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336. Zaid bin Khālid Al-Juhnī sent a message to Abū Juhaim asking him what he had heard from Allāh's Messenger ﷺ about passing in front of a person who was performing Ṣalāt. Abū Juhaim said that Allāh's Messenger ﷺ said: "If the one who passed in front of the person performing Ṣalāt knew what he was doing, then for him to stop (and wait for forty) would be better for him than to pass in front of him." (Ṣaḥīḥ)
Abū An-Naḍr (one of the narrators) said: "I don't know if he said forty days, months, or years."
[Abū 'Eisā]: There are narrations on this topic from Abū Sa'eed Al-Khudrī, Abū Hurairah, Ibn 'Umar, and 'Abdullāh bin 'Amr.
Abū 'Eisā said: The Hadīth of Abū Juhaim is a Ḥasan Ṣaḥīḥ Hadīth.
It has been related that the Prophet ﷺ said: "It would be better for one of you to stop (and wait) for a hundred years than to pass in front of his brother while he is performing Ṣalāt."
This is acted upon according to the people of knowledge. They dislike passing in front of the person who is performing Ṣalāt, but they do not think that doing so would sever the man's Ṣalāt.
[Abū An-Naḍr's name is Sālim, the freed slave of 'Umar bin 'Ubaidullāh Al-Madīnī.]
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Commentary
Passing from the front will be considered, if one passes from the place between the person offering prayer and the place of prostration and it disturbs the person praying. The minimum limit of the distance, according to some scholars, is the distance of three rows.
