Darussalam · Volume 1
2. THE BOOK OFAṢ-ṢALĀT (THE PRAYER)Sunan Abi Dawud Darussalam English translation
الحديث: 667 ¦ الجزء: 1 ¦ الصفحة: 179
Source no. 667 · Volume 1 · Page 2
Sahih
صحيح
Source no. 673 · Volume 3 · Page 245
Sahih chain
(قلت: إسناده صحيح على شرط الشيخين، وقال النووي: "إسناده صحيح على شرط مسلم"! وهو قصور)
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667. Anas bin Mālik related that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: "Line yourselves up tightly, and be close together, and make (your) necks straight (in one line). For I swear by Him in Whose Hands is my soul, I see Shaitān enter between the gaps in the rows as if he is a small black goat." (Sahih)
667 - حَدَّثَنَا مُسْلِمُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبَانُ، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ، عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ، عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: «رُصُّوا صُفُوفَكُمْ وَقَارِبُوا بَيْنَهَا وَحَاذُوا بِالْأَعْنَاقِ، فَوَالَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ إِنِّي لَأَرَى الشَّيْطَانَ يَدْخُلُ مِنْ خَلَلِ الصَّفِّ كَأَنَّهَا الْحَذَفُ»
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"Line yourselves up tightly" Al-Khaṭṭābī said: "Its meaning is to bring part of it together with another part, and close in between them. And from it is the compressed building; Allāh said: "...as if they were a solid structure..." [As-Saff 61:4] And it is further explained by the second half; that is, if they are not together, Shaitān will come between them, and this gap through which he enters, destroys the ranks, like a gap between mortars of a structure, which erode it, bringing about its downfall.