Abu Dawud said: Ibn ‘Umar used to sit with his knees drawn up and his garment wrapped around them (iḥtibā’) while the imam was delivering the sermon, as did Anas ibn Malik, Shurayḥ, Ṣaʿṣaʿah ibn Ṣūḥān, Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyab, Ibrāhīm al-Nakhaʿī, Makḥūl, and Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad ibn Saʿd. Nuʿaym ibn Salāmah said: There is no harm in it.

Abu Dawud said: It has not reached me that anyone disapproved of it except ʿUbādah ibn Nusayy.(1)

234 - Chapter: On speaking while the imam is delivering the sermon

1112 - Al-Qaʿnabī narrated to us, from Mālik, from Ibn Shihāb, from Saʿīd, from Abū Hurayrah, that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "If you say, 'Be quiet,' while the imam is delivering the sermon, you have spoken vainly (laghawta)."(2)

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(1) It has also been reported from Makḥūl, ʿAṭāʾ, and al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī that they disapproved of sitting with knees drawn up and garment wrapped around them while the imam delivered the Friday sermon. Narrated by Ibn Abī Shaybah in al-Muṣannaf, 2/119.

(2) Its chain of transmission is sound. Saʿīd: he is Ibn al-Musayyab, and Ibn Shihāb: he is Muḥammad ibn Muslim al-Zuhrī, and Mālik: he is Ibn Anas, and al-Qaʿnabī: he is ʿAbd Allāh ibn Maslamah ibn Qaʿnab.

It was also recorded by al-Bukhārī (934), Muslim (851), Ibn Mājah (1110), al-Tirmidhī (519), and al-Nasāʾī (1738), (1739), and (1740) via the route of Ibn Shihāb al-Zuhrī, from him.

It was also recorded by Muslim (851) and al-Nasāʾī (1740) via the route of Ibn Shihāb al-Zuhrī, from ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Qāriẓ, from Abū Hurayrah.

It was also recorded by Mālik in his Muwaṭṭaʾ, 1/103, and Muslim (851) via the route of Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah—both of them (Mālik and Ibn ʿUyaynah)—from Abū al-Zinād, from al-Aʿraj, from Abū Hurayrah.

It is also in Musnad Aḥmad (7332) and (7686), and Ṣaḥīḥ Ibn Ḥibbān (2793).

Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr mentioned in al-Tamhīd, 19/29, that al-Qaʿnabī, Ibn al-Qāsim, Ibn Wahb, and others combined in their versions of the Muwaṭṭaʾ the two chains of Mālik mentioned above, and that Yaḥyā al-Laythī mentioned only his chain from Abū al-Zinād. Likewise Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Shaybānī in his narration.