "Recite silently behind the imam in every prayer with the opening chapter of the book in your heart."

البيهقي:٢٩٥٥ – قَالَ وَثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْعَبَّاسِ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ حَاتِمٍ ثنا هُشَيْمٌ أنبأ يُونُسُ وَمَنْصُورٌ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ

أَنَّهُ كَانَ يَقُولُ اقْرَأْ خَلْفَ الْإِمَامِ فِي كُلِّ صَلَاةٍ بِفَاتِحَةِ الْكِتَابِ فِي نَفْسِكَ

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ذِكْرُ الْبَيَانِ بِأَنَّ قَوْلَهُ جَلَّ وَعَلَا: {فَاقْرَءُوا مَا تَيَسَّرَ مِنْهُ} أَرَادَ بِهِ فَاتِحَةَ الْكِتَابِ، إِذِ اللَّهُ جَلَّ وَعَلَا وَلَّى رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ بَيَانَ مَا أَنْزَلَ فِي كِتَابِهِ

ibnhibban:1782 – al-Ḥasan b. Sufyān > Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah > Ibn ʿUyaynah > al-Zuhrī > Maḥmūd b. al-Rabīʿ > ʿUbādah b. al-Ṣāmit Yablugh Bih

The Prophet ﷺ said: "There is no Salah for one who does not recite Fatihatil-Kitab." (Using translation from Nasāʾī 910)

ابن حبّان:١٧٨٢ – أَخْبَرَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ مَحْمُودِ بْنِ الرَّبِيعِ عَنْ عُبَادَةَ بْنِ الصَّامِتِ يَبْلُغُ بِهِ

النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ «لَا صَلَاةَ لِمَنْ لَا يَقْرَأُ بِفَاتِحَةِ الْكِتَابِ»

bayhaqi:2939 – Abū Saʿīd Yaḥyá b. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyá > Abū Baḥr al-Barbahārī > Bishr b. Mūsá > al-Ḥumaydī > Wakīʿ > Ismāʿīl b. Abū Khālid > al-ʿAyzār b. Ḥurayth > Ibn ʿAbbās

[AI] Read behind the Imam with the opening chapter of the book.

البيهقي:٢٩٣٩ – أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو سَعِيدٍ يَحْيَى بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَحْيَى أنبأ أَبُو بَحْرٍ الْبَرْبَهَارِيُّ ثنا بِشْرُ بْنُ مُوسَى ثنا الْحُمَيْدِيُّ ثنا وَكِيعٌ ثنا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ أَبِي خَالِدٍ عَنِ الْعَيْزَارِ بْنِ حُرَيْثٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ

اقْرَأْ خَلْفَ الْإِمَامِ بِفَاتِحَةِ الْكِتَابِ

suyuti:420-380b – al-Ghayzār b. Ḥurayth > Ibn ʿAbbās
Translation not available.
السيوطي:٤٢٠-٣٨٠ب –

"عَنِ الغَيْزَارِ بْنِ حُرَيْثٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ ابْنَ عَبَّاسٍ يَقُولُ: اقْرَأ خَلْفَ الإِمَام بِفَاتِحَةِ الكِتَابِ".

[ق] البيهقى في السنن فيه، وصححه