938 — Al-Walīd ibn ʿUtbah al-Dimashqī and Maḥmūd ibn Khālid narrated to us, both saying: al-Firyābī narrated to us, from Ṣubayḥ ibn Muḥriz al-Ḥimṣī, who said: Abū Muṣabbiḥ al-Maqrāʾī narrated to me, who said:

We used to sit with Abū Zuhayr al-Numayrī — and he was among the Companions — and he would speak in the finest manner. Whenever one of us made a supplication, he would say: "Seal it with Āmīn, for Āmīn is like the seal upon the scroll." Abū Zuhayr said: I shall tell you about that. We went out one night with the Messenger of Allah — may Allah bless him and grant him peace — and we came upon a man who was earnest and persistent in his supplication. The Prophet — may Allah bless him and grant him peace — stopped to listen to him, then said: "He has made it obligatory if he seals it." A man from the people said: "With what does he seal it?" He said: "With Āmīn, for if he seals it with Āmīn, he will be answered."

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It was also recorded by Ibn Abī Shaybah 2/425 from Ḥafṣ ibn Ghiyāth, and Aḥmad (23883) from Muḥammad ibn Fuḍayl, and al-Bayhaqī 2/23 via the path of ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Ziyād — all three of them from ʿĀṣim, from Abū ʿUthmān, who said: Bilāl said to the Prophet — may Allah bless him and grant him peace …

It was also recorded by Ibn al-Athīr in "Usd al-Ghābah" 1/245 via the path of Sulaymān al-Taymī, from Abū ʿUthmān al-Nahdī: that Bilāl said to the Prophet — may Allah bless him and grant him peace … Abū Ḥātim in "al-ʿIlal" 1/116, al-Dāraquṭnī, and others deemed it mursal, but Ibn al-Turkumānī said in "al-Jawhar al-Naqī" 2/23: Abū ʿUthmān embraced Islam during the lifetime of the Prophet — may Allah bless him and grant him peace — and heard from a great number of his Companions, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, such as ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb and others. Thus, when he narrates from Bilāl using the wording (ʿan) or (qāla), it is to be understood as connected (muttaṣil), according to what is well established among them.

It was also recorded by al-Ṭabarānī (6136) via the path of Sulaymān al-Taymī, from Abū ʿUthmān, from Salmān: that Bilāl said … Its narrators are trustworthy, except that al-Ṭabarānī's shaykh therein was Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Akhram, who had become confused (ikhtalaṭa) a year before his death, as noted in "Lisān al-Mīzān" 5/216.

And ʿAbd al-Razzāq (2640) narrated something similar to Bilāl's statement, with the wording: Abū Hurayrah would enter the mosque when the imam had already stood up before him, and he would say: "Do not precede me with Āmīn." Al-Bukhārī narrated it as a taʿlīq under the chapter on the imam's audible utterance of Āmīn, preceding the ḥadīth (780), with the wording "lā tafutnī bi-Āmīn," which means the same as "do not precede me with Āmīn."

The meaning: do not cause me to miss uttering Āmīn. Al-Ḥāfiẓ said: Abū Hurayrah's intent was to say Āmīn along with the imam during the prayer.