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Regarding Dismounting At Camps

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Darussalam · Volume 3

15. The Book Of Jihād

Sunan Abi Dawud Darussalam English translation

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الحديث: 2551 ¦ الجزء: 3 ¦ الصفحة: 24

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2551. Anas bin Mālik said: "Whenever we dismounted at a camp, we would not perform any voluntary prayer (Nusabbih) until we let the mounts graze."[1]

Arabic text

2551 - حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى، حَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ، حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ، عَنْ حَمْزَةَ الضَّبِيِّ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَنَسَ بْنَ مَالِكٍ، قَالَ: «كُنَّا إِذَا نَزَلْنَا مَنْزِلًا لَا نُسَبِّحُ حَتَّى تُحَلَّ الرِّحَالُ»

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    [1] Commentaries on Sunan Abū Dāwūd explain that Nusabbih means perform voluntary prayer. This is the statement of Al-Khaṭṭābī and it is cited by Al-'Azīmābādī in 'Awn Al-Ma'būd. In 'Amal Al-Yawm wal-Lailah, Ibn As-Sunni narrated it from a different route, from Shu'bah (who narrated this version), and after it: "Meaning we said the Tasbih with

Commentary

Based upon this narration, scholars consider it desirable that when a person halts to camp, he should give fodder to the animal before he himself takes his meal.