9 - Chapter: The Reckoning Concerning Prayer

465 - Abu Dawud informed us, saying: Harun — that is, Ibn Isma'il al-Khazzaz — narrated to us, saying: Hammam narrated to us, from Qatadah, from al-Hasan, from Huraith ibn Qabisah, who said:

I arrived in Madinah. He said: I said, "O Allah, make easy for me a righteous companion." So I sat with Abu Hurayrah. He said: I said, "I have asked Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, to make easy for me a righteous companion, so narrate to me a hadith that you heard from the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him; perhaps Allah will benefit me through it." He said: I heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, say: "Indeed, the first thing for which the servant will be reckoned is his prayer. If it is sound, then he has succeeded and prospered, and if it is corrupt, then he has failed and lost." Hammam said: I do not know whether this is from the speech of Qatadah or from the narration: "If he has fallen short in something of his obligatory prayer, He will say: Look, does My servant have any voluntary prayers by which what he fell short of the obligatory prayer may be completed? Then the rest of his deeds will be treated in like manner."

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It was also narrated with similar wording by Muslim, following (82), via the path of al-Dahhak ibn Makhlad, from Ibn Jurayj, with this chain. It was also narrated with similar wording by Ahmad (15183), Abu Dawud (4678), al-Tirmidhi (2620), and Ibn Majah (1078) via two paths, from Abu al-Zubayr, from him.

It was also narrated by Ahmad (14979), Muslim (82), al-Tirmidhi (2618) and (2619), and Ibn Hibban (1453) via multiple paths, from al-A'mash, from Abu Sufyan, from Jabir, with similar wording. Al-Tirmidhi said: A hasan sahih hadith. Abu Sufyan: his name is Talhah ibn Nafi'.

(1) His statement: "that is, Ibn Isma'il," is from (H) and the margin of (K).
(2) In (K) and the margin of (YH): "something" (shay'an).
(3) In the margin of (K) and above it in (M): "for him" (lahu).
(4) A sahih hadith, but this chain is weak due to the weakness of Huraith ibn Qabisah — and the well-known [name] is Qabisah ibn Huraith. Al-Bukhari said: There is consideration regarding his hadith. The author said: His hadith is not authentic, and Ibn al-Qattan declared him unknown. The rest of its narrators are trustworthy: Abu Dawud, the author's shaykh, is Sulayman ibn Sayf al-Harrani; Hammam is Ibn Yahya al-'Awdhi; Qatadah is Ibn Di'amah al-Sadusi; and al-Hasan is al-Basri. The hadith is in "al-Sunan al-Kubra" under number (322). =