991 — ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to us: ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid and Bishr ibn Bakr narrated to us, from al-Awzāʿī, from Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Qatādah, from his father, who said: The Messenger of Allāh (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Indeed, I stand in prayer intending to lengthen it, but I hear the crying of a child, so I shorten it, disliking to cause hardship upon his mother." (1)

50 — Chapter: The Straightening of the Rows

992 — ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad narrated to us: Wakīʿ narrated to us: al-Aʿmash narrated to us, from al-Musayyab ibn Rāfiʿ, from Tamīm ibn Ṭarafah, from Jābir ibn Samurah al-Suwaʾī, who said: The Messenger of Allāh (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Will you not form rows as the angels form rows before their Lord?" He said: We said: "And how do the angels form rows before their Lord?" He said: "They complete the first rows and stand closely packed together in the row." (2)

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(1) Its chain of transmission is authentic. Al-Awzāʿī: he is ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAmr.
It was also recorded by al-Bukhārī (707) and (868), Abū Dāwūd (789), and al-Nasāʾī 2/95 via the chain of al-Awzāʿī, with this chain of transmission.
It is also in the Musnad of Aḥmad (22602).

(2) Its chain of transmission is authentic. Al-Aʿmash: he is Sulaymān ibn Mihrān.
It was also recorded by Muslim (430), Abū Dāwūd (661), and al-Nasāʾī 2/92 via the chain of al-Aʿmash, with this chain of transmission.
It is also in the Musnad of Aḥmad (20964) and (21024), and in Ṣaḥīḥ Ibn Ḥibbān (2154) and (2162).