2. Ṣalāh (Prayer)

٢۔ كِتَابُ الصَّلَاةِ

2.396 [Machine] The beginning with the opening of the book before the chapter.

٢۔٣٩٦ الْبِدَايَةُ بِفَاتِحَةِ الْكِتَابِ قَبْلَ السُّورَةِ

nasai-kubra:977Qutaybah b. Saʿīd > Abū ʿAwānah > Qatādah > Anas

The Prophet ﷺ, Abu Bakr, and Umar, may Allah be pleased with them both, would start their recitation with: "All the praise and thanks be to Allah, the Lord of all that exists. (Using translation from Nasāʾī 902)  

الكبرى للنسائي:٩٧٧أَخْبَرَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَوَانَةَ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ أَنَسٍ قَالَ

كَانَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ وَعُمَرُ يَسْتَفْتِحُونَ الْقِرَاءَةَ بِالْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ  

nasai-kubra:978ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman > Sufyān > Ayyūb > Qatādah > Anas

"I prayed with the Prophet ﷺ and with Abu Bakr and Umar, may Allah be pleased with them both, and they started with "All the praise and thanks be to Allah, the Lord of all that exists." (Using translation from Nasāʾī 903)   

الكبرى للنسائي:٩٧٨أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ أَيُّوبَ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ أَنَسٍ قَالَ

«صَلَّيْتُ مَعَ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ وَمَعَ أَبِي بَكْرٍ وَمَعَ عُمَرَ فَافْتَتَحُوا بِالْحَمْدِ»