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About The Imām Praying While Sitting Down

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Darussalam · Volume 1

2. THE BOOK OFAṢ-ṢALĀT (THE PRAYER)

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الحديث: 602 ¦ الجزء: 1 ¦ الصفحة: 164

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602. Jābir narrated: "Once the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ rode a horse in Al-Madīnah, but it threw him off of it, (and he fell onto) the stump of a palm tree, which caused his foot to become dislocated. We went to visit him, and found him in a storage-room belonging to 'Aishah, sitting down and praying. We stood behind him (in prayer), and he did not say anything to us. Then we went to visit him for a second time, and he prayed the obligatory prayer sitting down. When we stood behind him, he motioned to us (to sit down), so we sat. When he finished the prayer, he said: 'If the Imām prays sitting down, then all of you should pray sitting down, and if the Imām prays standing up, then pray standing up. And do not do like the people of Persia do with their dignitaries.'"(Sahih)

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602 - حَدَّثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا جَرِيرٌ، وَوَكِيعٌ، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ، عَنْ جَابِرٍ، قَالَ: رَكِبَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَرَسًا بِالْمَدِينَةِ فَصَرَعَهُ عَلَى جِذْمِ نَخْلَةٍ فَانْفَكَّتْ قَدَمُهُ، فَأَتَيْنَاهُ نَعُودُهُ، فَوَجَدْنَاهُ فِي مَشْرُبَةٍ لِعَائِشَةَ يُسَبِّحُ جَالِسًا، قَالَ: فَقُمْنَا خَلْفَهُ فَسَكَتَ عَنَّا، ثُمَّ أَتَيْنَاهُ مَرَّةً أُخْرَى، نَعُودُهُ فَصَلَّى الْمَكْتُوبَةَ جَالِسًا، فَقُمْنَا خَلْفَهُ فَأَشَارَ إِلَيْنَا، فَقَعَدْنَا، قَالَ: فَلَمَّا قَضَى الصَّلَاةَ، قَالَ: «إِذَا صَلَّى الْإِمَامُ جَالِسًا فَصَلُّوا جُلُوسًا، وَإِذَا صَلَّى الْإِمَامُ قَائِمًا فَصَلُّوا قِيَامًا، وَلَا تَفْعَلُوا كَمَا يَفْعَلُ أَهْلُ فَارِسَ بِعُظَمَائِهَا»

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