5 - Prayer before the Imam on the Day of the Festival (1)

1561 - Ishaq ibn Mansur informed us, saying: Abd al-Rahman informed us, from Sufyan, from al-Ash'ath, from al-Aswad ibn Hilal, from Tha'laba ibn Zahdam,

that Ali appointed Abu Mas'ud as his deputy over the people, and he went out on the day of the festival and said: "O people, it is not from the Sunnah that prayer be offered before the Imam." (2)

--------------------------------------------

= The compiler paired Sulayman ibn Dawud with a second shaykh, Ahmad ibn Amr ibn al-Sarh.

It was also recorded by Muslim (2068): (8), Abu Dawud (1077) and (4041), from the path of Ibn Wahb, with this chain of transmission. The second narration of Abu Dawud is abridged.

It was also recorded by al-Bukhari (948) and (3054), and by the compiler in al-Kubra (9501), from two paths from al-Zuhri, with it.

It was also recorded by Ahmad (5951) and (5952), al-Bukhari (2104), and Muslim (2068): (9), from the path of Abu Bakr ibn Hafs, from Salim, with it.

It was also recorded by Ahmad (4767), from the path of Ali ibn Zayd ibn Jud'an, from Salim, with it, abridged, with the wording: "Only he who has no share (of good) wears silk."

And see what has preceded under number (1382), and what will follow under number (5299).

(1) In (M) and the margins of (K) and (H): "the two festivals."

(2) Its chain of transmission is sound. Abd al-Rahman: he is Ibn Mahdi. Sufyan: he is Ibn Sa'id al-Thawri. Al-Ash'ath: he is Ibn Abi al-Sha'tha' al-Muharibi. It is in al-Sunan al-Kubra under number (1773).

It was also recorded by Ibn Abi Shayba (5790), from Waki', from Sufyan al-Thawri, with it, in similar wording.

It was also recorded by Ibn Abi Asim in al-Ahad wa al-Mathani (1177), from the path of Shu'ba, and by Ibn al-Mundhir in al-Awsat (2109), from the path of Abu al-Ahwas, both from al-Ash'ath, with it.

Al-Daraqutni said in al-Ilal 6/198: Raqaba ibn Masqala and Husayn ibn Imran narrated it from Ash'ath, as mursal, from Abu Mas'ud, and al-Thawri established its chain of transmission precisely.

Al-Sindi said: His saying "that prayer be offered before the Imam" means: absolutely, or in the place of prayer.