Ahmad 6356

Its isnad is sahih. Something similar to it has already passed in Musnad Umar, number 96, from the narration of Ibn Ishaq, "Nafi, his freed slave, narrated to me from him, he said, Abdullah bin Umar used to say, 'If a man has only one garment, let him wrap it around his waist and then pray, for I heard Umar bin Khattab say that, and say, "Do not wrap yourselves in a single garment when it is alone, as the Jews do."'" Nafi said, "If I told you that he attributed that to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, I would hope I had not lied."Abu Dawud also narrated something similar to it, 1:243, from Sulayman bin Harb, from Hammad bin Zayd, from Ayub, from Nafi, from Ibn Umar, who said, "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said," or he said, "Umar said, 'If any of you has two garments, let him pray in them, and if he has only one garment, let him wrap it around his waist and not wrap himself as the Jews wrap themselves.'"Bayhaqi narrated it in Sunan al-Kubra, 2:236, via Sulayman bin Harb, from Hammad bin Zayd, from Ayub, from Nafi, who said, "One day I stayed behind to feed the riding animals, and Ibn Umar came in on me while I was praying in a single garment. He said to me, 'Were you not given two garments to wear?' I said, 'Yes.' He said, 'What do you think, if I sent you to some of the people of Madinah, would you go in a single garment?' I said, 'No.' He said, 'Is Allah more deserving that one adorn oneself for Him, or is it people?'" Then he said, "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said," or "Umar said, 'Whoever has two garments, let him pray in them, and whoever has only one garment, let him wrap it around his waist and not wrap himself as the Jews wrap themselves.'"Then he narrated it via Abu Rabi, "Hammad bin Zayd narrated to us, Ayub narrated to us from Nafi," who said, "I stayed behind for him to feed the riding animals," and he mentioned the hadith, then said, "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said," or "Umar said," though he added, "I am fairly certain he said, 'The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Let one of you pray in two garments, and if he finds only one garment, let him wrap it around his waist and not wrap himself as the Jews wrap themselves."'"Then Bayhaqi said following this, "Layth bin Saad also narrated it from Nafi in this way, with the same uncertainty."Bayhaqi also narrated it before that via Saeed bin Amir Dubai, from Saeed [that is, Ibn Abu Aruba], from Ayub, from Nafi, who said, "Ibn Umar saw me praying in a single garment and said, 'Did I not clothe you?' I said, 'Yes.' He said, 'Well, if I had sent you somewhere, would you go like this?' I said, 'No.' He said, 'Is Allah not more deserving that one adorn oneself for Him?'" Then he said, "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, 'When one of you prays in a single garment, let him tie it around his waist, and let him not wrap himself as the Jews wrap themselves.'"Bayhaqi also narrated this, 2:235–236, via Anas bin Iyad, from Musa bin Uqba, from Nafi, from Abdullah, and Nafi held it to be nothing other than from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, who said, "When one of you prays, let him wear his two garments, for Allah is more deserving that one adorn oneself for Him. If he has no two garments, let him wrap one around his waist when he prays, and let none of you wrap himself in his prayer as the Jews wrap themselves."Bayhaqi narrated it before this, 2:235, in abridged form with two chains, via Shuba, from Tawba Anbari, who heard Nafi, from Ibn Umar, from the Prophet ﷺ, who said, "When one of you prays, let him wrap a garment around his waist and drape another over his shoulders."All these narrations, together with the narration in the Musnad (number 96) in Musnad Umar, show that Nafi was, on many occasions, unsure whether the hadith should be attributed to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, while on other occasions he was almost certain in attributing it to him, and at times his uncertainty settled into certainty that it went no further than the companion himself.Ibn Jurayj's narration from him here likewise shows that he narrated it to him with certainty, except that it was Ibn Jurayj who was uncertain about the attribution, whether Nafi told him it was from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ or from Umar. This is based on Ibn Jurayj's own words, "Nafi, the one who said this, was certain of it." He then indicated that it was he himself, meaning Ibn Jurayj, who was uncertain about the attribution, saying, "I am certain it was one of the two," and then Ibn Jurayj leaned toward attributing it to the Prophet, saying, "I think it is nothing other than from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ."What I consider more likely, reconciling Ibn Jurayj's narration with the other narrations from Nafi, is that Nafi narrated it from Ibn Umar from Umar, just as he narrated it to Ibn Ishaq in the preceding Musnad narration (number 96), and then mentioned to Ibn Jurayj something similar to what he had mentioned to Ibn Ishaq, namely that he thought Ibn Umar had attributed this to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. From this uncertainty that arose in his mind, Ibn Jurayj came away with the impression that Nafi had narrated it to him from Ibn Umar from Umar, or with mention of Umar in connection with attributing the hadith to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.So it would be a narration of Ibn Umar from his father, attributed to the Prophet. We hold this attribution to be sound, relying on Nafi's predominant view that it was attributed to the Prophet, supported by the fact that on some occasions his certainty about the attribution was firm and his uncertainty about it disappeared entirely.This is also because its meaning is established as attributed to the Prophet through the hadith of Abu Hurairah and Abu Saeed, in Bukhari and Muslim and others, as will come in Muntaqa 673–678.Regarding his words, "wrap himself as the Jews wrap themselves," Khattabi said in Maalim Sunan (number 1507, printed together with Munziri's abridgment), "The wrapping of the Jews that is prohibited is that a man cover his body with the garment and let it hang down without lifting either of its two ends. As for the wrapping mentioned in the hadith [meaning in another hadith], it is that he cover his body with the garment and then lift both its ends over his left shoulder, as explained in that hadith."Ibn Athir said, "Ishtimal (wrapping) is a form derived from shimlah, which is a wrap used to cover and wrap oneself in. What is prohibited is covering the body with the garment and letting it hang down without lifting its end."Regarding his words, "tawashshuh," it means to cover one's body with two garments. Ibn Athir said, "Its root is from wishah, which is a broad band of leather, sometimes studded with jewels and beads, which a woman ties between her shoulders and her sides, and it is said both wishah and wushah. What is meant is resemblance in fullness of covering, not in the outward appearance of women's clothing, for it is forbidden for men to resemble women in their dress, as is well established."