Thus, his words, “for Allah,” mean: sincerely for His sake. This is strong supporting evidence for the words:
“seeking thereby neither ostentation nor reputation.”
A hadith to the same effect is reported from Ibn ʿAbbās, attributed to the Prophet, with the wording:
“Whoever builds a mosque seen by Allah, Allah will build for him a house in Paradise...”
Al-Ṭabarānī also recorded it in al-Awsaṭ (9/216/8471), through ʿImrān ibn ʿUbayd Allāh—the client of ʿUbayd al-Ṣayd—who said: “I heard al-Ḥakam ibn Abān narrate from ʿIkrimah, from Ibn ʿAbbās...”
Concerning this ʿImrān, al-Haythamī said (2/8):
“Al-Bukhārī mentioned him in his History and said: ‘There is something questionable about him.’ Ibn Maʿīn also declared him weak, while Ibn Ḥibbān included him among the trustworthy narrators.”
In his documentation of the preceding hadith of ʿĀʾishah, he said:
“It was narrated by al-Bazzār and, in abbreviated form, by al-Ṭabarānī in al-Awsaṭ. Its chain contains Kathīr ibn ʿAbd Allāh, whom al-ʿUqaylī declared weak; Ibn Ḥibbān, however, included him among the trustworthy narrators.”
Ibn Abī Ḥātim made no comment about him (3/1/301).
In summary, the hadith is good or authentic in view of these supporting reports. And Allah knows best.
- “There is no one who prays except that he is conversing privately with his Lord; so let none of you raise his voice over another in recitation.”
Al-Nasāʾī recorded it in al-Sunan al-Kubrā (2/264/3360), and Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr in