Jami' at-Tirmidhi
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 3247
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مَهْدِيٍّ، حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ، وَالأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ ذَرٍّ، عَنْ يُسَيْعٍ الْحَضْرَمِيِّ، عَنِ النُّعْمَانِ بْنِ بَشِيرٍ، قَالَ سَمِعْتُ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم يَقُولُ " الدُّعَاءُ هُوَ الْعِبَادَةُ " . ثُمَّ قَرَأَ : ( وقَالَ رَبُّكُمُ ادْعُونِي أَسْتَجِبْ لَكُمْ إِنَّ الَّذِينَ يَسْتَكْبِرُونَ عَنْ عِبَادَتِي سَيَدْخُلُونَ جَهَنَّمَ دَاخِرِينَ ) قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى . هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Al-Nu‘man ibn Bashir said: I heard the Prophet say, ‘Supplication is worship.’ Then he recited: ‘Your Lord says, “Call upon Me; I will answer you. Those who are too proud to worship Me will enter Hell in humiliation”’ (Qur’an 40:60). Abu ‘Isa said: This is a hasan sahih hadith.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
Preserved the equivalence between supplication and worship and the verse’s wording about those who refuse worship.