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nasai-kubra:980Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. al-Ḥasan b. Shaqīq from my father > Abū Ḥamzah > Manṣūr b. Zādhān > Anas b. Mālik

"The Messenger of Allah ﷺ led us in prayer, and we did not hear him recite: In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. And Abu Bakr and Umar led us in prayer and we did not hear it from them either." (Using translation from Nasāʾī 906)  

الكبرى للنسائي:٩٨٠أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ شَقِيقٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبِي يَقُولُ أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو حَمْزَةَ عَنْ مَنْصُورِ بْنِ زَاذَانَ عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ

«صَلَّى بِنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ فَلَمْ يُسْمِعْنَا قِرَاءَةَ بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ وَصَلَّى بِنَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَعُمَرُ فَلَمْ نَسْمَعْهَا مِنْهُمَا»  


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muslim:399aMuḥammad b. al-Muthanná And Ibn Bashhār > Ghundar > Ibn al-Muthanná > Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar > Shuʿbah > Qatādah > Anas

I observed prayer along with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and with Abu Bakr, Umar and Uthman (may Allah be pleased with all of them), but I never heard any one of them reciting Bismillah-ir-Rahman-ir-Rahim loudly.  

مسلم:٣٩٩aحَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى وَابْنُ بَشَّارٍ كِلاَهُمَا عَنْ غُنْدَرٍ قَالَ ابْنُ الْمُثَنَّى حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ قَتَادَةَ يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ أَنَسٍ قَالَ

صَلَّيْتُ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ وَأَبِي بَكْرٍ وَعُمَرَ وَعُثْمَانَ فَلَمْ أَسْمَعْ أَحَدًا مِنْهُمْ يَقْرَأُ {بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ}  

nasai:906Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. al-Ḥasan b. Shaqīq from my father > Abū Ḥamzah > Manṣūr b. Zādhān > Anas b. Mālik

"The Messenger of Allah ﷺ led us in prayer, and we did not hear him recite: In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. And Abu Bakr and Umar led us in prayer and we did not hear it from them either."  

النسائي:٩٠٦أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ شَقِيقٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبِي يَقُولُ أَنْبَأَنَا أَبُو حَمْزَةَ عَنْ مَنْصُورِ بْنِ زَاذَانَ عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ

صَلَّى بِنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَلَمْ يُسْمِعْنَا قِرَاءَةَ { بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ } وَصَلَّى بِنَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَعُمَرُ فَلَمْ نَسْمَعْهَا مِنْهُمَا