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ذِكْرُ الْخَبَرِ الدَّالِّ عَلَى أَنَّ الْفِعْلَ الْمَجْزُورَ عَنْهُ إِنَّمَا أُرِيدَ بِذَلِكَ رَفْعُ إِحْدَى الرِّجْلَيْنِ عَلَى الْأُخْرَى لَا وَضْعُهَا عَلَيْهَا

ibnhibban:5553Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan b. Qutaybah > Yazīd b. Mawhab > al-Layth b. Saʿd > Abū al-Zubayr > Jābir

Jabir reported that Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade the wrapping of oneself completely leaving no room for the arm and supporting oneself when sitting with a single garment wrapped round one's knees and a person raising one of his feet and placing it on the other while lying on his back. (Using translation from Muslim 2099c)  

ابن حبّان:٥٥٥٣أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ قُتَيْبَةَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ مَوْهَبٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي اللَّيْثُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ جَابِرٍ

«عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَنَّهُ نَهَى عَنِ اشْتِمَالِ الصَّمَّاءِ وَالِاحْتِبَاءِ فِي ثَوْبٍ وَاحِدٍ وَأَنْ يَرْفَعَ الرَّجُلُ إِحْدَى رِجْلَيْهِ عَلَى الْأُخْرَى وَهُوَ مُسْتَلْقٍ عَلَى ظَهْرِهِ»  


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Collected by Muslim, Tirmidhī, Aḥmad, Ḥākim, Ibn Ḥibbān, Nasāʾī's Kubrá
muslim:2099c[Chain 1] Qutaybah > Layth [Chain 2] Ibn Rumḥ > al-Layth > Abū al-Zubayr > Jābir

Jabir reported that Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade the wrapping of oneself completely leaving no room for the arm and supporting oneself when sitting with a single garment wrapped round one's knees and a person raising one of his feet and placing it on the other while lying on his back.  

مسلم:٢٠٩٩cحَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ حَدَّثَنَا لَيْثٌ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ رُمْحٍ أَخْبَرَنَا اللَّيْثُ عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ جَابِرٍ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ نَهَى عَنِ اشْتِمَالِ الصَّمَّاءِ وَالاِحْتِبَاءِ فِي ثَوْبٍ وَاحِدٍ وَأَنْ يَرْفَعَ الرَّجُلُ إِحْدَى رِجْلَيْهِ عَلَى الأُخْرَى وَهُوَ مُسْتَلْقٍ عَلَى ظَهْرِهِ  

tirmidhi:2767Qutaybah > al-Layth > Abū al-Zubayr > Jābir

"The Messenger of Allah ﷺ prohibited Ishtimal As-Samma, Al-Ihtiba in one garment, and that a man raise one of his feet atop the other while he is reclining on his back."  

Abū ʿĪsá said that this Ḥadīth is Ḥasan-Ṣaḥīḥ.
الترمذي:٢٧٦٧حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ حَدَّثَنَا اللَّيْثُ عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ جَابِرٍ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ نَهَى عَنِ اشْتِمَالِ الصَّمَّاءِ وَالاِحْتِبَاءِ فِي ثَوْبٍ وَاحِدٍ وَأَنْ يَرْفَعَ الرَّجُلُ إِحْدَى رِجْلَيْهِ عَلَى الأُخْرَى وَهُوَ مُسْتَلْقٍ عَلَى ظَهْرِهِ  

قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ
ahmad:14770Ḥujayn And Yūnus > Layth > Yūnus > Abū al-Zubayr > Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh

Jabir reported that Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade the wrapping of oneself completely leaving no room for the arm and supporting oneself when sitting with a single garment wrapped round one's knees and a person raising one of his feet and placing it on the other while lying on his back. (Using translation from Muslim 2099c)  

أحمد:١٤٧٧٠حَدَّثَنَا حُجَيْنٌ وَيُونُسُ قَالَا حَدَّثَنَا لَيْثٌ قَالَ يُونُسُ عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ

عَنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ أَنَّهُ نَهَى عَنْ اشْتِمَالِ الصَّمَّاءِ وَالِاحْتِبَاءِ فِي ثَوْبٍ وَاحِدٍ وَأَنْ يَرْفَعَ الرَّجُلُ إِحْدَى رِجْلَيْهِ عَلَى الْأُخْرَى وَهُوَ مُسْتَلْقٍ عَلَى ظَهْرِهِ  

hakim:7702Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Salamah al-ʿAnazī > ʿUthmān b. Saʿīd al-Dārimī > ʿAbdullāh b. Ṣāliḥ > al-Layth b. Saʿd > Abū al-Zubayr > Jābir

