The practice is followed according to this by most of the people of knowledge among the Successors and others.

There has been discussion concerning the chain of transmission of the hadith of Abu Sa'id. Yahya ibn Sa'id used to criticize Ali ibn Ali, and Ahmad said: This hadith is not authentic.

241 - Al-Hasan ibn Arafah and Yahya ibn Musa narrated to us, they said: Abu Mu'awiyah narrated to us, from Harithah ibn Abi al-Rijal, from Amrah, from Aishah, who said: When the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, began the prayer, he would say:

= In "al-Awsat" 3/82. Its narrators are trustworthy, except that there is a break in the chain.

Abd al-Razzaq (2558) also narrated it from Ibn Jurayj, who said: One whom I consider truthful narrated to me, from Abu Bakr, from Umar, from Uthman, and from Ibn Mas'ud: that when they began the prayer, they would say: Glory be to You, O Allah, and with Your praise...

Ibn Abi Shaybah also narrated it from Ibn Mas'ud, who said: Among the most beloved words to Allah is that a man should say: Glory be to You, O Allah, and with Your praise, and blessed is Your name, and exalted is Your majesty, and there is no god but You. My Lord, I have wronged myself, so forgive me, for none forgives sins but You. Its chain of transmission is authentic.

(1) The word "most" has been added by us from (L) and the commentaries of Ibn Sayyid al-Nas and al-Mubarakfuri, and it does not appear in the rest of our manuscript sources.

(2) What is transmitted from Yahya ibn Sa'id, as in "Tahdhib al-Kamal," is that he used to say about this Ali ibn Ali: that he held the view of Qadar (divine decree). This is not a disparagement, as is clarified in the introduction to "al-Tahrir." Yahya ibn Ma'in, Abu Zur'ah, Muhammad ibn Abdullah ibn Ammar, and Waki' declared him trustworthy, and Ahmad ibn Hanbal, al-Nasa'i, and Abu Hatim said: There is no harm in him.

(3) It is mentioned in "Masa'il al-Imam Ahmad" in the narration of his son Abdullah 1/247: Ahmad said: I choose to begin the prayer with "Glory be to You, O Allah, and with Your praise, and blessed is Your name, and exalted is Your majesty, and there is no god but You. I seek refuge with Allah from the accursed Satan, for Allah is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing." This is more pleasing to me, and the hadith of Abu al-Mutawakkil, from Abu Sa'id, it is as if he did not approve of its chain of transmission.