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malik:8-28Mālik > Dāwud b. al-Ḥuṣayn > Ibn Yarbūʿ al-Makhzūmī > Zayd b. Thābit

Yahya related to me from Malik from Da'ud ibn al-Husayn that Ibn Yarbu al-Makhzumi said, "I heard Zayd ibn Thabit say, 'The middle prayer is the prayer of dhuhr.' "  

مالك:٨-٢٨وَحَدَّثَنِي عَنْ مَالِكٍ عَنْ دَاوُدَ بْنِ الْحُصَيْنِ عَنِ ابْنِ يَرْبُوعٍ الْمَخْزُومِيِّ أَنَّهُ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ زَيْدَ بْنَ ثَابِتٍ

يَقُولُ الصَّلاَةُ الْوُسْطَى صَلاَةُ الظُّهْرِ  


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ahmad:20155Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd > Saʿīd > Qatādah > al-Ḥasan > Samurah

"The Prophet of Allah ﷺ said: 'The middle Salat is Salat Al-'Asr.'" (Using translation from Tirmidhī 2983)   

أحمد:٢٠١٥٥حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ سَمُرَةَ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ الصَّلَاةُ الْوُسْطَى صَلَاةُ الْعَصْرِ  

bayhaqi:2157Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥāfiẓ And ʾAbū Saʿīd b. Abū ʿAmr > Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb > Ibrāhīm b. Marzūq > ʿAffān > Hammām > Qatādah > Saʿīd b. al-Musayyib > Ibn ʿUmar > Zayd b. Thābit

[Machine] "He said, 'The middle prayer is the prayer of Dhuhr.'"  

البيهقي:٢١٥٧وَأَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ وَأَبُو سَعِيدِ بْنُ أَبِي عَمْرٍو قَالَا ثنا أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ ثنا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ مَرْزُوقٍ ثنا عَفَّانُ عَنْ هَمَّامٍ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيِّبِ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ ثَابِتٍ

أَنَّهُ قَالَ الصَّلَاةُ الْوُسْطَى صَلَاةُ الظُّهْرِ