English translation
543. It was reported from Kahmas, who said: "We stood up to pray while we were at Minā, but the Imām did not come out. Some of us then sat down. An old man from Al-Kūfah said to me: 'Why have you sat down?' I responded: 'Ibn Buraidah (told me to do so).' He said: 'This is laziness!' Then he said: 'Abdur-Raḥmān bin Awsajah narrated to me that Al-Barā' bin Āzib said: "We would stand up in (our) rows for long periods of time during the lifetime of the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ, before he would say the Takbīr.. And he (the Prophet ﷺ) said: 'Allāh and His angels send their Salāt upon those who stand up in the front rows, and there is no step that is more pleasing to Allāh than a step that (a person takes) to fill (a gap) in another row.” (Da’if)