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suyuti:1565a –

AbuThumamah al-Hannat said that Ka'b ibn Ujrah met him while he was going to the mosque; one of the two (companions) met his companion (on his way to the mosque) And he met crossing the fingers of my both hands. He prohibited me to do so, and said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ has said: If any of you performs ablution, and performs his ablution perfectly, and then goes out intending for the mosque, he should not cross the fingers of his hand because he is already in prayer. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 562)   

السيوطي:١٥٦٥a –

"إذَا توضَّأ أحدُكمْ فأحْسن وُضُوءَه ثمَّ خرج عامِدًا إلى المسْجِد، فلا يُشبِّكنَّ أصابِعَه ، فإِنَّه في صَلاةِ" .  

[حم] أحمد [د] أبو داود [ت] الترمذي [طب] الطبرانى في الكبير [ق] البيهقى في السنن عن كعب بن عُجْرة

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Collected by Abū Dāwūd, Tirmidhī, Aḥmad, Dārimī, Ibn Ḥibbān, Ṭabarānī, Bayhaqī, Suyūṭī
abudawud:562 – Muḥammad b. Sulaymān al-Anbārī > ʿAbd al-Malik b. ʿAmr > Dāwud b. Qays > Saʿd b. Isḥāq > Abū Saʿīd al-Maqburī > Abū Thumāmah al-Ḥannāṭ > Kaʿb b. ʿUjrah Adrakah / Yurīd al-Masjid Adrak Aḥaduhumā Ṣāḥibah > Fawajadanī > Mushabbik Biyada Fanahānī > Dhalik

AbuThumamah al-Hannat said that Ka'b ibn Ujrah met him while he was going to the mosque; one of the two (companions) met his companion (on his way to the mosque) And he met crossing the fingers of my both hands. He prohibited me to do so, and said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ has said: If any of you performs ablution, and performs his ablution perfectly, and then goes out intending for the mosque, he should not cross the fingers of his hand because he is already in prayer.  

أبو داود:٥٦٢ – حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ الأَنْبَارِيُّ أَنَّ عَبْدَ الْمَلِكِ بْنَ عَمْرٍو حَدَّثَهُمْ عَنْ دَاوُدَ بْنِ قَيْسٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي سَعْدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْمَقْبُرِيِّ حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو ثُمَامَةَ الْحَنَّاطُ أَنَّ كَعْبَ بْنَ عُجْرَةَ أَدْرَكَهُ وَهُوَ يُرِيدُ الْمَسْجِدَ أَدْرَكَ أَحَدُهُمَا صَاحِبَهُ قَالَ فَوَجَدَنِي وَأَنَا مُشَبِّكٌ بِيَدَىَّ فَنَهَانِي عَنْ ذَلِكَ

وَقَالَ إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ إِذَا تَوَضَّأَ أَحَدُكُمْ فَأَحْسَنَ وُضُوءَهُ ثُمَّ خَرَجَ عَامِدًا إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ فَلاَ يُشَبِّكَنَّ يَدَيْهِ فَإِنَّهُ فِي صَلاَةٍ  

tirmidhi:386 – Qutaybah > al-Layth > Ibn ʿAjlān > Saʿīd al-Maqburī > a man > Kaʿb b. ʿUjrah

Messenger of Allah (S) said: "When one of you performs Wudu and does so well, then he leaves intending to go to the Masjid, then let him not intertwine his fingers, for indeed he is in Salat."  

الترمذي:٣٨٦ – حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ حَدَّثَنَا اللَّيْثُ عَنِ ابْنِ عَجْلاَنَ عَنْ سَعِيدٍ الْمَقْبُرِيِّ عَنْ رَجُلٍ عَنْ كَعْبِ بْنِ عُجْرَةَ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ إِذَا تَوَضَّأَ أَحَدُكُمْ فَأَحْسَنَ وُضُوءَهُ ثُمَّ خَرَجَ عَامِدًا إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ فَلاَ يُشَبِّكَنَّ بَيْنَ أَصَابِعِهِ فَإِنَّهُ فِي صَلاَةٍ  

قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى حَدِيثُ كَعْبِ بْنِ عُجْرَةَ رَوَاهُ غَيْرُ وَاحِدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عَجْلاَنَ مِثْلَ حَدِيثِ اللَّيْثِ وَرَوَى شَرِيكٌ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَجْلاَنَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ نَحْوَ هَذَا الْحَدِيثِ وَحَدِيثُ شَرِيكٍ غَيْرُ مَحْفُوظٍ
ahmad:18103 – Ismāʿīl b. ʿUmar > Dāwud b. Qays > Saʿd b. Isḥāq b. Fulān b. Kaʿb b. ʿUjrah > Abū Thumāmah al-Ḥannāṭ > Kaʿb b. ʿUjrah

AbuThumamah al-Hannat said that Ka'b ibn Ujrah met him while he was going to the mosque; one of the two (companions) met his companion (on his way to the mosque) And he met crossing the fingers of my both hands. He prohibited me to do so, and said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ has said: If any of you performs ablution, and performs his ablution perfectly, and then goes out intending for the mosque, he should not cross the fingers of his hand because he is already in prayer. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 562)   

أحمد:١٨١٠٣ – حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عُمَرَ حَدَّثَنَا دَاوُدُ بْنُ قَيْسٍ عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ فُلَانِ بْنِ كَعْبِ بْنِ عُجْرَةَ أَنَّ أَبَا ثُمَامَةَ الْحَنَّاطَ حَدَّثَهُ أَنَّ كَعْبَ بْنَ عُجْرَةَ حَدَّثَهُ

قَالَ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ إِذَا تَوَضَّأَ أَحَدُكُمْ فَأَحْسَنَ وُضُوءَهُ ثُمَّ خَرَجَ عَامِدًا إِلَى الصَّلَاةِ فَلَا يُشَبِّكْ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ فَإِنَّهُ فِي الصَّلَاةِ  

ahmad:18115 – Qurrān b. Tammām Abū Tammām al-Asadī > Muḥammad b. ʿAjlān > Saʿīd b. Abū Saʿīd > Kaʿb b. ʿUjrah

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "When you perform ablution and perfect your ablution, then you go purposely to the mosque, do not intertwine your fingers together." He said, "I see people doing that." He said, "Verily, you are in prayer."  

أحمد:١٨١١٥ – حَدَّثَنَا قُرَّانُ بْنُ تَمَّامٍ أَبُو تَمَّامٍ الْأَسَدِيُّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَجْلَانَ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ عَنْ كَعْبِ بْنِ عُجْرَةَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ إِذَا تَوَضَّأْتَ فَأَحْسَنْتَ وُضُوءَكَ ثُمَّ خَرَجْتَ عَامِدًا إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ فَلَا تُشَبِّكَنَّ بَيْنَ أَصَابِعِكَ قَالَ قُرَّانُ أُرَاهُ قَالَ فَإِنَّكَ فِي صَلَاةٍ  

darimi:1444 – ʿUthmān b. ʿUmar > Dāwud b. Qays al-Farrāʾ > Saʿd b. Isḥāq > Abū Thumāmah al-Ḥannāṭ > Adrakanī Kaʿb b. ʿUjrah Bi-al-Balāṭ > Mushabbik Bayn Aṣābiʿī

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "When one of you performs ablution and then goes intentionally to pray, he should not intertwine his fingers."  

الدارمي:١٤٤٤ – حَدَّثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ عُمَرَ أَنْبَأَنَا دَاوُدُ بْنُ قَيْسٍ الْفَرَّاءُ عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ أَبِي ثُمَامَةَ الْحَنَّاطِ قَالَ أَدْرَكَنِي كَعْبُ بْنُ عُجْرَةَ بِالْبَلَاطِ وَأَنَا مُشَبِّكٌ بَيْنَ أَصَابِعِي فَقَالَ

إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ «إِذَا تَوَضَّأَ أَحَدُكُمْ ثُمَّ خَرَجَ عَامِدًا إِلَى الصَّلَاةِ فَلَا يُشَبِّكُ بَيْنَ أَصَابِعِهِ»  

