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hakim:793Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad al-Muqriʾ Bi-al-Kūfah > Abū ʿUmar Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar al-Qurashī > Abū Nuʿaym > Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Bālawayh > Bishr b. Mūsá > Khallād b. Yaḥyá > Abū Bakr b. Abū Naṣr al-Marwazī > Muḥammad b. Ghālib > Abū Ḥudhayfah > Sufyān > Yaḥyá b. Hāniʾ > ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Maḥmūd

I offered the Friday prayer along with Anas ibn Malik. We were pushed to the pillars (due to the crowd of people). We, therefore, stopped forward and backward. Anas then said: We used to avoid it (setting a row between the pillars) during the time of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 673)   

الحاكم:٧٩٣حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الْحَسَنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْمُقْرِئُ بِالْكُوفَةِ ثنا أَبُو عُمَرَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ الْقُرَشِيُّ ثنا أَبُو نُعَيْمٍ وَحَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ بَالَوَيْهِ ثنا بِشْرُ بْنُ مُوسَى ثنا خَلَّادُ بْنُ يَحْيَى وَأَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي نَصْرٍ الْمَرْوَزِيُّ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ غَالِبٍ ثنا أَبُو حُذَيْفَةَ قَالُوا حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ ثنا يَحْيَى بْنُ هَانِئٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْحَمِيدِ بْنِ مَحْمُودٍ قَالَ كُنْتُ مَعَ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ أُصَلِّي قَالَ فَأَلْقَوْنَا بَيْنَ السَّوَارِي قَالَ فَتَأَخَّرَ أَنَسٌ فَلَمَّا صَلَّيْنَا قَالَ

«إِنَّا كُنَّا نَتَّقِي هَذَا عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ»  


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abudawud:673Muḥammad b. Bashhār > ʿAbd al-Raḥman > Sufyān > Yaḥyá b. Hāniʾ > ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Maḥmūd > Ṣallayt Maʿ Anas b. Mālik Yawm al-Jumuʿah Fadufiʿnā > al-Sawārī Fataqaddamnā And Taʾakhharnā

I offered the Friday prayer along with Anas ibn Malik. We were pushed to the pillars (due to the crowd of people). We, therefore, stopped forward and backward. Anas then said: We used to avoid it (setting a row between the pillars) during the time of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.  

أبو داود:٦٧٣حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ هَانِئٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْحَمِيدِ بْنِ مَحْمُودٍ قَالَ صَلَّيْتُ مَعَ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ يَوْمَ الْجُمُعَةِ فَدُفِعْنَا إِلَى السَّوَارِي فَتَقَدَّمْنَا وَتَأَخَّرْنَا فَقَالَ

أَنَسٌ كُنَّا نَتَّقِي هَذَا عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ  

ahmad:15032Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd al-Umawī > Ibn Jurayj > ʿAṭāʾ > Jābir And Suʾil > al-ʿAzl

[Machine] We used to make it during the time of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.  

أحمد:١٥٠٣٢حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الْأُمَوِيُّ أَخْبَرَنَا ابْنُ جُرَيْجٍ عَنْ عَطَاءٍ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ جَابِرًا وَسُئِلَ عَنْ الْعَزْلِ فَقَالَ

قَدْ كُنَّا نَصْنَعُهُ عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ  

ahmad:15072ʿAbd al-Razzāq > Ibn Jurayj > ʿAṭāʾ > Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh And Dhakarūā al-ʿAzl

[Machine] “We used to make it during the time of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.”  

أحمد:١٥٠٧٢حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ أَخْبَرَنَا ابْنُ جُرَيْجٍ أَخْبَرَنِي عَطَاءٌ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ جَابِرَ بْنَ عَبْدِ اللهِ وَذَكَرُوا الْعَزْلَ فَقَالَ

كُنَّا نَصْنَعُهُ عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ  

ذِكْرُ الزَّجْرِ عَنِ الصَّلَاةِ بَيْنَ السَّوَارِي جَمَاعَةً

ibnhibban:2218ʿUmar b. Muḥammad al-Hamdānī > Bundār > Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd > Sufyān > Yaḥyá b. Hāniʾ > ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Maḥmūd > Ṣallayt > Janb Anas b. Mālik Bayn al-Sawārī

I offered the Friday prayer along with Anas ibn Malik. We were pushed to the pillars (due to the crowd of people). We, therefore, stopped forward and backward. Anas then said: We used to avoid it (setting a row between the pillars) during the time of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 673)   

