The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to me, "Go out and announce that there is no prayer except with the recitation of the Opening of the Book, and whatever is added to it."In another wording, "There is no prayer except with Quran, even if it is only the Opening of the Book, and whatever is added to it."Some narrators did not mention the phrase, "and whatever is added to it."
قال لي رسول الله ﷺ: اخرج فناد، أنه لا صلاة إلا بقراءة فاتحة الكتاب، فما زاد. وفي لفظ: لا صلاة إلا بقرآن، ولو بفاتحة الكتاب فما زاد. والبعض لم يذكر لفظ: فما زاد.
Reported by Abu Dawud (819, 820), Ahmad (9529), Daraqutni (1224), Ibn Hibban (1791), Hakim (1/239), Bayhaqi (2/37, 59, 375), and Bukhari in Al-Qiraah Khalf Al-Imam (7), all of them through various routes from Jafar bin Maymun, who said, Abu Uthman Nahdi narrated to us, from Abu Hurairah, and he related it.Hakim said, "This is a sahih hadith with nothing objectionable in it, for Jafar bin Maymun Abdi is among the trustworthy narrators of Basrah, and Yahya bin Saeed only narrates from trustworthy narrators." Dhahabi said, "Sahih with nothing objectionable in it, and Jafar is trustworthy."I say, it is not as they both said, for Jafar bin Maymun, who is Abu Ali the cloth-seller, is disputed. Ibn Main, Ahmad, and Nasai declared him daif. Abu Hatim said, "Salih." Ibn Hibban mentioned him in Ath-Thiqat and included him in his Sahih. Daraqutni said, "He is to be given weight." Ibn Adi said, "I have not seen any of his hadiths to be objectionable, and I hope there is no harm in him." So someone like him, if corroborated, his hadith rises to hasan, otherwise not.We found that Bayhaqi also related it in Al-Qiraah (46) through the route of Mansur bin Saad, from Abdul-Kareem bin Rashid, from Abu Uthman Nahdi, from Abu Hurairah, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ commanded him, so he called out through the roads of Madinah, "There is no prayer without recitation, even if only with the Opening Chapter of the Book." Tabarani also related it through this same route in Al-Awsat, as mentioned in Nasb Raya (1/367), but in his chain is Hajjaj bin Artah, who practices tadlis, though he too has been corroborated.As for Abdul-Kareem bin Rashid, or Ibn Rashid, Ibn Main deemed him trustworthy. Nasai said, "There is no harm in him." In At-Taqrib it says, "Truthful." This is a strong corroboration for Jafar bin Maymun. Through these two routes, this hadith rises to the level of sahih, or at least hasan.