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سنن ابي داود
Abu Dawud
أبواب تفريع استفتاح الصلاةPrayer (Tafarah Abwab Estaftah Assalah)
باب مَنْ رَأَى الاِسْتِفْتَاحَ بِسُبْحَانَكَ اللَّهُمَّ وَبِحَمْدِكَChapter: Those Who Believed That The Opening Should Be "Subhanak Allahumman Wa Bihamdik".
Hadith 776
اُردوEn
حَدَّثَنَا حُسَيْنُ بْنُ عِيسَى ، حَدَّثَنَا طَلْقُ بْنُ غَنَّامٍ ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ السَّلَامِ بْنُ حَرْبٍ الْمُلَائِيُّ ، عَنْ بُدَيْلِ بْنِ مَيْسَرَةَ ، عَنْ أَبِي الْجَوْزَاءِ ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ ، قَالَتْ : " كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ إِذَا اسْتَفْتَحَ الصَّلَاةَ ، قَالَ : سُبْحَانَكَ اللَّهُمَّ وَبِحَمْدِكَ وَتَبَارَكَ اسْمُكَ وَتَعَالَى جَدُّكَ وَلَا إِلَهَ غَيْرَكَ " ، قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُد : وَهَذَا الْحَدِيثُ لَيْسَ بِالْمَشْهُورِ عَنْ عَبْدِ السَّلَامِ بْنِ حَرْبٍ ، لَمْ يَرْوِهِ إِلَّا طَلْقُ بْنُ غَنَّامٍ ، وَقَدْ رَوَى قِصَّةَ الصَّلَاةِ عَنْ بُدَيْلٍ جَمَاعَةٌ لَمْ يَذْكُرُوا فِيهِ شَيْئًا مِنْ هَذَا .
Narrated Aishah, Ummul Muminin: When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ began his prayer, he said: "Glory be to Thee, O Allah, " and "Praise be to Thee" and "Blessed is Thy name, and Exalted is Thy greatness, sand there is no god but Allah. " Abu Dawud said: This tradition is not well known from Abd al-Salam bin Harb. No one narrated this except Talq bin Ghannam. A group of narrators reported the description of prayer from (the narrator) Budail; they did not mention therein this supplication.
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Shaykh Umar Farooq Saeedi
776. Commentary:
Allamah Shawkani rahimahullah states that it is preferable and superior to choose only those supplications (adhkar) which are authentically established from the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam through sound chains of narration. Among the opening supplications of prayer, the most authentic is the hadith of Abu Hurairah radi Allahu anhu: «يعني اللهم باعد بيني و بين . . .» [صحيح بخاري حديث 744۔ وصحيح مسلم حديث 598] After this comes the hadith of Ali radi Allahu anhu, that is, «وجهت وجهي للذي فطر السموات . . . الخ», and the hadith of Aishah radi Allahu anha and Abu Sa'id radi Allahu anhu, that is, «سبحانك اللهم . . . الخ», about which there is some discussion. [نيل الاوطار 215/2۔ تا 219]
However, Imam Shawkani rahimahullah, in the next chapter, has also considered this hadith to be actionable due to supporting narrations.
Shaykh al-Albani rahimahullah has declared this hadith to be authentic.
In addition, our researcher (Shaykh Zubair Ali Zai rahimahullah) has also declared it authentic.
Therefore, reciting this opening supplication is also correct; although in terms of the grading of the hadith, its rank is third, it is still authentic.
Allamah Shawkani rahimahullah states that it is preferable and superior to choose only those supplications (adhkar) which are authentically established from the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam through sound chains of narration. Among the opening supplications of prayer, the most authentic is the hadith of Abu Hurairah radi Allahu anhu: «يعني اللهم باعد بيني و بين . . .» [صحيح بخاري حديث 744۔ وصحيح مسلم حديث 598] After this comes the hadith of Ali radi Allahu anhu, that is, «وجهت وجهي للذي فطر السموات . . . الخ», and the hadith of Aishah radi Allahu anha and Abu Sa'id radi Allahu anhu, that is, «سبحانك اللهم . . . الخ», about which there is some discussion. [نيل الاوطار 215/2۔ تا 219]
However, Imam Shawkani rahimahullah, in the next chapter, has also considered this hadith to be actionable due to supporting narrations.
Shaykh al-Albani rahimahullah has declared this hadith to be authentic.
In addition, our researcher (Shaykh Zubair Ali Zai rahimahullah) has also declared it authentic.
Therefore, reciting this opening supplication is also correct; although in terms of the grading of the hadith, its rank is third, it is still authentic.
Source: Sunan Abu Dawood – Commentary by Shaykh Umar Farooq Saeedi, Page: 776
Shaykh Dr. Abdur Rahman Freywai
Commentary:
Note:
(Harithah bin Abi al-Rijal is weak,
as the author himself has commented,
but by being strengthened through the preceding hadith, this narration is authentic.)
Note:
(Harithah bin Abi al-Rijal is weak,
as the author himself has commented,
but by being strengthened through the preceding hadith, this narration is authentic.)
Source: Sunan al-Tirmidhi – Majlis ‘Ilmi Dar al-Da‘wah, New Delhi Edition, Page: 243
