Establishing the Prayer and the Sunnah Regarding Them · What is incumbent upon the Imam
Arabic
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ، عَنْ أُمِّ غُرَابٍ، عَنِ امْرَأَةٍ، يُقَالُ لَهَا عَقِيلَةُ عَنْ سَلاَمَةَ بِنْتِ الْحُرِّ، أُخْتِ خَرَشَةَ قَالَتْ سَمِعْتُ النَّبِيَّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ يَقُولُ " يَأْتِي عَلَى النَّاسِ زَمَانٌ يَقُومُونَ سَاعَةً، لاَ يَجِدُونَ إِمَامًا يُصَلِّي بِهِمْ " .
English translation
It was
narrated that Salamah bint Hurr, the sister of Kharashah, said:
“I
heard the Prophet (ﷺ) say: ‘A time will come when the people will
stand for a long time and will not be able to find any Imam to lead
them in prayer.”
Abu Hazim
said: “Sahl bin Sa’d As-Sa’idi used to give preference to
the
young to lead his people in prayer. It was said to him: “Do you do
that, when you have such seniority (in Islam)?” He said: “I heard
the
Messenger o…
It was
narrated from Abu ‘Ali Al-Hamdani that he went out in a ship in
which ‘Uqbah bin ‘Amir Al-Juhani was present. The time for prayer
came, and we told him to lead us in prayer and said to him: “You
are
the most deser…