ابن حبّان:٢٢١٨أَخْبَرَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْهَمْدَانِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا بُنْدَارٌ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ هَانِئٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْحَمِيدِ بْنِ مَحْمُودٍ قَالَ «صَلَّيْتُ إِلَى جَنْبِ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ بَيْنَ السَّوَارِي» فَقَالَ

«كُنَّا نَتَّقِي هَذَا عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ»  

tabarani:14921Muḥammad b. Yaḥyá b. Mandah al-Aṣbahānī > Abū Kurayb > Rishdīn b. Saʿd > Yazīd b. Abū Ḥabīb > Abū al-Khayr > Abū Tamīm al-Jayshānī Qām Farakaʿ Rakʿatayn Qabl al-Maghrib > Liʿuqbah b. ʿĀmir Ānẓur > Hadhā Ay Ṣalāh Yuṣallī And al-Tafat

"Abu Tamim Al-Jaishani stood up to pray two Rak'ahs before Maghrib, and I said to 'Uqbah bin 'Amir: 'Look at this man, what prayer is he praying?' He turned and looked at him, and said: 'This is a prayer that we used to pray at the time of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.'" (Using translation from Nasāʾī 582)  

الطبراني:١٤٩٢١حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى بْنِ مَنْدَهْ الْأَصْبَهَانِيُّ ثَنَا أَبُو كُرَيْبٍ ثَنَا رِشْدِينُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ أَبِي حَبِيبٍ أَنَّ أَبَا الْخَيْرِ حَدَّثَهُ أَنَّ أَبَا تَمِيمٍ الْجَيْشَانِيَّ قَامَ §فَرَكَعَ رَكْعَتَيْنِ قَبْلَ الْمَغْرِبِ فَقُلْتُ لِعُقْبَةَ بْنِ عَامِرٍ انْظُرْ إِلَى هَذَا أَيُّ صَلَاةٍ يُصَلِّي؟ فَالْتَفَتَ فَقَالَ

«هَذِهِ صَلَاةٌ كُنَّا نُصَلِّيهَا عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ»  

bayhaqi:9570Abū ʿAlī al-Rūdhbārī > Muḥammad b. Bakr > Abū Dāwud > Muḥammad b. Khallād al-Bāhilī > Yaḥyá > Ibn Jurayj > ʿAṭāʾ > Mukhbir > Asmāʾ > Ramat al-Jamrah > Innā Ramaynā al-Jamrah Bilayl

[Machine] We used to do this during the time of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.  

البيهقي:٩٥٧٠وَأَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الرُّوذْبَارِيُّ أنبأ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَكْرٍ ثنا أَبُو دَاوُدَ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ خَلَّادٍ الْبَاهِلِيُّ ثنا يَحْيَى عَنِ ابْنِ جُرَيْجٍ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي عَطَاءٌ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي مُخْبِرٌ عَنْ أَسْمَاءَ ؓ أَنَّهَا رَمَتِ الْجَمْرَةَ قُلْتُ إِنَّا رَمَيْنَا الْجَمْرَةَ بِلَيْلٍ قَالَتْ

إِنَّا كُنَّا نَصْنَعُ هَذَا عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ  

bayhaqi:5204Abū al-Qāsim b. Abū Hāshim al-ʿAlawī Bi-al-Kūfah And ʾAbū Bakr b. al-Ḥasan al-Qāḍī Binaysābūr > Abū Jaʿfar b. Duḥaym > Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn b. Abū Ḥunayn > Qabīṣah b. ʿUqbah > Sufyān > Yaḥyá b. Hāniʾ > ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Maḥmūd

I offered the Friday prayer along with Anas ibn Malik. We were pushed to the pillars (due to the crowd of people). We, therefore, stopped forward and backward. Anas then said: We used to avoid it (setting a row between the pillars) during the time of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 673)   

البيهقي:٥٢٠٤أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الْقَاسِمِ بْنُ أَبِي هَاشِمٍ الْعَلَوِيُّ بِالْكُوفَةِ وَأَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ الْقَاضِي بِنَيْسَابُورَ قَالَا أنبأ أَبُو جَعْفَرِ بْنُ دُحَيْمٍ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ أَبِي حُنَيْنٍ ثنا قَبِيصَةُ بْنُ عُقْبَةَ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ ثنا يَحْيَى بْنُ هَانِئٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْحَمِيدِ بْنِ مَحْمُودٍ قَالَ كُنَّا مَعَ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ فِي الصَّفِّ فَرَمَوْا بِنَا حَتَّى أُلْقِينَا بَيْنَ السَّوَارِي فَتَأَخَّرَ فَلَمَّا صَلَّى قَالَ

قَدْ كُنَّا نَتَّقِي هَذَا عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