Jami' at-Tirmidhi

Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2730

Arabic hadith text

حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدَةَ الضَّبِّيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ سُلَيْمٍ الطَّائِفِيُّ، عَنْ سُفْيَانَ، عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ، عَنْ خَيْثَمَةَ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ ‏ "‏ مِنْ تَمَامِ التَّحِيَّةِ الأَخْذُ بِالْيَدِ ‏" ‏ ‏.‏ وَفِي الْبَابِ عَنِ الْبَرَاءِ وَابْنِ عُمَرَ ‏.‏ قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ غَرِيبٌ وَلاَ نَعْرِفُهُ إِلاَّ مِنْ حَدِيثِ يَحْيَى بْنِ سُلَيْمٍ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ ‏.‏ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ إِسْمَاعِيلَ عَنْ هَذَا الْحَدِيثِ فَلَمْ يَعُدَّهُ مَحْفُوظًا وَقَالَ إِنَّمَا أَرَادَ عِنْدِي حَدِيثَ سُفْيَانَ عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ عَنْ خَيْثَمَةَ عَمَّنْ سَمِعَ ابْنَ مَسْعُودٍ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ ‏"‏ لاَ سَمَرَ إِلاَّ لِمُصَلٍّ أَوْ مُسَافِرٍ ‏"‏ ‏.‏ قَالَ مُحَمَّدٌ وَإِنَّمَا يُرْوَى عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ أَوْ غَيْرِهِ قَالَ مِنْ تَمَامِ التَّحِيَّةِ الأَخْذُ بِالْيَدِ ‏.‏

Translation

Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.

Ibn Mas‘ud reported that the Prophet said: ‘Taking someone’s hand is part of completing the greeting.’ There are reports on this topic from al-Bara’ and Ibn ‘Umar.

Abu ‘Isa said: This is a gharib hadith; we know it only through Yahya ibn Sulaym’s narration from Sufyan. I asked Muhammad ibn Isma‘il about it, and he did not consider this wording reliably preserved. He thought the intended report in Sufyan’s narration from Mansur, from Khaythamah, from someone who heard Ibn Mas‘ud, was: ‘There is no late-night conversation except for one who prays or is traveling.’ Muhammad said that the wording about completing the greeting is instead transmitted from Mansur, from Abu Ishaq, from ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn Yazid or someone else.

Notes and open questions — unreviewed
  • The source questions whether the handshake wording is preserved through the cited chain and distinguishes it from a separate report about staying up late. It then gives another chain for the handshake wording.