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Qurʾān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn al-Adab al-Mufrad al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Bukhārī Muslim Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Nasāʾī Ibn Mājah Dārimī Aḥmad Mālik Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Bazzār Ibn Khuzaymah Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
tabarani:18295 – ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz > Abū Nuʿaym > Mūsá b. ʿUmayr al-ʿAnbarī > ʿAlqamah b. Wāʾil b. Ḥujr > Abīh Wāʾil b. Ḥujr

[AI] "That the Prophet, ﷺ , used to grasp his left hand with his right hand when standing in prayer." He said, "I saw 'Alqamah' doing this."

الطبراني:١٨٢٩٥ – حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ ثنا أَبُو نُعَيْمٍ نا مُوسَى بْنُ عُمَيْرٍ الْعَنْبَرِيُّ عَنْ عَلْقَمَةَ بْنِ وَائِلِ بْنِ حُجْرٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ وَائِلِ بْنِ حُجْرٍ

«أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ كَانَ إِذَا قَامَ فِي الصَّلَاةِ قَبَضَ عَلَى شِمَالِهِ بِيَمِينِهِ» قَالَ وَرَأَيْتُ عَلْقَمَةَ يَفْعَلُهُ

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nasai:887 – Sūwayd b. Naṣr > ʿAbdullāh > Mūsá b. ʿUmayr al-ʿAnbarī And Qays b. Sulaym al-ʿAnbarī > ʿAlqamah b. Wāʾil from his father

"Alqamah bin Wa'il told us that his father said: "I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, when he was standing in prayer, holding his left hand with his right.'"

النسائي:٨٨٧ – أَخْبَرَنَا سُوَيْدُ بْنُ نَصْرٍ قَالَ أَنْبَأَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ عَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ عُمَيْرٍ الْعَنْبَرِيِّ وَقَيْسِ بْنِ سُلَيْمٍ الْعَنْبَرِيِّ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا عَلْقَمَةُ بْنُ وَائِلٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ إِذَا كَانَ قَائِمًا فِي الصَّلاَةِ قَبَضَ بِيَمِينِهِ عَلَى شِمَالِهِ

Placing the right hand over the left in prayer

ahmad:18846 – Wakīʿ > Mūsā b. ʿUmayr al-ʿAnbarī > ʿAlqamah b. Wāʾil al-Ḥaḍramī > Wāʾil

[AI] I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ placing his right hand over his left in prayer.

أحمد:١٨٨٤٦ – حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ حَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ عُمَيْرٍ الْعَنْبَرِيُّ عَنْ عَلْقَمَةَ بْنِ وَائِلٍ الْحَضْرَمِيِّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ وَاضِعًا يَمِينَهُ عَلَى شِمَالِهِ فِي الصَّلَاةِ.

tabarani:3400 – ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Miqlāṣ from my father > Ibn Wahb > Muʿāwiyah b. Ṣāliḥ > Yūnus b. Sayf > Abū Rāshid al-Ḥubrānī > al-Ḥārith b. Ghuṭayf

[AI] I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ placing his right hand over his left hand in prayer.

الطبراني:٣٤٠٠ – حَدَّثَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ بْنِ مِقْلَاصٍ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي ثنا ابْنُ وَهْبٍ عَنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ صَالِحٍ عَنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ سَيْفٍ عَنْ أَبِي رَاشِدٍ الْحُبْرَانِيِّ عَنِ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ غُطَيْفٍ قَالَ

«رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ وَاضِعًا يَمِينَهُ عَلَى شِمَالِهِ فِي الصَّلَاةِ»

tabarani:18385 – Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥaḍramī And al-Ḥusayn b. Isḥāq > Aḥmad b. ʿUthmān b. Ḥakīm al-Awdī > Shurayḥ b. Maslamah > Ibrāhīm b. Yūsuf from his father > Abū Isḥāq > ʿĀṣim b. Kulayb from his father > Wāʾil al-Qīl

[AI] "I saw the Prophet ﷺ strike with his right hand on his left during prayer."

الطبراني:١٨٣٨٥ – حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَضْرَمِيُّ وَالْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ قَالَا ثنا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ حَكِيمٍ الْأَوْدِيُّ قَالَ ثنا شُرَيْحُ بْنُ مَسْلَمَةَ ثنا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ يُوسُفَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ كُلَيْبٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ وَائِلٍ الْقِيلِ قَالَ

«رَأَيْتُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ ضَرَبَ بِيَمِينِهِ عَلَى شِمَالِهِ فِي الصَّلَاةِ»

nasai-kubra:963 – Sūwayd b. Naṣr al-Marwazī > ʿAbdullāh b. al-Mubārak > Mūsá b. ʿUmayr al-ʿAnbarī And Qays > ʿAlqamah b. Wāʾil from his father

"Alqamah bin Wa'il told us that his father said: "I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, when he was standing in prayer, holding his left hand with his right.'" (Using translation from Nasāʾī 887)

الكبرى للنسائي:٩٦٣ – أَخْبَرَنَا سُوَيْدُ بْنُ نَصْرٍ الْمَرْوَزِيِّ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ عَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ عُمَيْرٍ الْعَنْبَرِيِّ وَقَيْسٍ قَالَا حَدَّثَنَا عَلْقَمَةُ بْنُ وَائِلٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

«رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ إِذَا كَانَ قَائِمًا فِي الصَّلَاةِ قَبَضَ بِيَمِينِهِ عَلَى شِمَالِهِ»

bayhaqi:2324 – Abū al-Ḥusayn b. al-Faḍl al-Qaṭṭān> ʿAbdullāh b. Jaʿfar > Yaʿqūb b. Sufyān > Abū Nuʿaym > Mūsá b. ʿUmayr al-ʿAnbarī > ʿAlqamah b. Wāʾil from his father

[AI] That the Prophet ﷺ used to, when he stood up to pray, hold onto his left hand with his right hand, and I saw him doing the alqamah. Ya'qub and Musa Ibn Umair said that he (the Prophet) was a trustworthy Kufan.

البيهقي:٢٣٢٤ – وَأَخْبَرَنَاهُ أَبُو الْحُسَيْنِ بْنُ الْفَضْلِ الْقَطَّانُ بِبَغْدَادَ أنبأ عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ ثنا يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَ ثنا أَبُو نُعَيْمٍ ثنا مُوسَى بْنُ عُمَيْرٍ الْعَنْبَرِيُّ حَدَّثَنِي عَلْقَمَةُ بْنُ وَائِلٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ كَانَ إِذَا قَامَ فِي الصَّلَاةِ قَبَضَ عَلَى شِمَالِهِ بِيَمِينِهِ وَرَأَيْتُ عَلْقَمَةَ يَفْعَلُهُ قَالَ يَعْقُوبُ وَمُوسَى بْنُ عُمَيْرٍ كُوفِيٌّ ثِقَةٌ