Sunan an-Nasa'i
Sunan an-Nasa'i 1082
أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ حَبِيبِ بْنِ عَرَبِيٍّ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادٌ، عَنْ غَيْلاَنَ بْنِ جَرِيرٍ، عَنْ مُطَرِّفٍ، قَالَ صَلَّيْتُ أَنَا وَعِمْرَانُ بْنُ حُصَيْنٍ، خَلْفَ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ فَكَانَ إِذَا سَجَدَ كَبَّرَ وَإِذَا رَفَعَ رَأْسَهُ مِنَ السُّجُودِ كَبَّرَ وَإِذَا نَهَضَ مِنَ الرَّكْعَتَيْنِ كَبَّرَ فَلَمَّا قَضَى صَلاَتَهُ أَخَذَ عِمْرَانُ بِيَدِي فَقَالَ لَقَدْ ذَكَّرَنِي هَذَا - قَالَ كَلِمَةً يَعْنِي - صَلاَةَ مُحَمَّدٍ صلى الله عليه وسلم .
Yahya ibn Habib ibn ʿArabi informed us: Hammad narrated to us, from Ghaylan ibn Jarir, from Mutarrif, who said: ʿImran ibn Husayn and I prayed behind ʿAli ibn Abi Talib. Whenever he prostrated, he said the takbir; when he raised his head from prostration, he said the takbir; and when he rose after two rakʿahs, he said the takbir. When he had finished the prayer, ʿImran took my hand and said, “This reminded me”—he used a word to that effect—“of Muhammad’s prayer.”
Translation notes
The parenthetical phrase قَالَ كَلِمَةً يَعْنِي marks the narrator’s approximate wording; it is retained as “he used a word to that effect.”
أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ حَبِيبِ بْنِ عَرَبِيٍّ،
The English witness starts with Mutarrif and omits the earlier narrators in the Arabic chain.
Should the English witness preserve the full chain of transmission?