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bukhari:772Musaddad > Ismāʿīl b. Ibrāhīm > Ibn Jurayj > ʿAṭāʾ > Abū Hurayrah

The Qur'an is recited in every prayer and in those prayers in which Messenger of Allah ﷺ recited aloud for us, we recite aloud in the same prayers for you; and the prayers in which the Prophet ﷺ recited quietly, we recite quietly. If you recite "Al-Fatiha" only it is sufficient but if you recite something else in addition, it is better.  

البخاري:٧٧٢حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا ابْنُ جُرَيْجٍ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي عَطَاءٌ

أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ ؓ يَقُولُ فِي كُلِّ صَلاَةٍ يُقْرَأُ فَمَا أَسْمَعَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَسْمَعْنَاكُمْ وَمَا أَخْفَى عَنَّا أَخْفَيْنَا عَنْكُمْ وَإِنْ لَمْ تَزِدْ عَلَى أُمِّ الْقُرْآنِ أَجْزَأَتْ وَإِنْ زِدْتَ فَهُوَ خَيْرٌ  


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muslim:396bʿAmr al-Nāqid And Zuhayr b. Ḥarb Wa-al-Lafẓ Liʿamrw > Ismāʿīl b. Ibrāhīm > Ibn Jurayj > ʿAṭāʾ

If I add nothing to the (recitation) of the Umm al Qur'an (Surat al-Fatiha), would it make the prayer incomplete? He (AbuHuraira) said: If you add to that (if you recite some of verses of the Qur'an along with Surat at-Fatiha) that is better for you. But if you are contented with it (Surat al-Fatiha) only, it is sufficient for you.  

مسلم:٣٩٦bحَدَّثَنَا عَمْرٌو النَّاقِدُ وَزُهَيْرُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ وَاللَّفْظُ لِعَمْرٍو قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ أَخْبَرَنَا ابْنُ جُرَيْجٍ عَنْ عَطَاءٍ قَالَ قَالَ

أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ فِي كُلِّ الصَّلاَةِ يَقْرَأُ فَمَا أَسْمَعَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَسْمَعْنَاكُمْ وَمَا أَخْفَى مِنَّا أَخْفَيْنَا مِنْكُمْ فَقَالَ لَهُ رَجُلٌ إِنْ لَمْ أَزِدْ عَلَى أُمِّ الْقُرْآنِ فَقَالَ إِنْ زِدْتَ عَلَيْهَا فَهُوَ خَيْرٌ وَإِنِ انْتَهَيْتَ إِلَيْهَا أَجْزَأَتْ عَنْكَ  

muslim:396cYaḥyá b. Yaḥyá > Yazīd / Ibn Zurayʿ > Ḥabīb al-Muʿallim > ʿAṭāʾ

Recitation (of Surat al-Fatiha) in every (rak'ah) of prayer in essential. (The recitation) that we listened to from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ we made you listen to it. And that which he recited inwardly to us, we recited it inwardly for you. And he who recites Umm al-Qur'an, it is enough for him (to complete the prayer), and he who adds to it (recites some other verses of the Holy Qur'an along with Surat al-Fatiha), it is preferable for him.  

مسلم:٣٩٦cحَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ يَحْيَى أَخْبَرَنَا يَزِيدُ يَعْنِي ابْنَ زُرَيْعٍ عَنْ حَبِيبٍ الْمُعَلِّمِ عَنْ عَطَاءٍ قَالَ قَالَ

أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ فِي كُلِّ صَلاَةٍ قِرَاءَةٌ فَمَا أَسْمَعَنَا النَّبِيُّ ﷺ أَسْمَعْنَاكُمْ وَمَا أَخْفَى مِنَّا أَخْفَيْنَاهُ مِنْكُمْ وَمَنْ قَرَأَ بِأُمِّ الْكِتَابِ فَقَدْ أَجْزَأَتْ عَنْهُ وَمَنْ زَادَ فَهُوَ أَفْضَلُ  

nasai:969Muḥammad b. Qudāmah > Jarīr > Raqabah > ʿAṭāʾ > Abū Hurayrah Kul Ṣalāh Yuqraʾ Fīhā Famā

"Abu Hurairah said: "In should be recitation in every prayer. What the Messenger of Allah ﷺ made us hear (by reciting out loud) we make you hear, and what he hid from us (by reciting silently) we hide from you.'"  

