Azami 3336

Bukhari narrated it in the Book of Adhan (616), and Muslim in the Book of the Traveler's Prayer (699), both through Hammad bin Zayd, from Ayub, Abdul-Hameed the companion of Ziyadi, and Asim Ahwal, from Abdullah bin Harith, from Ibn Abbas, and he related it. The wording given is Bukhari's.Bukhari also narrated it in the Book of Friday Prayer (901), and Muslim as well, both through Ismail bin Ulaya, who said, "Abdul-Hameed the companion of Ziyadi informed me." He said, "Abdul-Hameed bin Harith, the cousin of Muhammad bin Sirin, narrated to us." He said, Ibn Abbas said to his muezzin on a rainy day, "When you say, 'I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah,' do not say, 'Come to prayer.' Instead say, 'Pray in your homes.'" The people seemed to disapprove of this. He said, "Someone better than me did this. Friday prayer is obligatory, but I disliked to burden you and make you walk through mud and slippery ground."The wording given is Bukhari's, and Muslim's wording is similar.His saying, "on a radgh day," radgh means water and mud.His saying, "Friday prayer is azma," with the zay unvowelled, means it is obligatory and binding. For if the muezzin had said, "Come to prayer," you would have been obligated to come to it, and hardship would have befallen you.His saying, "in mud and dahd," with the ha unvowelled followed by a dotted dad, dahd means slipping and slipperiness.And radgh, with fatha on the ra, and the dal unvowelled, followed by a dotted ghayn, carries the same meaning as dahd.Some narrators of Muslim narrated it as razgh, with a zay, and this is also correct, carrying the same meaning as radgh. It has also been said to mean rain that moistens the surface of the earth.This hadith has already appeared in the Book of Prayer, in the chapter on the permission to forgo the congregational prayer at times of rain and other excuses, where the hadith of Abu Malih was mentioned before it.