1597 — “When one of you is in prayer, he is conversing privately with his Lord. So do not raise your voices in recitation of the Quran and thereby disturb the believers.”

Al-Baghawī narrated it in Ḥadīth ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd (8/75/1) from Shuʿbah, who said: ʿAbd Rabbih narrated to us from Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, from a man of Banū Bayāḍah. In another version, he said: ʿAbd Rabbih ibn Saʿīd informed me: I heard Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm narrate from Abū Salamah, from a man of Banū Bayāḍah. In yet another version, he said: I heard ʿAbd Rabbih narrate from Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, from Abū Ḥāzim. Shuʿbah said: Then ʿAbd Rabbih said: from Salamah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from a man of Banū Bayāḍah, that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, observed retreat during the ten days of Ramadan and said—then he cited the hadith.

I say: This is a weak chain of transmission for two reasons:

First, the man from Banū Bayāḍah is unnamed and is therefore unknown. Moreover, none of these routes indicates that he was one of the Companions.

Second, ʿAbd Rabbih ibn Saʿīd was inconsistent in its chain of transmission in these four versions:

The first: from Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, from a man of Banū Bayāḍah.

The second: from Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, from Abū Salamah, from a man of Banū Bayāḍah. Thus, he inserted Abū Salamah between him and the man.

The third: from him, from Abū Ḥāzim. He did not mention the man, and named Abū Ḥāzim in place of Abū Salamah.

The fourth: from him, from Salamah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from a man of Banū Bayāḍah. This is like the second version, except that he said Salamah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān in place of Abū Salamah, who was Ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān. This is a serious inconsistency, indicating that the narrator did not preserve the hadith accurately.