Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ - Shams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi - (9/578)

Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

It was said to the judge—while I was present—in the year 317 AH:

“Did Aḥmad ibn Manṣūr ibn Sayyār relate to you, saying: ‘ʿAbd al-Razzaq narrated to us; Maʿmar reported to us from al-Zuhrī, who was told by Anas, who said:

‘On the night the Prophet ﷺ was taken on the Night Journey, fifty prayers were made obligatory upon him; they were then reduced to five, and a herald proclaimed, ‘O Muḥammad! My word is not changed with Me; with these five you shall have the reward of fifty.’ (1)’”

Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad the scribe, and ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn ʿAbd al-Muḥsin also informed us, saying:

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Makkī informed us; my grandfather, Abū Ṭāhir the ḥāfiẓ, informed us; Makkī ibn Manṣūr informed us; Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan the judge informed us; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Maʿqil narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Dhuhlī narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Razzaq narrated to us, from Maʿmar, from al-Zuhrī, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said:

“Fifty prayers were enjoined upon the Messenger of Allah ﷺ on the night he was taken on the Night Journey; they were then reduced until they became five, and a caller proclaimed, ‘O Muḥammad! My word is not altered with Me; with these five you shall have the reward of fifty.’”

Al-Tirmidhī also transmitted it on the authority of al-Dhuhlī (2).

Abū al-Maʿālī al-Hamadhānī informed us; Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf and al-Fatḥ ibn ʿAbd Allah likewise informed us—through a separate chain.

ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Munʿim informed us; Abū al-Yaman al-Kindī informed us; they said that Muḥammad ibn al-Qāḍī, through another chain, informed us as well.

Aḥmad ibn Hibat Allah ibn Tāj al-Umanāʾ likewise informed us, from

(1) The chain of transmission is sound; the report is found in al-Musannaf, no. 1768. See also the narration that follows it. (2) Hadith no. 213 in the chapter on Prayer: “What obligatory prayers Allah has prescribed for His servants.” This same report, through another chain, is part of the longer israaʾ narrative and is also recorded by al-Bukhari, 6/217 and 6/220 (Book of the Beginning of Creation, chapter: Mention of the Angels; and Book of the Virtues of the Companions, chapter: The Miʿraj), by Muslim, no. 162 (Book of Faith, chapter: The Night Journey of the Messenger of Allah to the heavens and the prescription of the prayers), and by al-Nasai, 1/217 and 1/223 (Book of Prayer, chapter: The prescription of the prayer).

القَاضِي - وَأَنَا أَسْمَعُ - فِي سَنَةِ سَبْعَ عَشْرَةَ وَثَلاَثِ مائَةٍ، قِيْلَ لَهُ: حَدَّثَكُم أَحْمَدُ بنُ مَنْصُوْرِ بنِ سَيَّارٍ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ، أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ، عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ، أَخْبَرَنِي أَنَسٌ، قَالَ: فُرِضَتْ عَلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ لَيْلَةَ أُسْرِيَ بِهِ الصَّلَوَاتُ خَمْسِيْنَ، ثُمَّ نَقَصَتْ إِلَى خَمْسٍ، ثُمَّ نُودِيَ: (يَا مُحَمَّدُ! إِنَّهُ لاَ يُبَدَّلُ القَوْلُ لَدَيَّ، وَإِنَّ لَكَ بِالخَمْسِ خَمْسِيْنَ (١)) . وَأَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، وَمُحَمَّدُ بنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الكَاتِبُ، وَعَبْدُ الرَّحِيْمِ بنُ عَبْدِ المُحْسِنِ، قَالُوا: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بنُ مَكِّيٍّ، أَخْبَرَنَا جَدِّي؛ أَبُو طَاهِرٍ الحَافِظُ، أَخْبَرَنَا مَكِّيُّ بنُ مَنْصُوْرٍ، أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بنُ الحَسَنِ القَاضِي، حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بنُ أَحْمَدَ بنِ مَعْقِلٍ، حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بنُ يَحْيَى الذُّهْلِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ، عَنْ مَعْمَرٍ، عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ، عَنْ أَنَسِ بنِ مَالِكٍ، قَالَ: فُرِضَتْ عَلَى رَسُوْلِ اللهِ ﷺ لَيْلَةَ أُسْرِيَ بِهِ الصَّلَوَاتُ خَمْسِيْنَ، ثُمَّ نَقَصَتْ حَتَّى جُعِلَتْ خَمْساً، ثُمَّ نُودِيَ: (يَا مُحَمَّدُ! إِنَّهُ لاَ يُبَدَّلُ القَوْلُ لَدَيَّ، وَإِنَّ لَكَ بِهَذِهِ الخَمْسِ خَمْسِيْنَ) . أَخْرَجَه: التِّرْمِذِيُّ، عَنِ الذُّهْلِيِّ (٢) . أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو المَعَالِي الهَمَذَانِيُّ، أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بنُ يُوْسُفَ، وَالفَتْحُ بنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ (ح) . وَأَخْبَرَنَا عُمَرُ بنُ عَبْدِ المُنْعِمِ، أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو اليُمْنِ الكِنْدِيُّ، قَالُوا: أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بنُ القَاضِي (ح) . وَأَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بنُ هِبَةِ اللهِ بنِ تَاجِ الأُمَنَاءِ، عَنْ

(١) إسناده صحيح، وهو في " المصنف " (١٧٦٨) ، وانظر ما بعده. (٢) رقم (٢١٣) في الصلاة: باب ما جاءكم فرض الله على عباده من الصلوات، وهو من طريق آخر من حديث الاسراء الطويل أخرجه البخاري ٦ / ٢١٧، ٢٢٠، في بدء الخلق: باب ذكر الملائكة، وفي فضائل أصحاب النبي ﷺ: باب المعراج، ومسلم (١٦٢) في الايمان: باب الاسراء برسول الله ﷺ إلى السماوات وفرض الصلوات، والنسائي ١ / ٢١٧، ٢٢٣ في الصلاة: باب فرض الصلاة.