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ذِكْرُ مَا يُسْتَحَبُّ لِلْمُصَلِّي أَنْ يُجَافِيَ فِي سُجُودِهِ حَتَّى يُرَى بَيَاضُ إِبْطَيْهِ

ibnhibban:1919ʿUmar b. Muḥammad al-Hamdānī > Muḥammad b. Sahl b. ʿAskar > Abū al-Aswad al-Naḍr b. ʿAbd al-Jabbār > Bakr b. Muḍar > Jaʿfar b. Rabīʿah > ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Hurmuz al-Aʿraj > Ibn Buḥaynah

[Machine] "The Prophet ﷺ used to raise his hands and spread them in front of him during prostration until the whiteness of his armpits was visible."  

ابن حبّان:١٩١٩أَخْبَرَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْهَمْدَانِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سَهْلِ بْنِ عَسْكَرٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْأَسْوَدِ النَّضْرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا بَكْرُ بْنُ مُضَرٍ عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ رَبِيعَةَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ هُرْمُزَ الْأَعْرَجِ عَنِ ابْنِ بُحَيْنَةَ قَالَ

«كَانَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ إِذَا سَجَدَ فَرَّجَ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ حَتَّى يَبْدُوَ بَيَاضُ إِبْطَيْهِ»  


See similar narrations below:

Collected by Bukhārī, Muslim, Nasāʾī, Aḥmad, Nasāʾī's Kubrá
bukhari:3564Qutaybah b. Saʿīd > Bakr b. Muḍar > Jaʿfar b. Rabīʿah > al-Aʿraj > ʿAbdullāh b. Mālik Ibn Buḥaynah al-Asdī

When the Prophet ﷺ prostrated, he used to keep his arms so widely apart that we used to see his armpits. (The sub-narrator, Ibn Bukair said, "The whiteness of his armpits.")  

البخاري:٣٥٦٤حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ حَدَّثَنَا بَكْرُ بْنُ مُضَرَ عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ رَبِيعَةَ عَنِ الأَعْرَجِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ ابْنِ بُحَيْنَةَ الأَسْدِيِّ قَالَ

كَانَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ إِذَا سَجَدَ فَرَّجَ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ حَتَّى نَرَى إِبْطَيْهِ قَالَ وَقَالَ ابْنُ بُكَيْرٍ حَدَّثَنَا بَكْرٌ بَيَاضَ إِبْطَيْهِ  

muslim:495aQutaybah b. Saʿīd > Bakr / Ibn Muḍar > Jaʿfar b. Rabīʿah > al-Aʿraj > ʿAbdullāh b. Mālik Ibn Buḥaynah

When the Prophet ﷺ prostrated, lie spread out his arms so that the whiteness of his armpits was visible.  

مسلم:٤٩٥aحَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ حَدَّثَنَا بَكْرٌ وَهُوَ ابْنُ مُضَرَ عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ رَبِيعَةَ عَنِ الأَعْرَجِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ ابْنِ بُحَيْنَةَ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ كَانَ إِذَا صَلَّى فَرَّجَ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ حَتَّى يَبْدُوَ بَيَاضُ إِبْطَيْهِ  

nasai:1106Qutaybah > Bakr > Jaʿfar b. Rabīʿah > al-Aʿraj > ʿAbdullāh b. Mālik Ibn Buḥaynah

When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ prayed he held his arms out so much that the whiteness of his armpits appeared.  

النسائي:١١٠٦أَخْبَرَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا بَكْرٌ عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ رَبِيعَةَ عَنِ الأَعْرَجِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَالِكِ ابْنِ بُحَيْنَةَ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ كَانَ إِذَا صَلَّى فَرَّجَ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ حَتَّى يَبْدُوَ بَيَاضُ إِبْطَيْهِ  

ahmad:22925Qutaybah b. Saʿīd > Bakr b. Muḍar > Jaʿfar b. Rabīʿah > al-Aʿraj > ʿAbdullāh b. Mālik Ibn Buḥaynah

When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ prayed he held his arms out so much that the whiteness of his armpits appeared. (Using translation from Nasāʾī 1106)  

أحمد:٢٢٩٢٥حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ حَدَّثَنَا بَكْرُ بْنُ مُضَرَ عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ رَبِيعَةَ عَنِ الْأَعْرَجِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مَالِكِ ابْنِ بُحَيْنَةَ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ كَانَ إِذَا صَلَّى فَرَّجَ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ حَتَّى يَبْدُوَ بَيَاضُ إِبْطَيْهِ  

nasai-kubra:697Qutaybah b. Saʿīd > Bakr > Jaʿfar b. Rabīʿah > al-Aʿraj > ʿAbdullāh b. Mālik b. Buḥaynah

When the Prophet ﷺ prostrated, lie spread out his arms so that the whiteness of his armpits was visible. (Using translation from Muslim 495a)  

الكبرى للنسائي:٦٩٧أَخْبَرَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا بَكْرٌ عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ رَبِيعَةَ عَنِ الْأَعْرَجِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مَالِكِ بْنِ بُحَيْنَةَ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ كَانَ إِذَا صَلَّى فَرَّجَ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ حَتَّى يَبْدُو بَيَاضَ إِبِطَيْهِ