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Mishkat al-Masabih 1402

Aishah said there was an eclipse of the sun in the time of God’s Messenger, and he sent one to summon the people to congregational prayer. He then went forward and prayed two rakas in which he bowed…

Aishah bint Abi Bakrnarrated it
Sahihgraded sahih by agreed upon
2names in the chain
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عَنْ عَائِشَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهَا

قَالَتْ: إِنَّ الشَّمْسَ خَسَفَتْ عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَبَعَثَ مُنَادِيًا: الصَّلَاةُ جَامِعَةٌ فَتقدم فصلى أَربع رَكْعَات وَفِي رَكْعَتَيْنِ وَأَرْبع سَجدَات. قَالَت عَائِشَة: مَا رَكَعْتُ رُكُوعًا قَطُّ وَلَا سَجَدْتُ سُجُودًا قطّ كَانَ أطول مِنْهُ

Aishah said there was an eclipse of the sun in the time of God’s Messenger, and he sent one to summon the people to congregational prayer. He then went forward and prayed two rakas in which he bowed four times and prostrated himself four times. Aishah said, “I never performed a bow or a prostration which was longer than it.”

Mishkat al-Masabih 1402, Book 5, Prayer, Hadith 880. 1 min read

What it means

An eclipse of the sun occurred during the lifetime of the Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him), so he sent a caller through the streets and markets to call people to pray and invoke Allah, Blessed and Exalted, to forgive them, have mercy on them, and maintain His apparent and hidden blessings upon them.

They gathered in his mosque, and he stepped forward to his place where he leads them in prayer. He led them in a prayer that was different from that they were accustomed to due to the occurrence of an extraordinary universal sign. There was no Iqāmah. He began the prayer by saying Takbīr and performed two Rak‘ahs each containing two bows and two prostrations.

From the Encyclopedia of Translated Prophetic Hadiths, hadeethenc.com.

The chain

Who passed it on, from Al-Khatib at-Tibrizi back to the one who was there.

  1. 1Al-Khatib at-TibriziCompiler, died 741 AH
  2. 2Aishah bint Abi BakrFrom, Companion, died 57 AH

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