834 - Al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-ʿAnbarī informed us, saying: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī narrated to us, saying: Zāʾidah narrated to us, from Mūsā ibn Abī ʿĀʾishah, from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh, who said:

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= Al-Kubrā, no. (909).

Also narrated by Aḥmad (25876), al-Bukhārī (713), Muslim (418): (95), Ibn Mājah (1232), and Ibn Ḥibbān (2121) (abbreviated) via Abū Muʿāwiyah, with this chain of transmission. Abū Muʿāwiyah was alone in mentioning that he, peace and blessings be upon him, sat to the left of Abū Bakr. Ibn Rajab said in Fatḥ al-Bārī 6/71: "Although Abū Muʿāwiyah was a memorizer of the ḥadīth of al-Aʿmash in particular, the fact that the other companions of al-Aʿmash omitted this phrase from him casts suspicion upon it."

Also narrated by Aḥmad (25761), al-Bukhārī (664) and (712), Muslim (418): (96), Ibn Mājah (1232), and Ibn Ḥibbān (2120) via multiple chains from al-Aʿmash, with it. In these narrations, the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, sat beside Abū Bakr. The wording at the end of one narration in al-Bukhārī (664) is: It was said to al-Aʿmash: "Was the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, praying while Abū Bakr prayed with his prayer, and the people prayed with Abū Bakr's prayer?" He said with his head: "Yes."

Ibn Rajab transmitted in Fatḥ al-Bārī 6/77 from al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad his statement: "Most people say that Abū Bakr was the one put forward," meaning in the imamate. Then he said: "And the scholars of Medina hold this opinion, and they are the most knowledgeable of people about this story."

Also narrated by Aḥmad (24647), (25258), (25663), (25943), and (26323), al-Bukhārī (679), (683), (716), (3384), and (7303), Muslim (418): (97), Ibn Mājah (1233), and Ibn Ḥibbān (6601) via ʿUrwah; and by Aḥmad (25917), al-Bukhārī (682), Muslim (418): (94), and the author in al-Sunan al-Kubrā (9228) via Ḥamzah ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar — both from ʿĀʾishah, with it. Some of them add to it over others, and the mention of Abū Bakr's prayer with the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, is absent from some of these narrations.

See also the following ḥadīth, and the one previously mentioned at no. (786).

Al-Sindī said: "Asīf" is like ḥazīn in form and meaning. "The women companions of Yūsuf" means those like them in the frequency of insistence. "Then when he entered the prayer, he found" — that is, when he entered into leading the people in prayer, meaning into the position of the imamate, and he was established as their imam and continued in that for days, the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, found in himself a lightness on some days... And the intended meaning is not that when he entered into that particular prayer concerning which the discussion occurred, he found in =