123 - Supplication upon Seeing the House (the Ka'bah)

2896 - 'Amr ibn 'Ali informed us, saying: Abu 'Asim narrated to us, saying: Ibn Jurayj narrated to us, saying: 'Ubaydullah ibn Abi Yazid narrated to me that 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Tariq ibn 'Alqamah informed him, on the authority of his mother, that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, when he came to a place in the house of Ya'la, would face the qiblah and supplicate. (1)(2)

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= [It appears in] "Al-Kubra" as number (3864).

It was also narrated by Abu Dawud (1870) from Yahya ibn Ma'in, from Muhammad ibn Ja'far, with this chain of transmission.

It was also narrated by al-Tirmidhi (855) via Waki', from Shu'bah, with it.

Al-Khattabi said in "Ma'alim al-Sunan" 2/191: People differed regarding this. Among those who raised their hands upon seeing the House were Sufyan al-Thawri, Ibn al-Mubarak, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, and Ishaq ibn Rahawayh. These scholars deemed the hadith of Jabir weak because, in their view, Muhajir — its narrator — was unknown. They instead followed the hadith of Ibn 'Abbas from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, who said: "Hands are raised in seven places: at the opening of the prayer, upon facing the House, upon [the hills of] al-Safa and al-Marwah, at the two standing-places, and at the two jamrahs." It was also related from Ibn 'Umar that he would raise his hands upon seeing the House, and likewise from Ibn 'Abbas.

Al-Bayhaqi cited the two hadiths of Ibn 'Abbas and Ibn 'Umar in "Al-Sunan al-Kubra" 5/72-73 and demonstrated their weakness, then said: The first (meaning the hadith of Ibn 'Abbas), despite its interrupted chain, is more well-known among the people of knowledge than the hadith of Muhajir, and it has supporting witnesses even if they are interrupted. And the opinion in such a matter is that of the one who held [the practice] and affirmed it.

(1) In (R), and above it in (M): "then he supplicated" (fa-da'a).

(2) Its chain is weak, due to the unknown status of 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Tariq, and due to his inconsistency in it — sometimes he narrated it from his mother, sometimes from his uncle, and sometimes from his father. The rest of its narrators are trustworthy. 'Amr ibn 'Ali is al-Fallas, Abu 'Asim is al-Dahhak ibn Makhlad, and Ibn Jurayj is 'Abd al-Malik ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz. It appears in "Al-Sunan al-Kubra" as number (3865).

'Abd al-Rahman ibn Tariq was inconsistent in its chain of transmission:

Ahmad narrated it (27460) and (27462), and Abu Dawud (2007), via multiple paths, from Ibn Jurayj, with this chain. In the second narration of Ahmad, there is an addition: "I and 'Abdullah ibn Kathir, when we came to that place, would face the House and supplicate." And in Abu Dawud's version, the wording "passed by a place" (jaza makanan) appears instead of "came to a place" (ja'a makanan).