صحیح ابن حبان
Ibn Hibban
كتاب الصلاةBook of Prayer
باب صفة الصلاة - ذكر الخبر المدحض قول من زعم أن عبد الله بن مسعود غير جائز في فضله وعلمه أن لا يرى المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم يرفع يديه في الموضع الذي وصفنا إذ كان من أولي الأحلام والنهى رحمة الله عليه
Chapter on the Manner of Prayer – Report refuting the claim that Abdullah ibn Mas’ud, despite his virtue and knowledge, did not see the Prophet raise his hands as described
Hadith 1874
أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الأَزْدِيُّ ، قَالَ : حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ ، قَالَ : أَخْبَرَنَا عِيسَى بْنُ يُونُسَ ، قَالَ : حَدَّثَنَا الأَعْمَشُ ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ ، عَنِ الأَسْوَدِ ، قَالَ : دَخَلْتُ أَنَا وَعَلْقَمَةُ عَلَى ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ ، فَقَالَ لَنَا : أَصَلَّى هَؤُلاءِ ؟ فَقُلْنَا : لا . قَالَ : فَقُومُوا فَصَلُّوا ، فَذَهَبْنَا لِنَقُومَ خَلْفَهُ ، فَجَعَلَ أَحَدَنَا عَنْ يَمِينِهِ ، وَالآخَرَ عَنْ شِمَالِهِ ، فَصَلَّى بِغَيْرِ أَذَانٍ وَلا إِقَامَةٍ ، فَجَعَلَ إِذَا رَكَعَ شَبَّكَ بَيْنَ أَصَابِعِهِ فِي الصَّلاةِ ، فَجَعَلَهَا بَيْنَ رُكْبَتَيْهِ ، فَلَمَّا صَلَّى ، قَالَ : هَكَذَا رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يُصَلِّي ، وَقَالَ : " يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ ، إِنَّهَا سَتَكُونُ عَلَيْكُمْ أُمَرَاءُ يُمِيتُونَ الصَّلاةَ يَخْنُقُونَهَا إِلَى شَرَقِ الْمَوْتَى ، فَمَنْ أَدْرَكَ ذَلِكَ مِنْكُمْ ، فَلْيُصَلِّ الصَّلاةَ لِوَقْتِهَا ، وَلْيَجْعَلْ صَلاتَهُ مَعَهُمْ سُبْحَةً " . قَالَ أَبُو حَاتِمٍ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ : كَانَ ابْنُ مَسْعُودٍ رَحِمَهُ اللَّهُ مِمَّنْ يُشَبِّكُ يَدَيْهِ فِي الرُّكُوعِ ، وَزَعَمَ أَنَّهُ كَذَلِكَ رَأَى النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَفْعَلُهُ ، وَأَجْمَعَ الْمُسْلِمُونَ قَاطِبَةً مِنْ لَدُنِ الْمُصْطَفَى صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ إِلَى يَوْمِنَا هَذَا عَلَى أَنَّ الْفِعْلَ كَانَ فِي أَوَّلِ الإِسْلامِ ، ثُمَّ نَسَخَهُ الأَمْرُ بِوَضْعِ الْيَدَيْنِ لِلْمُصَلِّي فِي رُكُوعِهِ ، فَإِنْ جَازَ لابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ فِي فَضْلِهِ وَوَرَعِهِ ، وَكَثْرَةِ تَعَاهُدِهِ أَحْكَامَ الدِّينِ ، وَتَفَقُّدِهِ أَسْبَابَ الصَّلاةِ خَلْفَ الْمُصْطَفَى صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ ، وَهُوَ فِي الصَّفِّ الأَوَّلِ ، إِذْ كَانَ مِنْ أُولِي الأَحْلامِ وَالنُّهَى أَنْ يَخْفَى عَلَيْهِ مِثْلُ هَذَا الشَّيْءِ الْمُسْتَفِيضِ الَّذِي هُوَ مَنْسُوخٌ بِإِجْمَاعِ الْمُسْلِمِينَ ، أَوْ رَآهُ فَنَسِيَهُ ، جَازَ أَنْ يَكُونَ رَفْعُ الْمُصْطَفَى صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَدَيْهِ عِنْدَ الرُّكُوعِ ، وَعِنْدَ رَفْعِ الرَّأْسِ مِنَ الرُّكُوعِ ، مِثْلَ التَّشْبِيكِ فِي الرُّكُوعِ أَنْ يَخْفَى عَلَيْهِ ذَلِكَ ، أَوْ يَنْسَاهُ بَعْدَ أَنْ رَآهُ .
Aswad narrates: I and Alqamah went to the service of Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him). He asked us: Have those people performed the prayer? We replied: No. So he said: You both stand and perform the prayer. We stood up to pray behind him. He placed one of us on his right side and the other on his left side. Then he performed the prayer without giving the adhan or the iqamah. During the prayer, when he went into ruku', he interlaced his fingers and placed them between his two knees. When he had completed the prayer, he mentioned this matter. He said: I have seen the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) perform the prayer in this manner. He said: "O people! Soon there will be rulers appointed over you who will neglect the prayer; they will strangle it as a dying person is strangled. Whoever among you finds this situation, let him perform the prayer at its appointed time, and make his prayer with those people a voluntary one." (Imam Ibn Hibban, may Allah have mercy on him, says:) Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) used to interlace his fingers during ruku', and he held the opinion that he had seen the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) do so. However, from the time of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) until our present day, all Muslims are agreed that this act was in the early days of Islam, and then the command to place both hands on the knees during ruku' abrogated it. So, how could such a thing remain hidden from a person of the stature of Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him), with all his knowledge, virtue, asceticism, piety, his abundant practice of religious rulings, and his praying in the first row behind the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), as he was among the wise and experienced? Despite all this, how could something that is abrogated by the consensus of all Muslims remain hidden from him? Or perhaps he saw it and then forgot it. So it is also possible that, just as interlacing the fingers during ruku' was hidden from him, the act of raising the hands at the time of ruku' and when rising from ruku' by the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was also hidden from him, or he saw it and then forgot it.
