Sunan an-Nasa'i
Sunan an-Nasa'i 1033
أَخْبَرَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ عَلِيٍّ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ، عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ أَبِي خَالِدٍ، عَنِ الزُّبَيْرِ بْنِ عَدِيٍّ، عَنْ مُصْعَبِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ، قَالَ رَكَعْتُ فَطَبَّقْتُ فَقَالَ أَبِي إِنَّ هَذَا شَىْءٌ كُنَّا نَفْعَلُهُ ثُمَّ ارْتَفَعْنَا إِلَى الرُّكَبِ .
ʿAmr ibn ʿAli informed us: Yahya ibn Saʿid narrated to us, from Ismaʿil ibn Abi Khalid, from al-Zubayr ibn ʿAdi, from Musʿab ibn Saʿd, who said: “I bowed and clasped my hands together. My father said: ‘This is something we used to do; then we moved up to the knees.’”
Translation notes
The wording describes an earlier hand position during bowing and a later move to the knees; the exact physical placement of the clasped hands is not specified in this short report.
أَخْبَرَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ عَلِيٍّ،
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?