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Bayhaqi 1689 — The five obligatory prayers

أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الْحَافِظُ، أنا أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ، ثنا أَبُو بَكْرٍ يَحْيَى بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ثنا عَبْدُ الْوَهَّابِ يَعْنِي ابْنَ عَطَاءٍ الْخَفَّافَ، أنبأ سَعِيدٌ يَعْنِي ابْنَ أَبِي عَرُوبَةَ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ عَنْ مَالِكِ بْنِ صَعْصَعَةَ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَذَكَرَ قِصَّةَ الْمِعْرَاجِ وَفِيهَا قَالَ: " وَفُرِضَتْ عَلَيَّ خَمْسُونَ صَلَاةً كُلَّ يَوْمٍ - أَوْ قَالَ: أُمِرْتُ بِخَمْسِينَ صَلَاةٍ كُلَّ يَوْمٍ الشَّكُّ مِنْ سَعِيدٍ - فَجِئْتُ حَتَّى أَتَيْتُ عَلَى مُوسَى فَقَالَ لِي: بِمَا أُمِرْتَ؟ فَقُلْتُ: أُمِرْتُ بِخَمْسِينَ صَلَاةً كُلَّ يَوْمٍ قَالَ: إِنِّي قَدْ بَلَوْتُ النَّاسَ قَبْلَكَ وَعَالَجْتُ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ أَشَدَّ الْمُعَالَجَةِ وَإِنَّ أُمَّتَكَ لَا يُطِيقُونَ ذَلِكَ فَارْجِعْ إِلَى رَبِّكَ فَسَلْهُ التَّخْفِيفَ لِأُمَّتِكَ فَرَجَعْتُ فَحَطَّ عَنِّي خَمْسَ صَلَوَاتٍ فَمَا زِلْتُ أَخْتَلِفُ بَيْنَ رَبِّي وَبَيْنَ مُوسَى كُلَّمَا أَتَيْتُ عَلَيْهِ قَالَ لِي مِثْلَ مَقَالَتِهِ حَتَّى رَجَعْتُ بِخَمْسِ صَلَوَاتٍ كُلَّ يَوْمٍ فَلَمَّا أَتَيْتُ عَلَى مُوسَى قَالَ لِي: بِمَا أُمِرْتُ؟ قُلْتُ: بِخَمْسِ صَلَوَاتٍ كُلَّ يَوْمٍ قَالَ: إِنِّي بَلَوْتُ النَّاسَ قَبْلَكَ وَعَالَجْتُ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ أَشَدَّ الْمُعَالَجَةِ وَإِنَّ أُمَّتَكَ لَا يُطِيقُونَ ذَلِكَ فَارْجِعْ إِلَى رَبِّكَ فَسَلْهُ التَّخْفِيفَ لِأُمَّتِكَ قُلْتُ: لَقَدْ رَجَعْتُ إِلَى ⦗٥٣٠⦘ رَبِّي حَتَّى اسْتَحْيَيْتُ وَلَكِنْ أَرْضَى وَأُسَلِّمُ قَالَ: فَنُودِيتُ أَوْ نَادَانِي مُنَادٍ - الشَّكُّ مِنْ سَعِيدٍ - أَنْ قَدْ أَمْضَيْتُ فَرِيضَتِي وَخَفَّفْتُ عَنْ عِبَادِي وَجَعَلْتُ بِكُلِّ حَسَنَةٍ عَشْرَ " أَمْثَالِهَا مُخَرَّجٌ فِي الصَّحِيحَيْنِ مِنْ حَدِيثِ سَعِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي عَرُوبَةَ.
Sayyiduna Malik bin Sa'sa'ah (may Allah be pleased with him), relating the account of the Mi'raj from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), says that he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Fifty prayers each day were made obligatory upon me", or he said: "I was ordered to perform fifty prayers each day" (Sa'id is in doubt). "I came to Musa (peace be upon him), and he said to me: What have you been ordered? I said: I have been ordered fifty prayers a day. He said: I have tested people before you and dealt with the Children of Israel most strenuously; your Ummah will not be able to bear it. Go back to your Lord and ask Him for lightening for your Ummah. I went back, and Allah Almighty reduced five prayers for me. I kept going back and forth between my Lord and Musa (peace be upon him); whenever I came to him, he said to me the like of what he had said before, until I returned with five prayers each day. When I came to Musa (peace be upon him), he said to me: What have you been ordered? I said: I have been ordered five prayers each day. He said: Before you I tested people and dealt with the Children of Israel most severely; your Ummah will certainly not be able to bear it. Go back to your Lord and ask Him for lightening for your Ummah. I said: I have gone back to my Lord until I feel shy, but I am content and I submit." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I was called out to, or a caller called out to me" (the narrator Sa'id is in doubt), "that: I have enacted My obligation, I have lightened it for My servants, and I have made every good deed (in its reward) worth ten like it."
Hadith Reference السنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصلاة / 1689
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