25 - Chapter on Sending Blessings upon the Prophet ﷺ

903 - Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us, Khālid ibn Makhlad narrated to us (another chain): and Muhammad ibn al-Muthannā narrated to us, Abū ʿĀmir narrated to us; they both said: ʿAbdullāh ibn Jaʿfar narrated to us, from Yazīd ibn al-Hād, from ʿAbdullāh ibn Khabbāb, from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, who said: We said: "O Messenger of Allāh, we know how to greet you with salām, but how do we send blessings upon you?" He said: "Say: 'O Allāh, send blessings upon Muhammad, Your servant and Your Messenger, just as You sent blessings upon Ibrāhīm, and bless Muhammad and the family of Muhammad just as You blessed Ibrāhīm.'"

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As for the narration of Ayman ibn Nābil, it was reported by al-Nasāʾī (2/243 and 3/43), Abū Yaʿlā (2232), al-Ṭaḥāwī (1/264), al-Ḥākim (1/266-267 and 267), and al-Bayhaqī (2/141 and 142) via multiple routes from him, with this chain. Al-Nasāʾī said in the second place: "We do not know of anyone who followed Ayman ibn Nābil on this narration, and Ayman is in our view acceptable, but the ḥadīth is erroneous."

In addition to al-Nasāʾī, more than one of the ḥuffāẓ declared Ayman ibn Nābil mistaken, including al-Bukhārī, as transmitted from him by al-Tirmidhī in "al-ʿIlal al-Kabīr" (1/226), Muslim in "al-Tamyīz" following ḥadīth (58), al-Tirmidhī in his "Jāmiʿ" following ḥadīth (290), and al-Dāraquṭnī, as in "Hady al-Sārī" (p. 392). We have mentioned their statements in our commentary on "Jāmiʿ al-Tirmidhī."

(1) Its chain is authentic. Abū ʿĀmir: he is ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿAmr al-ʿAqadī.

It was also reported by al-Bukhārī (4798) and (6358), and al-Nasāʾī (3/49) via the route of Yazīd ibn al-Hād, with this chain.

Al-Bukhārī (4798) also reported it in suspended form with an affirmative formula from Abū Ṣāliḥ, from al-Layth, from Yazīd ibn al-Hād, with it.

It is in "Musnad Aḥmad" (11433).

His statement: "We know how to greet you with salām" means: Allāh the Exalted has commanded us to send blessings and salām upon you, so the salām is known to us and we are able to act upon it. What is meant is that it is like the greeting of some of us to others.