English translation
678. Abū Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: "The best rows for men are the front ones, and the worst are the last ones. And the best rows for women are the last ones, and the worst are the front ones." (Sahih)
Hadith 678
Rows For The Women, And Their Distance From The First Row
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Darussalam · Volume 1
2. THE BOOK OFAṢ-ṢALĀT (THE PRAYER)Sunan Abi Dawud Darussalam English translation
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الحديث: 678 ¦ الجزء: 1 ¦ الصفحة: 181
Al-Albani source references (2)
- صحيح وضعيف سنن أبي داود (opens in a new tab)
Source no. 678 · Volume 1 · Page 2
Sahih
صحيح
- صحيح سنن أبي داود ط غراس (opens in a new tab)
Source no. 681 · Volume 3 · Page 257
Sahih chain
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Arabic text
678 - حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الصَّبَّاحِ الْبَزَّازُ، حَدَّثَنَا خَالِدٌ، وَإِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ زَكَرِيَّاءَ، عَنْ سُهَيْلِ بْنِ أَبِي صَالِحٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «خَيْرُ صُفُوفِ الرِّجَالِ أَوَّلُهَا وَشَرُّهَا آخِرُهَا، وَخَيْرُ صُفُوفِ النِّسَاءِ آخِرُهَا وَشَرُّهَا أَوَّلُهَا»
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Commentary
An-Nawawī said: "As for the men's rows, then it is according to the generality; so the best of them is always the first of them, and the worst of them is always the last of them. As for the rows of the women, then the objective of the Hadīth is that of the rows that the women pray in with the men, as for when they pray separately, not with the men, then just like in the case of the men, the best of their rows are the first of them, and the worst of them are the last of them. And the meaning of the worst of the rows in the case of the women and the men, is the least of them in reward and virtue. And the last of the rows of the women when attending with the men, are only more virtuous, because of their distancing themselves from mixing with the men and their sight, and the heart being attached to them when seeing their movements and hearing their speech, and similar to that, and the first of their rows has been censured because of the opposite of that. And Allāh knows best...." See no. 851 for a related topic.