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tabarani:739ʿAbdullāh b. Wuhayb al-Ghazzī > Muḥammad b. Abū al-Sarī > Muʿtamir b. Sulaymān from his father > al-Ḥasan > Anas

[Machine] The translation of the passage is: "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to start with 'Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim' (In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful), as did Abu Bakr and Umar."  

الطبراني:٧٣٩حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ وُهَيْبٍ الْغَزِّيُّ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي السَّرِيِّ ثنا مُعْتَمِرُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ أَنَسٍ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ كَانَ يُسِرُّ بِبِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ وَعُمَرُ ؓ  


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Collected by Ibn Ḥibbān, Ṭabarānī

ذِكْرُ الْخَبَرِ الْمُدْحِضِ قَوْلَ مَنْ زَعَمَ أَنَّ قَتَادَةَ لَمْ يَسْمَعْ هَذَا الْخَبَرَ مِنْ أَنَسٍ

ibnhibban:1799ʿUmar b. Ismāʿīl b. Abū Ghaylān al-Thaqafī And al-Ṣṣūfī Waghayruhumā > ʿAlī b. al-Jaʿd > Shuʿbah Washaybān > Qatādah > Anas b. Mālik

"I prayed behind the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, Abu Bakr, Umar and Uthman, may Allah be pleased with them, and I did not hear any of them say out loud: In the Name of Allah, The Most Gracious, The Most Merciful." (Using translation from Nasāʾī 907)  

ابن حبّان:١٧٩٩أَخْبَرَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ أَبِي غَيْلَانَ الثَّقَفِيُّ وَالصُّوفِيُّ وَغَيْرُهُمَا قَالُوا حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْجَعْدِ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا شُعْبَةُ وَشَيْبَانُ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَنَسَ بْنَ مَالِكٍ قَالَ

«صَلَّيْتُ خَلْفَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ وَأَبِي بَكْرٍ وَعُمَرَ وَعُثْمَانَ رِضْوَانُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِمْ فَلَمْ أَسْمَعْ أَحَدًا يَجْهَرْ بِبِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ»  

ذِكْرُ الْخَبَرِ الْمُدْحِضِ قَوْلَ مَنْ زَعَمَ أَنَّ الْمُصْطَفَى ﷺ يَجْهَرُ بِـ {بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ} فِي كُلِّ الصَّلَوَاتِ

ibnhibban:1802Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Abū ʿAwn > Hārūn b. ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥammāl > Yaḥyá b. Ādam > Sufyān > Khālid al-Ḥadhhāʾ > Abū Qilābah > Anas

[Machine] "And the Messenger of Allah ﷺ , Abu Bakr, and Umar, may Allah be pleased with them, did not utter aloud 'In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.'"  

ابن حبّان:١٨٠٢أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ أَبِي عَوْنٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا هَارُونُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْحَمَّالُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ آدَمَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ خَالِدٍ الْحَذَّاءِ عَنْ أَبِي قِلَابَةِ عَنْ أَنَسٍ قَالَ

«وَكَانَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ وَعُمَرُ رِضْوَانُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِمَا لَا يَجْهَرُونَ بِ {بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ} »  

tabarani:14613ʿIṣmah

[Machine] "That the Messenger of Allah, ﷺ , used to start the recitation with {Praise be to Allah, the Lord of all the worlds}. And Abu Bakr, Umar, and Uthman used to do the same."  

الطبراني:١٤٦١٣وَبِإِسْنَادِهِ عَنْ عِصْمَةَ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ كَانَ يَسْتَفْتِحُ الْقِرَاءَةَ بِ {الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ} وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ وَعُمَرُ وَعُثْمَانُ ؓ