النسائي:٩٦٩أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ قُدَامَةَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا جَرِيرٌ عَنْ رَقَبَةَ عَنْ عَطَاءٍ قَالَ قَالَ

أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ كُلُّ صَلاَةٍ يُقْرَأُ فِيهَا فَمَا أَسْمَعَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَسْمَعْنَاكُمْ وَمَا أَخْفَاهَا أَخْفَيْنَا مِنْكُمْ  

ahmad:9330Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar > Saʿīd / Ibn Abū ʿArūbah > Abū Muḥammad Aẓunnuh Ḥabīb b. al-Shahīd > ʿAṭāʾ b. Abū Rabāḥ > Abū Hurayrah

In every prayer there is a recitation. We make you listen what the Messenger of Allah ﷺ made us listen, and we keep hidden from you what he kept hidden from us. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 797)   

أحمد:٩٣٣٠حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدٌ يَعْنِي ابْنَ أَبِي عَرُوبَةَ عَنْ أَبِي مُحَمَّدٍ أَظُنُّهُ حَبِيبُ بْنُ الشَّهِيدِ عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ أَبِي رَبَاحٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ

فِي كُلِّ الصَّلَوَاتِ يَقْرَأُ فِيهَا فَمَا أَسْمَعَنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ أَسْمَعْنَاكُمْ وَمَا أَخْفَى عَلَيْنَا أَخْفَيْنَا عَلَيْكُمْ  

ahmad:9389ʿAffān > Ḥammād > Qays Wḥabīb > ʿAṭāʾ b. Abū Rabāḥ > Abū Hurayrah

In every prayer there is a recitation. We make you listen what the Messenger of Allah ﷺ made us listen, and we keep hidden from you what he kept hidden from us. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 797)   

أحمد:٩٣٨٩حَدَّثَنَا عَفَّانُ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادٌ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا قَيْسٌ وحَبِيبٌ عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ أَبِي رَبَاحٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ أَنَّهُ قَالَ فِي كُلِّ الصَّلَوَاتِ يُقْرَأُ فَمَا

أَسْمَعَنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ أَسْمَعْنَاكُمْ وَمَا أَخْفَى عَنَّا أَخْفَيْنَا عَنْكُمْ  

ahmad:7503ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Ḥaddād Abū ʿUbaydah > Ḥabīb b. al-Shahīd > ʿAṭāʾ > Abū Hurayrah Kul Ṣalāh Yuqraʾ Fīhā Famā

In every prayer there is a recitation. We make you listen what the Messenger of Allah ﷺ made us listen, and we keep hidden from you what he kept hidden from us. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 797)   

أحمد:٧٥٠٣حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَاحِدِ الْحَدَّادُ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ حَدَّثَنَا حَبِيبُ بْنُ الشَّهِيدِ عَنْ عَطَاءٍ قَالَ قَالَ

أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ كُلُّ صَلَاةٍ يُقْرَأُ فِيهَا فَمَا أَسْمَعَنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ أَسْمَعْنَاكُمْ وَمَا أَخْفَى عَلَيْنَا أَخْفَيْنَا عَلَيْكُمْ  

ahmad:7696ʿAbd al-Razzāq And Ibn Bakr > Ibn Jurayj > ʿAṭāʾ

[Machine] He heard Abu Huraira informed them in every prayer that what we hear from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, we convey to you, and what is hidden from us, we keep it hidden from you. Ibn Bakr said, in every prayer there is recitation of the Quran.  

أحمد:٧٦٩٦حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ وَابْنُ بَكْرٍ قَالَا أَخْبَرَنَا ابْنُ جُرَيْجٍ أَخْبَرَنِي عَطَاءٌ

أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ يُخْبِرُهُمْ فِي كُلِّ صَلَاةٍ يُقْرَأُ فَمَا أَسْمَعَنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ أَسْمَعْنَاكُمْ وَمَا أَخْفَى عَلَيْنَا أَخْفَيْنَا عَلَيْكُمْ قَالَ ابْنُ بَكْرٍ فِي كُلِّ صَلَاةٍ قُرْآنٌ  

ahmad:8525ʿAffān > Ḥammād > Qays And Ḥabīb > ʿAṭāʾ b. Abū Rabāḥ > Abū Hurayrah

In every prayer there is a recitation. We make you listen what the Messenger of Allah ﷺ made us listen, and we keep hidden from you what he kept hidden from us. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 797)  

أحمد:٨٥٢٥حَدَّثَنَا عَفَّانُ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادٌ عَنْ قَيْسٍ وَحَبِيبٍ عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ أَبِي رَبَاحٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ أَنَّهُ قَالَ فِي كُلِّ صَلَاةٍ يُقْرَأُ فَمَا

أَسْمَعَنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ أَسْمَعْنَاكُمْ وَمَا أَخْفَى عَلَيْنَا أَخْفَيْنَا عَلَيْكُمْ  

ذِكْرُ خَبَرٍ فِيهِ كَالدَّلِيلِ عَلَى إِيجَابِ الْقِرَاءَةِ الَّتِي وَصَفْنَاهَا عَلَى مَنْ ذَكَرْنَا نَعْتَهُمْ قَبْلُ

ibnhibban:1853Muḥammad b. Isḥāq b. Khuzaymah > ʿAbd al-Jabbār b. al-ʿAlāʾ > Sufyān > Ibn Jurayj > ʿAṭāʾ > Abū Hurayrah

[Machine] I heard Abu Hurairah saying, "In every prayer, there is recitation." So we never heard the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) reciting so loudly that you could hear him, nor did he recite so softly that you could not hear him.  

ابن حبّان:١٨٥٣أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ خُزَيْمَةَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْجَبَّارِ بْنُ الْعَلَاءِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنِ ابْنِ جُرَيْجٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ عَطَاءً يَقُولُ

سَمِعْتُ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ يَقُولُ «فِي كُلِّ صَلَاةٍ قِرَاءَةٌ» فَمَا أَسْمَعَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَسْمَعْنَاكُمْ وَمَا أَخْفَى عَلَيْنَا أَخْفَيْنَا عَنْكُمْ  

bayhaqi:2468Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥāfiẓ > Abū ʿAbdullāh Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb > Yaḥyá b. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyá > Musaddad > Ismāʿīl > Ibn Jurayj > ʿAṭāʾ from my father

If I add nothing to the (recitation) of the Umm al Qur'an (Surat al-Fatiha), would it make the prayer incomplete? He (AbuHuraira) said: If you add to that (if you recite some of verses of the Qur'an along with Surat at-Fatiha) that is better for you. But if you are contented with it (Surat al-Fatiha) only, it is sufficient for you. (Using translation from Muslim 396b)   

البيهقي:٢٤٦٨أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ ثنا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ ثنا يَحْيَى بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَحْيَى ثنا مُسَدَّدٌ ثنا إِسْمَاعِيلُ عَنِ ابْنِ جُرَيْجٍ عَنْ عَطَاءٍ قَالَ

قَالَ أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ ؓ فِي كُلِّ صَلَاةٍ قِرَاءَةٌ فَمَا أَسْمَعَنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ أَسْمَعْنَاكُمْ وَمَا أَخْفَى أَخْفَيْنَاهُ مِنْكُمْ فَقَالَ رَجُلٌ أَرَأَيْتَ إِنْ لَمْ أَزِدْ عَلَى أُمِّ الْقُرْآنِ؟ قَالَ إِنْ زِدْتَ عَلَيْهَا فَهُوَ خَيْرٌ وَإِنِ انْتَهَيْتَ عَلَيْهَا أَجْزَأَتْ عَنْكَ  

رَوَاهُ الْبُخَارِيُّ فِي الصَّحِيحِ عَنْ مُسَدَّدٍ
bayhaqi:2370Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥāfiẓ > Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb > Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad And Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Salām > Yaḥyá b. Yaḥyá > Yazīd b. Zurayʿ > Ḥabīb al-Muʿallim > ʿAṭāʾ from my father

Recitation (of Surat al-Fatiha) in every (rak'ah) of prayer in essential. (The recitation) that we listened to from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ we made you listen to it. And that which he recited inwardly to us, we recited it inwardly for you. And he who recites Umm al-Qur'an, it is enough for him (to complete the prayer), and he who adds to it (recites some other verses of the Holy Qur'an along with Surat al-Fatiha), it is preferable for him. (Using translation from Muslim 396c)   

البيهقي:٢٣٧٠أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ ثنا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ السَّلَامِ قَالَا ثنا يَحْيَى بْنُ يَحْيَى أنبأ يَزِيدُ بْنُ زُرَيْعٍ عَنْ حَبِيبٍ الْمُعَلِّمِ عَنْ عَطَاءٍ قَالَ

قَالَ أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ ؓ فِي كُلِّ صَلَاةٍ قِرَاءَةٌ فَمَا أَسْمَعَنَا النَّبِيُّ ﷺ أَسْمَعْنَاكُمْ وَمَا أُخْفَى مِنَّا أَخْفَيْنَاهُ مِنْكُمْ فَقَدْ أَجْزَأَتْ عَنْهُ وَمَنْ زَادَ فَهُوَ أَفْضَلُ  

رَوَاهُ مُسْلِمٌ فِي الصَّحِيحِ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ يَحْيَى