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tabarani:9378Muḥammad b. al-Naḍr al-Azdī > Muʿāwiyah b. ʿAmr > Zuhayr > Abū Isḥāq > Abū al-Aḥwaṣ > ʿAbdullāh

[Machine] "The imam has been made in order to be followed, so when he bows, all of you should bow, and when he raises, all of you should raise. Do not rush ahead of him neither when he bows nor when he raises nor when he prostrates. If you are to catch up with what happened before you, it is only for you to catch up with what he did before you: for indeed, he prostrates before you and raises before you, so that you catch up with that."  

الطبراني:٩٣٧٨حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ النَّضْرِ الْأَزْدِيُّ ثنا مُعَاوِيَةُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو ثنا زُهَيْرٌ ثنا أَبُو إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ أَبِي الْأَحْوَصِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ قَالَ

«إِنَّمَا جُعِلَ الْإِمَامُ لِيُؤْتَمَّ بِهِ فَإِذَا رَكَعَ فَارْكَعُوا وَإِذَا رَفَعَ فَارْفَعُوا وَلَا تَسْبِقُوهُ إِذَا رَكَعَ وَلَا إِذَا رَفَعَ وَلَا إِذَا سَجَدَ فَإِنْ كُنْتُمْ إِنَّمَا بِكُمْ أَنْ تُدْرِكُوا مَا سَبَقَكُمْ بِهِ فَإِنَّهُ يَسْجُدُ قَبْلَكُمْ وَيَرْفَعُ قَبْلَكُمْ فَتُدْرِكُوا ذَلِكَ»  


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السيوطي:٤٣٠-٢٥٤b

"عَنِ ابنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ: لَا تَسْبِقُوا قراءكم إِنَّمَا جُعِلَ الإِمَامُ لِيُؤْتَمَّ بِهِ فَإذَا رَكَعَ فَارْكَعُوا وَإِذَا سَجَدَ فَاسْجُدُوا، فَإِنَّ أَحَدَكُمْ يَكُونُ مَعَهُ السُّوَرةُ فَيَقْرَؤُهَا فَإِذَا فَرَغَ رَكَعَ مِنْ قَبْلِ أنْ يَرْكَعَ الإِمَامُ، فَلَا تُسَابِقُوا قُرَّاءَكُمْ فَإنَّمَا جُعِلَ الإِمَامُ لِيُؤْتَمَّ بِهِ".  

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