836 — ʿAmr ibn ʿUthmān narrated to us, saying: My father and Baqiyyah narrated to us, from Shuʿayb, from al-Zuhrī, who said: Abū Bakr ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān and Abū Salamah informed me
that Abū Hurayrah used to say the takbīr in every prayer, both the obligatory and others: he would say the takbīr when he stood up, then say the takbīr when he bowed, then say "Samiʿa Allāhu liman ḥamidah," then say "Rabbanā wa laka al-ḥamd" before prostrating, then say "Allāhu akbar" when he went down to prostrate, then say the takbīr when he raised his head, then say the takbīr when he prostrated, then say the takbīr when he raised his head, then say the takbīr when he stood up from the sitting after two rakʿahs, and he would do that in every rakʿah until he finished the prayer. Then when he departed, he would say: "By Him in Whose hand my soul is, I am the one among you most similar in prayer to the Messenger of Allah — may Allah bless him and grant him peace. This was indeed his prayer until he departed this world."(1)

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= He did not say the takbīr except the opening takbīr, and some distinguished between the one praying alone and others, the reasoning being that the takbīr was prescribed to announce the movement of the imam, so the one praying alone does not need it. However, the settled matter is that the takbīr upon lowering and raising is prescribed for every worshipper, and the majority hold that all of it is recommended except the opening takbīr, while Aḥmad and some of the people of Ẓāhir scholarship hold that all of it is obligatory.

(1) Its chain is authentic. Abū ʿAmr ibn ʿUthmān: he is ʿUthmān ibn Saʿīd ibn Kathīr al-Ḥimṣī, and Baqiyyah: he is Ibn al-Walīd, and Shuʿayb: he is Ibn Abī Ḥamzah, and Abū Bakr ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān: he is Ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Hishām al-Makhzūmī, and Abū Salamah: he is Ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf al-Zuhrī.
Al-Bukhārī also narrated it (803) from Abū al-Yamān, from Shuʿayb ibn Abī Ḥamzah, with this chain.
Al-Nasāʾī narrated it in al-Kubrā (746) via the route of ʿAbd al-Aʿlā ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā, from Maʿmar, from al-Zuhrī, with it, like the narration of Shuʿayb ibn Abī Ḥamzah from al-Zuhrī.
It was also narrated in abbreviated form by al-Bukhārī (789), Muslim (392) and (28) and (29), and al-Tirmidhī (252) via multiple routes from al-Zuhrī, from Abū Bakr ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from Abū Hurayrah.
It was likewise narrated by al-Bukhārī (785), Muslim (392) (27) and (30), and al-Nasāʾī (651) and (745) and (1097) via multiple routes from al-Zuhrī, from Abū Salamah, from Abū Hurayrah. =