1108 - ʿAlī ibn Ḥujr informed us, saying: Ismāʿīl — namely Ibn Jaʿfar — informed us, saying: Dāwūd ibn Qays narrated to us, from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aqram, from his father, who said: I prayed with the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and I could see the whiteness of his armpits when he prostrated.

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Also recorded by Abū Dāwūd (746) via the route of Muʿādh ibn Muʿādh al-ʿAnbarī and Shuʿayb ibn Isḥāq, from ʿImrān ibn Ḥudayr, with this chain of transmission, with the wording: "Had I been in front of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, I would have seen his armpits," and in his version via Shuʿayb ibn Isḥāq there is an addition: meaning, when he said the takbīr he raised his hands.

Abū Dāwūd placed it in the "Chapter on One Who Mentioned That He Raises His Hands When Rising from the Two Rakʿahs," contrary to how the author titled the hadith regarding the description of prostration.

The whiteness of his armpits, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, could be seen from behind him when he prostrated, as will come in the hadith of Maymūnah, may Allah be pleased with her, at number (1147), and similarly the hadith of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aqram that follows it. And Allah knows best.

(1) His statement "namely Ibn Jaʿfar" is from (R) and (M).
(2) In (M): "and I was."
(3) Its chain of transmission is sound, and it is in al-Sunan al-Kubrā at number (699).

Also recorded by Aḥmad (16401), (16402), and (16403), al-Tirmidhī (274), and Ibn Mājah (881 m) via multiple routes from Dāwūd ibn Qays, with this chain of transmission, in a longer form. Al-Tirmidhī said: A good hadith; we do not know it except from the hadith of Dāwūd ibn Qays, and we do not know of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aqram al-Khuzāʿī having any other hadith from the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, besides this one. And the scholars of knowledge act upon it.

Also recorded by Ibn Mājah (881) from Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah, from Wakīʿ, from Dāwūd ibn Qays, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Aqram, from his father, and he said after it: Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah said: The people say: ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh. (Thus in the al-Risālah edition, and it is the more likely; while in the Muḥammad Fuʾād ʿAbd al-Bāqī edition it reads: The people say: ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUbayd Allāh. And Allah knows best.)

Al-Sindī said: His statement "the whiteness of his armpits" means a whiteness that is not pure, but rather like the color of the earth's surface. He meant the place where the hair of the armpits grows, with the whiteness of the skin mixed with the blackness of the hair. It is as if he was looking during the prayer, and this does not contradict the previous hadith of Abū Hurayrah, because it differs according to the differing positions of people in prayer.