141 - Chapter: The Prayer of One Who Sits Is Half the Prayer of One Who Stands

1229 - 'Uthman ibn Abi Shaybah narrated to us, Yahya ibn Adam narrated to us, Qutbah narrated to us, from al-A'mash, from Habib ibn Abi Thabit, from 'Abdullah ibn Babah, from 'Abdullah ibn 'Amr: That the Prophet ﷺ passed by him while he was praying sitting down, and said: "The prayer of one who sits is half the prayer of one who stands." (1)

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(1) A sound hadith. This chain of transmission differs regarding Habib ibn Abi Thabit. Al-A'mash narrated it here, and al-Tabarani in "al-Awsat" (338), from him, from 'Abdullah ibn Babah, from 'Abdullah ibn 'Amr.

Sufyan al-Thawri also narrated it from him, and there is disagreement regarding it:
- Mu'awiyah ibn Hisham narrated it from him, as recorded by al-Nasa'i in "al-Kubra" (1373), from Habib, from Mujahid, from 'Abdullah ibn 'Amr.
- Waki' narrated it from him, as recorded by Ahmad (6808), and Abu Nu'aym from him, as recorded by al-Nasa'i (1374), from a shaykh known as Abu Musa, from 'Abdullah ibn 'Amr. This Abu Musa is unknown. And Sufyan doubted whether it was raised to the Prophet in Waki's narration from him.
- Ibn Mahdi narrated it from him, as recorded by al-Nasa'i (1375), from Habib, from Abu Musa, from 'Abdullah ibn 'Amr, as a stopped narration (mawquf).

Abu Hatim in "al-Jarh wa al-Ta'dil" 9/438 favored the narration of Sufyan over that of al-A'mash, saying: al-Thawri is more precise. We say: Sufyan did not mention in any of the narrations from him that the Prophet ﷺ passed by 'Abdullah...

Al-Nasa'i also recorded it (1376) via al-Zuhri, from 'Isa ibn Talhah, from 'Abdullah ibn 'Amr, raised to the Prophet. He said: This is an error; the correct version is al-Zuhri from 'Abdullah ibn 'Amr as a disconnected narration (mursal). We say: Malik recorded the disconnected narration in 1/136 from al-Zuhri.

Muslim (735), Abu Dawud (950), and al-Nasa'i in "al-Kubra" (1365) — and it is in "al-Mujtaba" 3/223 — also recorded it via Hilal ibn Yasaf, from Abu Yahya, from 'Abdullah =