24 - Chapter: The Obligation of Reciting the Opening Chapter of the Book (al-Fātiḥah) in Prayer

910 - Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr informed us, from Sufyān, from al-Zuhrī, from Maḥmūd ibn al-Rabīʿ,
from ʿUbādah ibn al-Ṣāmit, from the Prophet ﷺ, who said: "There is no prayer for the one who does not recite the Opening Chapter of the Book (Fātiḥat al-Kitāb)."

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It is in the Muwaṭṭaʾ of Mālik 1/84–85, and from his transmission it was recorded by Aḥmad (9932), Muslim (395): (39), Abū Dāwūd (821), the author in al-Sunan al-Kubrā (10915), and Ibn Ḥibbān (1784).

It was also recorded in full and in abridged form by Aḥmad (7406) and (7836–7838) and (10319), Muslim (395): (40–41), al-Tirmidhī following (2953), and Ibn Mājah (838) via multiple chains from al-ʿAlāʾ ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from him.

It was also recorded in full and in abridged form by Aḥmad (7291) and (9898) and (10198), Muslim (395): (38) and (41), al-Tirmidhī (2953), Ibn Mājah (3784), the author in al-Sunan al-Kubrā (7959), and Ibn Ḥibbān (776) and (1788–1789) and (1794) and (1795) via multiple chains from al-ʿAlāʾ ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yaʿqūb, from his father, from Abū Hurayrah, from him.

It was also recorded by Aḥmad (9901) via the chain of ʿAbd al-Malik ibn al-Mughīrah ibn Nawfal, from Abū Hurayrah, with similar wording.

Al-Sindī said: His statement "it is khidāj" means: incomplete. So his statement "not complete" is an explanation of it. This is not an explicit text regarding the obligation of the Fātiḥah; rather, it admits of both the possibility of obligation and its absence. It seems that for this reason Abū Hurayrah turned away from it to the ḥadīth "I divided the prayer" when using evidence for its obligation.

(1) Its chain of transmission is sound. Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr: he is al-Jawwāz al-Makkī, and Sufyān: he is Ibn ʿUyaynah, and al-Zuhrī: he is Muḥammad ibn Muslim ibn Shihāb. It is in al-Sunan al-Kubrā under numbers (984) and (7955).

It was also recorded by Aḥmad (22677), al-Bukhārī (756), Muslim (394): (34), Abū Dāwūd (822), al-Tirmidhī (247), Ibn Mājah (837), and Ibn Ḥibbān (1782) via the chain of Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, with this chain of transmission. In Abū Dāwūd's version there is the addition: "and beyond," which is the wording of the ḥadīth that follows. In his version there is also the addition: Sufyān said: "for the one who prays alone."

It was also recorded by Aḥmad (22743) and Muslim (394): (35) and (36) via two chains from al-Zuhrī, from him.

It was also recorded by Aḥmad (22671) and (22694) and (22745) and (22746) and (22750), Abū Dāwūd (823), al-Tirmidhī (311), and Ibn Ḥibbān (1785) and (1792) and (1848) via the chain of Ibn Isḥāq, =