Sunan Abi Dawud

Sunan Abi Dawud 588

Arabic hadith text

حَدَّثَنَا الْقَعْنَبِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا أَنَسٌ يَعْنِي ابْنَ عِيَاضٍ، ح وَحَدَّثَنَا الْهَيْثَمُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ الْجُهَنِيُّ، - الْمَعْنَى - قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ نُمَيْرٍ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ، عَنْ نَافِعٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ، أَنَّهُ قَالَ لَمَّا قَدِمَ الْمُهَاجِرُونَ الأَوَّلُونَ نَزَلُوا الْعَصْبَةَ قَبْلَ مَقْدَمِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم فَكَانَ يَؤُمُّهُمْ سَالِمٌ مَوْلَى أَبِي حُذَيْفَةَ وَكَانَ أَكْثَرَهُمْ قُرْآنًا ‏.‏ زَادَ الْهَيْثَمُ وَفِيهِمْ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ وَأَبُو سَلَمَةَ بْنُ عَبْدِ الأَسَدِ ‏.‏

Translation

Al-Qaʿnabi narrated to us: Anas—meaning Ibn ʿIyad—narrated to us. And al-Haytham ibn Khalid al-Juhani narrated to us—the meaning is the same. They said: Ibn Numayr narrated to us, from ʿUbayd Allah, from Nafiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar, who said: When the earliest emigrants arrived, they settled at al-ʿUsbah before the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) arrived. Salim, the freedman of Abu Hudhayfah, led them in prayer, for he had memorized the most Qur’an among them. Al-Haytham added: ʿUmar ibn al-Khattab and Abu Salamah ibn ʿAbd al-Asad were among them.