Sunan an-Nasa'i
Sunan an-Nasa'i 1035
Arabic hadith text
أَخْبَرَنَا سُوَيْدُ بْنُ نَصْرٍ، قَالَ أَنْبَأَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ، عَنْ سُفْيَانَ، عَنْ أَبِي حَصِينٍ، عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ السُّلَمِيِّ، قَالَ قَالَ عُمَرُ إِنَّمَا السُّنَّةُ الأَخْذُ بِالرُّكَبِ .
Translation
Suwayd ibn Nasr informed us: ʿAbdullah ibn al-Mubarak reported to us, from Sufyan, from Abu Husayn, from Abu ʿAbd al-Rahman al-Sulami, who said: ʿUmar said: “The Sunnah is to hold the knees.”
Translation notes
أَخْبَرَنَا سُوَيْدُ بْنُ نَصْرٍ،
The English witness is abridged in the transmission chain; the Arabic source preserves it.
Should the English witness include the omitted chain in its separate source record?