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muslim:396cYaḥyá b. Yaḥyá > Yazīd / Ibn Zurayʿ > Ḥabīb al-Muʿallim > ʿAṭāʾ

Recitation (of Surat al-Fatiha) in every (rak'ah) of prayer in essential. (The recitation) that we listened to from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ we made you listen to it. And that which he recited inwardly to us, we recited it inwardly for you. And he who recites Umm al-Qur'an, it is enough for him (to complete the prayer), and he who adds to it (recites some other verses of the Holy Qur'an along with Surat al-Fatiha), it is preferable for him.  

مسلم:٣٩٦cحَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ يَحْيَى أَخْبَرَنَا يَزِيدُ يَعْنِي ابْنَ زُرَيْعٍ عَنْ حَبِيبٍ الْمُعَلِّمِ عَنْ عَطَاءٍ قَالَ قَالَ

أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ فِي كُلِّ صَلاَةٍ قِرَاءَةٌ فَمَا أَسْمَعَنَا النَّبِيُّ ﷺ أَسْمَعْنَاكُمْ وَمَا أَخْفَى مِنَّا أَخْفَيْنَاهُ مِنْكُمْ وَمَنْ قَرَأَ بِأُمِّ الْكِتَابِ فَقَدْ أَجْزَأَتْ عَنْهُ وَمَنْ زَادَ فَهُوَ أَفْضَلُ  


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Collected by Bukhārī, Muslim, Nasāʾī, Aḥmad, Ibn Ḥibbān, Bayhaqī
bukhari:772Musaddad > Ismāʿīl b. Ibrāhīm > Ibn Jurayj > ʿAṭāʾ > Abū Hurayrah

The Qur'an is recited in every prayer and in those prayers in which Messenger of Allah ﷺ recited aloud for us, we recite aloud in the same prayers for you; and the prayers in which the Prophet ﷺ recited quietly, we recite quietly. If you recite "Al-Fatiha" only it is sufficient but if you recite something else in addition, it is better.  

البخاري:٧٧٢حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا ابْنُ جُرَيْجٍ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي عَطَاءٌ

أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ ؓ يَقُولُ فِي كُلِّ صَلاَةٍ يُقْرَأُ فَمَا أَسْمَعَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَسْمَعْنَاكُمْ وَمَا أَخْفَى عَنَّا أَخْفَيْنَا عَنْكُمْ وَإِنْ لَمْ تَزِدْ عَلَى أُمِّ الْقُرْآنِ أَجْزَأَتْ وَإِنْ زِدْتَ فَهُوَ خَيْرٌ  

muslim:396bʿAmr al-Nāqid And Zuhayr b. Ḥarb Wa-al-Lafẓ Liʿamrw > Ismāʿīl b. Ibrāhīm > Ibn Jurayj > ʿAṭāʾ

If I add nothing to the (recitation) of the Umm al Qur'an (Surat al-Fatiha), would it make the prayer incomplete? He (AbuHuraira) said: If you add to that (if you recite some of verses of the Qur'an along with Surat at-Fatiha) that is better for you. But if you are contented with it (Surat al-Fatiha) only, it is sufficient for you.  

مسلم:٣٩٦bحَدَّثَنَا عَمْرٌو النَّاقِدُ وَزُهَيْرُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ وَاللَّفْظُ لِعَمْرٍو قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ أَخْبَرَنَا ابْنُ جُرَيْجٍ عَنْ عَطَاءٍ قَالَ قَالَ

أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ فِي كُلِّ الصَّلاَةِ يَقْرَأُ فَمَا أَسْمَعَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَسْمَعْنَاكُمْ وَمَا أَخْفَى مِنَّا أَخْفَيْنَا مِنْكُمْ فَقَالَ لَهُ رَجُلٌ إِنْ لَمْ أَزِدْ عَلَى أُمِّ الْقُرْآنِ فَقَالَ إِنْ زِدْتَ عَلَيْهَا فَهُوَ خَيْرٌ وَإِنِ انْتَهَيْتَ إِلَيْهَا أَجْزَأَتْ عَنْكَ  

nasai:969Muḥammad b. Qudāmah > Jarīr > Raqabah > ʿAṭāʾ > Abū Hurayrah Kul Ṣalāh Yuqraʾ Fīhā Famā

"Abu Hurairah said: "In should be recitation in every prayer. What the Messenger of Allah ﷺ made us hear (by reciting out loud) we make you hear, and what he hid from us (by reciting silently) we hide from you.'"  

