Sunan an-Nasa'i
Sunan an-Nasa'i 1032
أَخْبَرَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَوَانَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي يَعْفُورٍ، عَنْ مُصْعَبِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ، قَالَ صَلَّيْتُ إِلَى جَنْبِ أَبِي وَجَعَلْتُ يَدَىَّ بَيْنَ رُكْبَتَىَّ فَقَالَ لِي اضْرِبْ بِكَفَّيْكَ عَلَى رُكْبَتَيْكَ . قَالَ ثُمَّ فَعَلْتُ ذَلِكَ مَرَّةً أُخْرَى فَضَرَبَ يَدِي وَقَالَ إِنَّا قَدْ نُهِينَا عَنْ هَذَا وَأُمِرْنَا أَنْ نَضْرِبَ بِالأَكُفِّ عَلَى الرُّكَبِ .
Qutaybah informed us: Abu ʿAwanah narrated to us, from Abu Yaʿfur, from Musʿab ibn Saʿd, who said: “I prayed beside my father and placed my hands between my knees. He said to me, ‘Strike your palms against your knees.’ I did that again, and he struck my hands and said, ‘We have been forbidden to do this and commanded to strike our palms against our knees.’”
Translation notes
أَخْبَرَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ،
The English witness is abridged in the transmission chain, while the Arabic source preserves it.
Should the English witness include the omitted chain in its separate source record?