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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:18343 – Muḥammad b. ʿAmr b. Khālid al-Ḥarrānī from my father > Zuhayr > Abū Isḥāq > ʿAbd al-Jabbār b. Wāʾil from his father

[Machine] I saw the Prophet ﷺ placing his right hand over his left hand during prayer.

الطبراني:١٨٣٤٣ – حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَمْرِو بْنِ خَالِدٍ الْحَرَّانِيُّ ثنا أَبِي ثنا زُهَيْرٌ ثنا أَبُو إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِ بْنِ وَائِلٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

«رَأَيْتُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ وَضَعَ يَدَهُ الْيُمْنَى فِي الصَّلَاةِ عَلَى الْيُسْرَى»

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nasai:1271 – Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmmār al-Mawṣilī > al-Muʿāfá > ʿIṣām b. Qudāmah > Mālik / Ibn Numayr al-Khuzāʿī from his father

"I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ putting his right hand on his right thigh when praying and pointing with his finger."

النسائي:١٢٧١ – أَخْبَرَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمَّارٍ الْمَوْصِلِيُّ عَنِ الْمُعَافَى عَنْ عِصَامِ بْنِ قُدَامَةَ عَنْ مَالِكٍ وَهُوَ ابْنُ نُمَيْرٍ الْخُزَاعِيِّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ وَاضِعًا يَدَهُ الْيُمْنَى عَلَى فَخِذِهِ الْيُمْنَى فِي الصَّلاَةِ وَيُشِيرُ بِأُصْبُعِهِ

ibnmajah:911 – Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah > Wakīʿ > ʿIṣām b. Qudāmah > Mālik b. Numayr al-Khuzāʿī from his father

“I saw the Prophet ﷺ putting his right hand on his right thigh during prayer, and pointing with his finger.”

ابن ماجة:٩١١ – حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ عَنْ عِصَامِ بْنِ قُدَامَةَ عَنْ مَالِكِ بْنِ نُمَيْرٍ الْخُزَاعِيِّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

رَأَيْتُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ وَاضِعًا يَدَهُ الْيُمْنَى عَلَى فَخِذِهِ الْيُمْنَى فِي الصَّلاَةِ وَيُشِيرُ بَإِصْبَعِهِ

Placing the right hand over the left in prayer

ahmad:18875 – Hasan b. Musa > Zuhayr > Abu Ishaq > Abd al-Jabbar b. Wail > Wail

[AI] I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ placing his right hand over his left in prayer, and he mentioned something similar to the hadith of Ibn Abi Bukayr.

أحمد:١٨٨٧٥ – حَدَّثَنَا حَسَنُ بْنُ مُوسَى حَدَّثَنَا زُهَيْرٌ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِ بْنِ وَائِلٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَضَعُ يَدَهُ الْيُمْنَى فِي الصَّلَاةِ عَلَى الْيُسْرَى، فَذَكَرَ مِثْلَ حَدِيثِ ابْنِ أَبِي بَكَيْرٍ.