النسائي:٩٦٩أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ قُدَامَةَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا جَرِيرٌ عَنْ رَقَبَةَ عَنْ عَطَاءٍ قَالَ قَالَ

أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ كُلُّ صَلاَةٍ يُقْرَأُ فِيهَا فَمَا أَسْمَعَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَسْمَعْنَاكُمْ وَمَا أَخْفَاهَا أَخْفَيْنَا مِنْكُمْ  

ahmad:7503ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Ḥaddād Abū ʿUbaydah > Ḥabīb b. al-Shahīd > ʿAṭāʾ > Abū Hurayrah Kul Ṣalāh Yuqraʾ Fīhā Famā

In every prayer there is a recitation. We make you listen what the Messenger of Allah ﷺ made us listen, and we keep hidden from you what he kept hidden from us. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 797)   

أحمد:٧٥٠٣حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَاحِدِ الْحَدَّادُ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ حَدَّثَنَا حَبِيبُ بْنُ الشَّهِيدِ عَنْ عَطَاءٍ قَالَ قَالَ

أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ كُلُّ صَلَاةٍ يُقْرَأُ فِيهَا فَمَا أَسْمَعَنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ أَسْمَعْنَاكُمْ وَمَا أَخْفَى عَلَيْنَا أَخْفَيْنَا عَلَيْكُمْ  

ذِكْرُ الْأَخْبَارِ الْمُفَسِّرَةِ لِقَوْلِهِ جَلَّ وَعَلَا: {فَاقْرَءُوا مَا تَيَسَّرَ مِنْهُ}

ibnhibban:1781Khālid b. al-Naḍr b. ʿAmr al-Qurashī Bi-al-Baṣrah Abū Yazīd al-ʿAdl > ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Ghiyāth > Abū ʿAwānah > Raqabah b. Masqalah > ʿAṭāʾ > Abū Hurayrah > Kul al-Ṣalāh Yuqraʾ Fīhā Famā

"Abu Hurairah said: "In should be recitation in every prayer. What the Messenger of Allah ﷺ made us hear (by reciting out loud) we make you hear, and what he hid from us (by reciting silently) we hide from you.'" (Using translation from Nasāʾī 969)   

ابن حبّان:١٧٨١أَخْبَرَنَا خَالِدُ بْنُ النَّضْرِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو الْقُرَشِيُّ بِالْبَصْرَةِ أَبُو يَزِيدَ الْعَدْلُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَاحِدِ بْنُ غِيَاثٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَوَانَةَ عَنْ رَقَبَةَ بْنِ مَسْقَلَةَ عَنْ عَطَاءٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ

«كُلُّ الصَّلَاةِ يُقْرَأُ فِيهَا فَمَا أَسْمَعَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَسْمَعْنَاكُمْ وَمَا أَخْفَى مِنَّا أَخْفَيْنَا مِنْكُمْ»  

ذِكْرُ خَبَرٍ فِيهِ كَالدَّلِيلِ عَلَى إِيجَابِ الْقِرَاءَةِ الَّتِي وَصَفْنَاهَا عَلَى مَنْ ذَكَرْنَا نَعْتَهُمْ قَبْلُ

ibnhibban:1853Muḥammad b. Isḥāq b. Khuzaymah > ʿAbd al-Jabbār b. al-ʿAlāʾ > Sufyān > Ibn Jurayj > ʿAṭāʾ > Abū Hurayrah

[Machine] I heard Abu Hurairah saying, "In every prayer, there is recitation." So we never heard the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) reciting so loudly that you could hear him, nor did he recite so softly that you could not hear him.  

ابن حبّان:١٨٥٣أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ خُزَيْمَةَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْجَبَّارِ بْنُ الْعَلَاءِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنِ ابْنِ جُرَيْجٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ عَطَاءً يَقُولُ

سَمِعْتُ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ يَقُولُ «فِي كُلِّ صَلَاةٍ قِرَاءَةٌ» فَمَا أَسْمَعَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَسْمَعْنَاكُمْ وَمَا أَخْفَى عَلَيْنَا أَخْفَيْنَا عَنْكُمْ  

bayhaqi:2370Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥāfiẓ > Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb > Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad And Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Salām > Yaḥyá b. Yaḥyá > Yazīd b. Zurayʿ > Ḥabīb al-Muʿallim > ʿAṭāʾ from my father

Recitation (of Surat al-Fatiha) in every (rak'ah) of prayer in essential. (The recitation) that we listened to from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ we made you listen to it. And that which he recited inwardly to us, we recited it inwardly for you. And he who recites Umm al-Qur'an, it is enough for him (to complete the prayer), and he who adds to it (recites some other verses of the Holy Qur'an along with Surat al-Fatiha), it is preferable for him. (Using translation from Muslim 396c)   

البيهقي:٢٣٧٠أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ ثنا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ السَّلَامِ قَالَا ثنا يَحْيَى بْنُ يَحْيَى أنبأ يَزِيدُ بْنُ زُرَيْعٍ عَنْ حَبِيبٍ الْمُعَلِّمِ عَنْ عَطَاءٍ قَالَ

قَالَ أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ ؓ فِي كُلِّ صَلَاةٍ قِرَاءَةٌ فَمَا أَسْمَعَنَا النَّبِيُّ ﷺ أَسْمَعْنَاكُمْ وَمَا أُخْفَى مِنَّا أَخْفَيْنَاهُ مِنْكُمْ فَقَدْ أَجْزَأَتْ عَنْهُ وَمَنْ زَادَ فَهُوَ أَفْضَلُ  

رَوَاهُ مُسْلِمٌ فِي الصَّحِيحِ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ يَحْيَى