Hadith 413

What Has Been Related About 'The First Thing The Slave (Of Allāh) Will Be Reckoned For On The Day Of Judgement Is The Ṣalāt'

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Darussalam · Volume 1

2. The Chapters On Ṣalāt (As Narrated) From Allāh's Messenger ﷺ

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Source no. 413 · Volume 1 · Page 413
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صحيح، ابن ماجة (١٤٢٥ - ١٤٢٦)

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413. Huraith bin Qabiṣah narrated: "I arrived in Al-Madīnah and said: 'O Allāh! Facilitate me to be in a righteous gathering.'" He said: "I sat with Abū Hurairah and said: 'Indeed I asked Allāh to provide me with a righteous gathering. So narrate a Hadīth to me which you heard from Allāh's Messenger ﷺ so that perhaps Allāh would cause me to benefit from it.' He said: 'I heard Allāh's Messenger ﷺ say: "Indeed the first deed by which a servant will be called to account on the Day of Resurrection is his Ṣalāt. If it is complete, he is successful and saved, but if it is defective, he has failed and lost. So if something is deficient in his obligatory (prayers) then the Lord, Mighty and Sublime says: 'Look! Is there any voluntary (prayers) for my worshipper?' So with them, what was deficient in his obligatory (prayers) will be completed. Then the rest of his deeds will be treated like that." (Saḥīḥ) [He said:] There is a narration on this topic from Tamīm Ad-Dārī. Abū 'Eisā said: The Hadīth of Abū Hurairah is a Ḥasan Gharīb Hadīth from this route. This Hadīth has been narrated through a different chain of narrators from Abū Hurairah. (Not Huraith ibn Qabiṣah). Some of the companions of Al-Hasan (who narrated this) narrated another Hadīth from him, "from Qabiṣah bin Huraith." What is popular is that he is Qabiṣah bin Huraith. Something similar to this has been narrated by Anas bin Ḥakīm from Abū Hurairah, from the Prophet ﷺ.

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٤١٣ - حَدَّثَنَا ‌عَلِيُّ بْنُ نَصْرِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ الْجَهْضَمِيُّ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا ‌سَهْلُ بْنُ حَمَّادٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا ‌هَمَّامٌ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي ‌قَتَادَةُ ، عَنِ ‌الْحَسَنِ ، عَنْ ‌حُرَيْثِ بْنِ قَبِيصَةَ قَالَ: «قَدِمْتُ الْمَدِينَةَ» فَقُلْتُ: اللَّهُمَّ يَسِّرْ لِي جَلِيسًا صَالِحًا، قَالَ: فَجَلَسْتُ إِلَى ‌أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ فَقُلْتُ: إِنِّي سَأَلْتُ اللهَ أَنْ يَرْزُقَنِي جَلِيسًا صَالِحًا، فَحَدِّثْنِي بِحَدِيثٍ سَمِعْتَهُ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ لَعَلَّ اللهَ أَنْ يَنْفَعَنِي بِهِ؟ فَقَال: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ: إِنَّ أَوَّلَ مَا يُحَاسَبُ بِهِ الْعَبْدُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ مِنْ عَمَلِهِ صَلَاتُهُ، فَإِنْ صَلَحَتْ فَقَدْ أَفْلَحَ وَأَنْجَحَ، وَإِنْ فَسَدَتْ فَقَدْ خَابَ وَخَسِرَ، فَإِنِ انْتَقَصَ مِنْ فَرِيضَتِهِ شَيْءٌ قَالَ الرَّبُّ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى: انْظُرُوا هَلْ لِعَبْدِي مِنْ تَطَوُّعٍ فَيُكَمَّلَ بِهَا مَا انْتَقَصَ مِنَ الْفَرِيضَةِ، ثُمَّ يَكُونُ سَائِرُ عَمَلِهِ عَلَى ذَلِكَ. وَفِي الْبَابِ عَنْ تَمِيمٍ الدَّارِيِّ. حَدِيثُ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ غَرِيبٌ مِنْ هَذَا الْوَجْهِ. وَقَدْ رُوِيَ هَذَا الْحَدِيثُ مِنْ غَيْرِ هَذَا الْوَجْهِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ. وَقَدْ رَوَى بَعْضُ أَصْحَابِ الْحَسَنِ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، عَنْ قَبِيصَةَ بْنِ حُرَيْثٍ غَيْرَ هَذَا الْحَدِيثِ، وَالْمَشْهُورُ هُوَ قَبِيصَةُ بْنُ حُرَيْثٍ. وَرُوِيَ عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ حَكِيمٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ نَحْوُ هَذَا.

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This Hadīth teaches that on the Day of Judgement the prayer of a person will be the measuring scale and touchstone for the deeds of his whole life, and his whole life will be examined with this touchstone. If he succeeds in prayer he will secure success, prosperity and deliverance, otherwise he will face failure, disappointment and loss.