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230. Hilāl bin Yasāf said: "Ziyād bin Abī Al-Ja'd took me by the hand while we were in Ar-Raqqah,[1] he made me stand before a Shaikh who was called Wābiṣah bin Ma'bad, from Banī Asad. Ziyād said: 'This Shaikh narrated to me that a man prayed alone behind the row' – and the Shaikh was listening – 'so Allāh's Messenger ﷺ ordered him to repeat the Ṣalāt.'" (Ṣaḥīḥ)
[Abū 'Eisā said:] There are narrations on this topic from 'Alī bin Shaibān and Ibn 'Abbās.
Abū 'Eisā said: The Hadīth of Wābiṣah is a Ḥasan Hadīth.
There are those among the people of knowledge who dislike for a man to pray alone behind the rows. They say he is to repeat his prayer when he prays alone behind the rows. This is the opinion of Aḥmad and Iṣhāq.
There are those among the people
of knowledge who said that it is acceptable from him if he prays alone behind the row.
This is the saying of Sufyān Ath-Thawrī, Ibn Al-Mubārak, and Ash-Shāfi'i.
There are those among the people of Al-Kūfah who held a view in accordance with the Hadīth of Wābiṣah bin Ma'bad as well. They said that whoever prays alone behind the row, should repeat the prayer. Among them are Hammād bin Sulaimān, Ibn Abī Laila, and Waki'.
More than one person has reported the narration of Ḥuṣain, from Hilāl bin Yasāf, from Ziyād bin Abī Al-Ja'd, from Wābiṣah [bin Ma'bad], and it is similar to the narration of Abū Al-Aḥwaṣ (a narrator in this chain of Hadīth).
The narration of Ḥuṣain contains what would prove that Hilāl saw Wābiṣah, but the people of Hadīth differ over this:
Some of them say that the narration of 'Amr bin Murrah from Hilāl bin Yasāf, from 'Amr bin Rāshid, from Wābiṣah [bin Ma'bad] is more correct.
Some of them say that the narration of Ḥuṣain, from Hilāl bin Yasāf, from Ziyād bin Abī Al-Ja'd, from Wābiṣah bin Ma'bad is more correct.
Abū 'Eisā said: This is more correct to me than the narration of 'Amr bin Murrah because it has been narrated by others besides Hilāl bin Yasāf from Ziyād bin Abī
Al-Ja'd, from Wābiṣah bin Ma'bad.
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[1] A city located in the northern part of modern Syria, on the eastern side of the Euphrates.
Commentary
The authentic view about this issue is that standing individually for prayer behind the row is prohibited. He, who does so despite there being space in the row, will have to repeat the prayer. However, if the space is not available in the row and he offers the prayer standing on his own individually, it is hoped his prayer is valid. The opinion of pulling a person from the row and to make him stand alongside is mentioned in some Aḥādīth, but these Aḥādīth are Weak and unreliable for proof. Therefore the opinion of pulling someone from the line ahead is incorrect. [See for details, Ad-Ḍa'ifah, 2: 322, 323]