ذِكْرُ كَتْبَةِ اللَّهِ جَلَّ وَعَلَا الصَّلَاةَ لِلْخَارِجِ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ يُرِيدُ أَدَاءَ فَرْضِهِ مَا دَامَ يَمْشِي فِي طَرِيقِهِ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ

ibnhibban:2036 – Abū Yaʿlá > Abū Khaythamah > Abū ʿĀmir > Dāwud b. Qays > Saʿd b. Isḥāq > Abū Thumāmah al-Ḥannāṭ > Kaʿb b. ʿUjrah Adrakah / Yurīd al-Masjid > Fawajadanī > Mushabbik Yaday Iḥdāhumā Bi-al-Ukhrá > Fafataq Yaday Wanahānī > Dhalik

AbuThumamah al-Hannat said that Ka'b ibn Ujrah met him while he was going to the mosque; one of the two (companions) met his companion (on his way to the mosque) And he met crossing the fingers of my both hands. He prohibited me to do so, and said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ has said: If any of you performs ablution, and performs his ablution perfectly, and then goes out intending for the mosque, he should not cross the fingers of his hand because he is already in prayer. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 562)   

ابن حبّان:٢٠٣٦ – أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو يَعْلَى قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو خَيْثَمَةَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَامِرٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا دَاوُدُ بْنُ قَيْسٍ عَنْ سَعْدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو ثُمَامَةَ الْحَنَّاطُ أَنَّ كَعْبَ بْنَ عُجْرَةَ أَدْرَكَهُ وَهُوَ يُرِيدُ الْمَسْجِدَ قَالَ

فَوَجَدَنِي وَأَنَا مُشَبِّكٌ يَدَيَّ إِحْدَاهُمَا بِالْأُخْرَى قَالَ فَفَتَقَ يَدَيَّ وَنَهَانِي عَنْ ذَلِكَ وَقَالَ إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ «إِذَا تَوَضَّأَ أَحَدُكُمْ فَأَحْسَنَ وُضُوءَهُ ثُمَّ خَرَجَ عَامِدًا إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ فَلَا يُشَبِّكَنَّ يَدَهُ فَإِنَّهُ فِي صَلَاةٍ»  

tabarani:16443 – al-Ḥasan b. Sahl al-Mujawwiz al-Baṣrī > ʿUthmān b. al-Haytham al-Muʾadhhin > Dāwud b. Qays al-Farrāʾ > Saʿd b. Isḥāq b. Kaʿb b. ʿUjrah > Bī Thumāmah al-Ḥannāṭ > Laqiyanī Kaʿb b. ʿUjrah > Mutawajjih > al-Masjid Mushabbik Bayn Aṣābiʿī > Innī

[Machine] I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ saying, "When one of you performs ablution and then goes to the mosque, he should not interlace his fingers, for he is in prayer."  

الطبراني:١٦٤٤٣ – حَدَّثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ سَهْلٍ الْمُجَوِّزُ الْبَصْرِيُّ ثنا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ الْهَيْثَمَ الْمُؤَذِّنُ ثنا دَاوُدُ بْنُ قَيْسٍ الْفَرَّاءُ ثنا سَعْدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ كَعْبِ بْنِ عُجْرَةَ عَنْ أبِي ثُمَامَةَ الْحَنَّاطِ قَالَ لَقِيَنِي كَعْبُ بْنُ عُجْرَةَ وَأَنَا مُتَوَجِّهٌ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ مُشَبِّكٌ بَيْنَ أَصَابِعِي فَقَالَ إِنِّي

سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ «إِذَا تَوَضَّأَ أَحَدُكُمْ ثُمَّ أَتَى الْمَسْجِدَ فَلَا يُشَبِّكْ بَيْنَ أَصَابِعِهِ فَإِنَّهُ فِي صَلَاةٍ»  

tabarani:16445 – [Chain 1] ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. Saʿīd b. Abū Maryam > Muḥammad b. Yūsuf al-Firyābī > Sufyān [Chain 2] Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm al-Dabarī > ʿAbd al-Razzāq > al-Thawrī > Ibn ʿAjlān > Saʿīd b. Abū Saʿīd > Kaʿb b. ʿUjrah

[Machine] The Prophet ﷺ said, "When you perform ablution and then go intentionally to the mosque, do not interlock your fingers, for you are in prayer."  

