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ibnmajah:990 – Ismāʿīl b. Abū Karīmah al-Ḥarrānī > Muḥammad b. Salamah > Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUlāthah > Hishām b. Ḥassān > al-Ḥasan > ʿUthmān b. Abū al-ʿĀṣ

“The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: ‘I hear an infant crying so I make the prayer short.’”  

ابن ماجة:٩٩٠ – حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ أَبِي كَرِيمَةَ الْحَرَّانِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُلاَثَةَ عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ حَسَّانٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ أَبِي الْعَاصِ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ إِنِّي لأَسْمَعُ بُكَاءَ الصَّبِيِّ فَأَتَجَوَّزُ فِي الصَّلاَةِ  

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nasai-kubra:901 – Sūwayd b. Naṣr > ʿAbdullāh > al-Awzāʿī > Yaḥyá b. Abū Kathīr > ʿAbdullāh b. Abū Qatādah from his father

"I stand in prayer, then I hear a child crying, so I make my prayer brief, because I do not want to cause hardship for his mother." (Using translation from Nasāʾī 825)  

الكبرى للنسائي:٩٠١ – أَخْبَرَنَا سُوَيْدُ بْنُ نَصْرٍ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ عَنِ الْأَوْزَاعِيِّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي يَحْيَى بْنُ أَبِي كَثِيرٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ أَبِي قَتَادَةَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ «إِنِّي لَأَقُومُ فِي الصَّلَاةِ فَأَسْمَعُ بُكَاءَ الصَّبِيِّ فَأَتَجَوَّزُ فِي صَلَاتِي كَرَاهِيَةَ أَنْ أَشُقَّ عَلَى أُمِّهِ»