Azami 10890

Abu Dawud (1486) narrated it from Sulayman bin Abdul-Hameed Bahrani, who said, I read it in the manuscript of Ismail, meaning Ibn Ayyash, Damdam narrated to me, from Shurayh, Abu Zabya narrated to us, that Abu Bahriyya Sakuni told him, from Malik bin Yasar, and he mentioned it.Abu Dawud said, Sulayman bin Abdul-Hameed said, "He has companionship with us," meaning Malik bin Yasar. I say, he mentioned him among the companions, and this hadith of his was reported by Baghawi in Mujam Sahaba (2082), Ibn Qani in Mujam Sahaba (3/47), and Abu Naeem in Marifat Sahaba (6024), all of them through routes from Ismail bin Ayyash with this wording. Its chain is hasan on account of Ismail bin Ayyash, for his hadith is hasan when he narrates from the people of his own land, as is the case here. His teacher Damdam is Ibn Zura Hadrami Himsi, who is disputed, Ibn Main deemed him reliable while Abu Hatim weakened him, and Ibn Hibban mentioned him among the trustworthy, so someone like him has his hadith graded hasan. The rest of the men in the chain are reliable. Shurayh is Ibn Ubayd Hadrami, Abu Bahriyya Sakuni's name is Abdullah bin Qays Kindi, and Abu Zabya, also said to be Abu Tayba, Kalai Himsi, whose name is not known, was deemed reliable by Yahya bin Main, and Daraqutni said, "There is no harm in him."As for what is narrated from Ibn Abbas, that the Prophet ﷺ said, "Ikhlas is like this," and he raised one finger of his right hand, "and ibtihal is like this," and he stretched out his hands and made the palms face the ground, "and dua is like this," and he made his hands with their palms facing the sky, the correct view is that this is a mawquf report. It was narrated by Abu Dawud (1491), Tabarani in Dua (2178), and Bayhaqi in Dawat (314), all of them through the route of Abdul-Aziz bin Muhammad Darawardi, who said, Abbas bin Abdullah bin Mabad bin Abbas bin Abdul-Muttalib narrated to us, from his brother Ibrahim bin Abdullah bin Mabad, from Ibn Abbas, and he mentioned it. The wording given is that of Tabarani, and Abu Dawud did not give the wording, but simply referred back to the mawquf hadith of Ibn Abbas mentioned before it.Abdul-Aziz bin Muhammad Darawardi is truthful, but he used to narrate from the books of others and would make mistakes, as Ahmad and others have said, and he has been contradicted both in making it marfu and in naming the teacher of Abbas bin Abdullah. For Abu Dawud (1489, 1490) narrated it through the route of Waheeb bin Khalid and Sufyan bin Uyayna, both of them from Abbas bin Abdullah bin Mabad bin Abbas bin Abdul-Muttalib, from Ikrima, from Ibn Abbas, who said, "The masala is that you raise your hands level with your shoulders or thereabouts, the istighfar is that you point with one finger, and the ibtihal is that you stretch out both your hands together." This is the wording of Wahib, and in the wording of Ibn Uyayna, "The ibtihal is like this," and he raised his hands and made their backs face toward his face.Abu Zura leaned toward preferring this mawquf narration, for when the disagreement over the chain of this hadith was mentioned to him, he said, "Ibn Uyayna is the most retentive of all of them."