Hadith 342

Sahih Muslim

Book 5: The Book of Mosques and Places of Prayer

Chapter 49

The virtue of offering the obligatory prayers in congregation, the virtue of waiting for prayer and taking many steps towards the masjid, the virtue of walking to the masjid

باب فَضْلِ صَلاَةِ الْجَمَاعَةِ وَانْتِظَارِ الصَّلاَةِ ‏‏

Sahih Muslim 649i
وَحَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ حَاتِمٍ، حَدَّثَنَا بَهْزٌ، حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ ثَابِتٍ، عَنْ أَبِي رَافِعٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ ‏ ‏ ‏.‏ قُلْتُ مَا يُحْدِثُ قَالَ يَفْسُو أَوْ يَضْرِطُ ‏.‏
"‏ لاَ يَزَالُ الْعَبْدُ فِي صَلاَةٍ مَا كَانَ فِي مُصَلاَّهُ يَنْتَظِرُ الصَّلاَةَ وَتَقُولُ الْمَلاَئِكَةُ اللَّهُمَّ اغْفِرْ لَهُ اللَّهُمَّ ارْحَمْهُ ‏.‏ حَتَّى يَنْصَرِفَ أَوْ يُحْدِثَ ‏"
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:

The servant is constantly in prayer so long as he is in a place of worship waiting for the prayer (to be observed in congregation), and the angels invoke (blessings upon him in these words): O Allah! pardon him. O Allah! show mercy to him, (and they continue to do so) till he returns (from the mosque having completed the prayer) or his ablution breaks. I said: How is the ablution broken? He said: By breaking of the wind noiselessly or with noise.

Chain of Narrators

companion
1

Abu Hurairah -

أبو هريرة عبد الرحمن بن صخر الدوسي

4,186 narrations

companion
2

Abu Rafi'

أسلم أبو رافع مولى رسول الله

81 narrations

follower
3

Thabit bin Aslam Albanani

ثابت بن أسلم البناني

444 narrations

successor
4

Hammad bin Salama

حماد بن سلمة

340 narrations

invalid
5

Bahz bin Asad al-'Ami

بهز بن أسد العمي أبو الأسود البصري

89 narrations

3rd Generation
6

Muhammad bin Hatm bin Sulaiman

محمد بن حاتم بن سليمان الزمي

161 narrations