Jabir reported that Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade the wrapping of oneself completely leaving no room for the arm and supporting oneself when sitting with a single garment wrapped round one's knees and a person raising one of his feet and placing it on the other while lying on his back. (Using translation from Muslim 2099c)   

الحاكم:٧٧٠٢أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سَلَمَةَ الْعَنَزِيُّ ثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الدَّارِمِيُّ ثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ صَالِحٍ حَدَّثَنِي اللَّيْثُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ جَابِرٍ

عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ «أَنَّهُ نَهَى عَنِ اشْتِمَالِ الصَّمَّاءِ وَأَنْ يَرْفَعَ الرَّجُلُ إِحْدَى رِجْلَيْهِ عَلَى الْأُخْرَى وَهُوَ مُسْتَلْقٍ عَلَى ظَهْرِهِ» سكت عنه الذهبي في التلخيص  

ذِكْرُ خَبَرٍ فِيهِ كَالدَّلِيلِ عَلَى صِحَّةِ مَا تَأَوَّلْنَا الْخَبَرَ الَّذِي تَقَدَّمَ ذِكْرُنَا لَهُ

ibnhibban:5554ʿAbdullāh b. Sulaymān b. al-Ashʿath al-Sijistānī > Hārūn b. Muḥammad b. Bakkār b. Bilāl > Muḥammad b. ʿĪsá b. Sumayʿ > Rawḥ b. al-Qāsim > ʿAmr b. Dīnār > Abū Bakr b. Ḥafṣ b. ʿUmar b. Saʿd b. Abū Waqqāṣ > Abū Hurayrah

[Machine] From the Messenger of Allah ﷺ , it is forbidden for a man to lie down and bend one of his legs over the other.  

ابن حبّان:٥٥٥٤أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ الْأَشْعَثَ السِّجِسْتَانِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا هَارُونُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ بَكَّارِ بْنِ بِلَالٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عِيسَى بْنِ سُمَيْعٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا رَوْحُ بْنُ الْقَاسِمِ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ دِينَارٍ عَنْ أَبِي بَكْرِ بْنِ حَفْصِ بْنِ عُمَرَ بْنِ سَعْدِ بْنِ أَبِي وَقَّاصٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ «أَنَّهُ نَهَى أَنْ يَسْتَلْقِيَ الرَّجُلُ وَيَثْنِيَ إِحْدَى رِجْلَيْهِ عَلَى الْأُخْرَى»  

ذِكْرُ الزَّجْرِ عَنِ اشْتِمَالِ الصَّمَّاءِ وَعَنِ الِاحْتِبَاءِ فِي الثَّوْبِ الْوَاحِدِ

ibnhibban:5426ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad al-Azdī > Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm > ʿAbdah b. Sulaymān > Muḥammad b. ʿAmr > Abū Salamah > Abū Hurayrah

"The Messenger of Allah [SAW] forbade Ishtimal As-Samma' and wrapping oneself in a single garment (that did not cover the private parts)." (Using translation from Nasāʾī 5342)   

ابن حبّان:٥٤٢٦أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْأَزْدِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدَةُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَنَّهُ «نَهَى عَنِ اشْتِمَالِ الصَّمَّاءِ وَأَنْ يَحْتَبِيَ الرَّجُلُ فِي ثَوْبٍ وَاحِدٍ»  

nasai-kubra:9668Qutaybah b. Saʿīd > al-Layth > Abū al-Zubayr > Jābir

Jabir reported that Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade the wrapping of oneself completely leaving no room for the arm and supporting oneself when sitting with a single garment wrapped round one's knees and a person raising one of his feet and placing it on the other while lying on his back. (Using translation from Muslim 2099c)  

الكبرى للنسائي:٩٦٦٨أَخْبَرَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا اللَّيْثُ عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ جَابِرٍ

«أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ نَهَى عَنِ اشْتِمَالِ الصَّمَّاءِ وَالِاحْتِبَاءِ فِي ثَوْبٍ وَاحِدٍ وَأَنْ يَرْفَعَ الرَّجُلُ إِحْدَى رِجْلَيْهِ عَلَى الْأُخْرَى وَهُوَ مُسْتَلْقٍ عَلَى ظَهْرِهِ»