74 - Chapter: On Being Deliberate in the First Two Rakʿahs

1002 - ʿAmr ibn ʿAlī informed us, saying: Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd narrated to us, saying: Shuʿbah narrated to us, saying: Abū ʿAwn narrated to me, saying: I heard Jābir ibn Samurah say:

ʿUmar said to Saʿd: "The people have complained about you regarding everything, even regarding the prayer." Saʿd replied: "I am deliberate in the first two rakʿahs, and I shorten in the last two, and I do not fall short of what I have followed from the prayer of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him." He said: "That is what I expected of you."

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= That he recited in one of the two rakʿahs.

And it has preceded before this via the route of Yaḥyā al-Anṣārī, from ʿAdī, with it.

(1) In (M) and the margins of (R), (K), and (H): "amuddu" (I extend), and in the margin of (M): "atta'id" (I am deliberate).
(2) In (R): "the first two... the last two."
(3) Its chain is authentic. Abū ʿAwn: he is Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Thaqafī. It is in "Al-Sunan al-Kubrā" under number (1076), and in it: "amuddu" (I extend) as a variant for "atta'id" (I am deliberate).

And Aḥmad (1510), al-Bukhārī (770), Muslim (453): (159), Abū Dāwūd (803), and Ibn Ḥibbān (1937) and (2140) all narrated it via routes from Shuʿbah, with this chain. And with all of them, except Ibn Ḥibbān: "fa-amuddu" (so I extend) as a variant for "atta'id" (I am deliberate). And in his version it occurs as: "I lengthen the first two," and in narration (2140): "and I hasten in the last two."

And Muslim (453): (160) narrated it via the route of Misʿar, from Abū ʿAwn and ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr, with it, and it will come via the route of ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr in the following ḥadīth.

Al-Sindī said: His statement "The people have complained about you" — meaning: the people of Kufah. And Saʿd was a governor appointed by ʿUmar over them, so they came to ʿUmar and complained about Saʿd, so ʿUmar summoned him and said this to him.

"Atta'id" — with a shaddah on the tāʾ followed by a kasrah on the hamzah, and before it a fatḥah on the hamzah, meaning: I am deliberate and do not hasten. And in some copies: "amuddu" with a shaddah on the dāl, meaning: I increase and lengthen.

"And aḥdhif" — meaning: I lighten. "And I do not fall short" — meaning: I do not fall short in a prayer that I have followed as a model, and it is the prayer of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him. End. And "aḥdhim" (in Ibn Ḥibbān's narration) — meaning: I hasten.