English translation
267. Abū Hurairah narrated that Allāh's Messenger ﷺ said: "When the Imām says: (Sami' Allāhu liman ḥamidah) 'Allāh listens to those who praise Him. Then (all of you) say: (Rabbanā wa lakal-ḥamd) 'O our Lord! And to You is the praise for whoever's saying concurs with the saying of the angels, then his past sins will be forgiven." (Ṣaḥīḥ) Abū 'Eisā said: This Hadīth is Ḥasan Ṣaḥīḥ. It is acted upon by some of the people of knowledge among the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ and those after them. The Imām is to say: (Sami' Allāhu liman ḥamidah. [Rabbanā wa lakal-ḥamd]) "Allāh listens to those who praise Him. [O our Lord! And to You is the praise.]" And those that are behind him say: (Rabbanā wa lakal-ḥamd) "O our Lord! And to You is the praise." This is the saying of Aḥmad. Ibn Sirīn and others said that those behind the Imām say: (Sami' Allāhu liman ḥamidah. Rabbanā wa lakal-ḥamd) "Allāh listens to those who praise Him. O our Lord! And to You is the praise. The same as the Imām says, and this is also the view of Ash-Shāfi'ī and Ishāq.
