2898 — Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm and Muḥammad ibn Rāfiʿ informed us. Isḥāq said: informed us; and Muḥammad said: narrated to us ʿAbd al-Razzāq, who said: narrated to us Ibn Jurayj, who said: I heard Nāfiʿ say: narrated to us Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Maʿbad, that Ibn ʿAbbās narrated to him, that Maymūnah, the wife of the Prophet, peace and blessings of God be upon him, said: I heard the Messenger of God, peace and blessings of God be upon him, say: "A prayer..."

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And it was also recorded by Aḥmad (4646), Muslim (1395), and Ibn Mājah (8405) via ʿUbayd Allāh al-ʿUmarī; and Aḥmad (5358) via ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿUmarī; and Muslim (1395) also via Ayyūb — all three of them from Nāfiʿ, with the same chain. Thus Mūsā al-Juhanī was not alone in narrating this ḥadīth from Nāfiʿ, contrary to what the author, may God have mercy on him, mentioned. And God knows best.

It was also recorded by Aḥmad (4838) and (6436) via ʿAṭāʾ, from Ibn ʿUmar, with the same chain. The wording of the second narration is: "Indeed, prayer in my mosque here is better than prayer anywhere else..." And in a manuscript copy of it (as noted in its margins) it reads: "better than a thousand prayers."

See also the ḥadīths that follow it, and al-Dāraquṭnī's *ʿIlal*, 9/49.

(1) The word "that" (anna) is an insertion in the text of (M) in the copyist's hand, with a mark of correctness above it. In the other copies it reads: "Ibn Maʿbad ibn ʿAbbās." The sources of the ḥadīth differ regarding the mention of Ibn ʿAbbās in the chain between Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Maʿbad and Maymūnah. It is mentioned in the author's *al-Sunan al-Kubrā* (3867) and in Muslim's *Ṣaḥīḥ* (1396), but it is not mentioned in the book of Abū al-Qāsim, nor in some copies of the book of Abū Masʿūd, nor in Ibn Manjawayh's book on the narrators of Muslim, as al-Mizzī mentioned in *Tuḥfat al-Ashrāf* (18057), where he said: "All of that is an error on the part of whoever said it — may God forgive us and them. And in most copies of Muslim's *Ṣaḥīḥ* it reads: 'from Ibn ʿAbbās, from Maymūnah.'" End of his statement. However, al-Nawawī said in *Sharḥ Muslim*, 9/166: "This ḥadīth is among those for which Muslim was criticized on account of its chain, and the ḥadīth scholars said: the mention of Ibn ʿAbbās in it is an error." End quote. Al-Bukhārī said in *al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr*, 1/302–303: "The mention of Ibn ʿAbbās in it is not sound." End quote. And al-Dāraquṭnī said in *al-ʿIlal*, 4/300: "Some of them said in it: 'from Ibn ʿAbbās, from Maymūnah,' but it is not established." End quote.

I have preferred to affirm the reading of copy (M) for this ḥadīth because it is via ʿAbd al-Razzāq, and it is likewise in his *Muṣannaf*, and Aḥmad also narrated it from him in his *Musnad*. It also agrees with what is in the author's *al-Sunan al-Kubrā* and with his subsequent statement, where he said: "Al-Layth narrated it, from Nāfiʿ, from Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Maʿbad, from Maymūnah," without mentioning Ibn ʿAbbās.