Sunan Abi Dawud

Sunan Abi Dawud 578

Arabic hadith text

حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ صَالِحٍ، قَالَ قَرَأْتُ عَلَى ابْنِ وَهْبٍ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي عَمْرٌو، عَنْ بُكَيْرٍ، أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ عَفِيفَ بْنَ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْمُسَيَّبِ، يَقُولُ حَدَّثَنِي رَجُلٌ، مِنْ بَنِي أَسَدِ بْنِ خُزَيْمَةَ أَنَّهُ سَأَلَ أَبَا أَيُّوبَ الأَنْصَارِيَّ فَقَالَ يُصَلِّي أَحَدُنَا فِي مَنْزِلِهِ الصَّلاَةَ ثُمَّ يَأْتِي الْمَسْجِدَ وَتُقَامُ الصَّلاَةُ فَأُصَلِّي مَعَهُمْ فَأَجِدُ فِي نَفْسِي مِنْ ذَلِكَ شَيْئًا ‏.‏ فَقَالَ أَبُو أَيُّوبَ سَأَلْنَا عَنْ ذَلِكَ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم فَقَالَ ‏"‏ ذَلِكَ لَهُ سَهْمُ جَمْعٍ ‏"‏ ‏.‏

Translation

Ahmad ibn Salih said: I read to Ibn Wahb, who said: ʿAmr informed me, from Bukayr, who heard ʿAfif ibn ʿAmr ibn al-Musayyab say: A man of Banu Asad ibn Khuzaymah narrated to me that he asked Abu Ayyub al-Ansari: ‘If one of us prays at home, then comes to the mosque and finds the prayer being established, and prays with them, he feels uneasy about it.’ Abu Ayyub replied: ‘We asked the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) about that, and he said: “That is a share in the congregational prayer.”’