الطبراني:١٦٤٤٥ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سَعِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي مَرْيَمَ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يُوسُفَ الْفِرْيَابِيُّ ثنا سُفْيَانُ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الدَّبَرِيُّ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّزَّاقِ عَنِ الثَّوْرِيِّ عَنِ ابْنِ عَجْلَانَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي سَعِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ عَنْ كَعْبِ بْنِ عُجْرَة قَالَ

قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ «إِذَا تَوَضَّأْتَ ثُمَّ خَرَجْتَ عَامِدًا إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ فَلَا تُشَبِّكَنَّ بَيْنَ أَصَابِعِكَ فَإِنَّكَ فِي صَلَاةٍ»  

tabarani:16447 – Yūsuf al-Qāḍī > Muḥammad b. Abū Bakr al-Muqaddamī > Khālid b. al-Ḥārith > Muḥammad b. ʿAjlān > Saʿīd al-Maqburī > Kaʿb b. ʿUjrah

[Machine] On the authority of the Prophet ﷺ who said, "When you perform ablution, and you perfect the ablution, then you deliberately go to the mosque, do not interlock your fingers together."  

الطبراني:١٦٤٤٧ – حَدَّثَنَا يُوسُفُ الْقَاضِي ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الْمُقَدَّمِيُّ ثنا خَالِدُ بْنُ الْحَارِثِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَجْلَانَ عَنْ سَعِيدٍ الْمَقْبُرِيِّ عَنْ كَعْبِ بْنِ عُجْرَة

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ «إِذَا تَوَضَّأْتَ فَأَحْسَنْتَ الْوُضُوءَ ثُمَّ خَرَجْتَ عَامِدًا إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ فَلَا تُشَبِّكَنَّ بَيْنَ أَصَابِعِكَ»  

bayhaqi:5881 – Abū Ḥāmid Aḥmad b. al-Walīd b. Aḥmad al-Zawzanī > Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh al-Shāfiʿī > ʿAbdullāh b. Rawḥ al-Madāyinī > ʿUthmān b. ʿUmar > Dāwud b. Qays > Saʿd b. Isḥāq > Abū Thumāmah al-Ḥannāṭ > Adrakanī Kaʿb b. ʿUjrah > Bi-al-Balāṭ Mutawajjih > al-Masjid Mushabbik Bayn Aṣābiʿī

AbuThumamah al-Hannat said that Ka'b ibn Ujrah met him while he was going to the mosque; one of the two (companions) met his companion (on his way to the mosque) And he met crossing the fingers of my both hands. He prohibited me to do so, and said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ has said: If any of you performs ablution, and performs his ablution perfectly, and then goes out intending for the mosque, he should not cross the fingers of his hand because he is already in prayer. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 562)   

البيهقي:٥٨٨١ – أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو حَامِدٍ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ بْنِ أَحْمَدَ الْزَوْزَنِيُّ أنبأ أَبُو بَكْرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ الشَّافِعِيُّ ثنا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ رَوْحٍ الْمَدَايِنِيُّ ثنا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ عُمَرَ ثنا دَاوُدُ بْنُ قَيْسٍ عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ أَبِي ثُمَامَةَ الْحَنَّاطِ قَالَ أَدْرَكَنِي كَعْبُ بْنُ عُجْرَةَ وَأَنَا بِالْبَلَاطِ مُتَوَجِّهًا إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ مُشَبِّكًا بَيْنَ أَصَابِعِي فَقَالَ

إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ إِذَا تَوَضَّأَ أَحَدُكُمْ فَأَحْسَنَ الْوُضُوءَ ثُمَّ خَرَجَ عَامِدًا إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ فَلَا يُشَبِّكَنَّ بَيْنَ أَصَابِعِهِ  

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السيوطي:٢٧٤١٨a –

"يَا كَعْبُ: إِذَا تَوَضَّأتَ فَأحْسَنْتَ الْوُضُوءَ، ثُمَّ خَرَجْتَ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ فَلَا تُشَبِّكَنَّ بَيْنَ أَصَابِعِكِ؛ فَإِنَّكَ فِى صَلَاةٍ".  

[ق] البيهقى في السنن عن كعب بن عجرة