Jami' at-Tirmidhi
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 247
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى بْنِ أَبِي عُمَرَ الْمَكِّيُّ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْعَدَنِيُّ، وَعَلِيُّ بْنُ حُجْرٍ، قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ، عَنْ مَحْمُودِ بْنِ الرَّبِيعِ، عَنْ عُبَادَةَ بْنِ الصَّامِتِ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ " لاَ صَلاَةَ لِمَنْ لَمْ يَقْرَأْ بِفَاتِحَةِ الْكِتَابِ " . قَالَ وَفِي الْبَابِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ وَعَائِشَةَ وَأَنَسٍ وَأَبِي قَتَادَةَ وَعَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو . قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى حَدِيثُ عُبَادَةَ حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ . وَالْعَمَلُ عَلَيْهِ عِنْدَ أَكْثَرِ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم مِنْهُمْ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ وَعَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ وَجَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ وَعِمْرَانُ بْنُ حُصَيْنٍ وَغَيْرُهُمْ قَالُوا لاَ تُجْزِئُ صَلاَةٌ إِلاَّ بِقِرَاءَةِ فَاتِحَةِ الْكِتَابِ . وَقَالَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ كُلُّ صَلاَةٍ لَمْ يُقْرَأْ فِيهَا بِفَاتِحَةِ الْكِتَابِ فَهِيَ خِدَاجٌ غَيْرُ تَمَامٍ . وَبِهِ يَقُولُ ابْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ وَالشَّافِعِيُّ وَأَحْمَدُ وَإِسْحَاقُ . سَمِعْتُ ابْنَ أَبِي عُمَرَ يَقُولُ اخْتَلَفْتُ إِلَى ابْنِ عُيَيْنَةَ ثَمَانِيَةَ عَشْرَ سَنَةً وَكَانَ الْحُمَيْدِيُّ أَكْبَرَ مِنِّي بِسَنَةٍ . وَسَمِعْتُ ابْنَ أَبِي عُمَرَ يَقُولُ حَجَجْتُ سَبْعِينَ حَجَّةً مَاشِيًا عَلَى قَدَمَىَّ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Abi Umar al-Makki Abu Abd Allah al-Adani and Ali ibn Hujr narrated to us; they said: Sufyan ibn Uyaynah narrated to us, from al-Zuhri, from Mahmud ibn al-Rabi, from Ubadah ibn al-Samit, from the Prophet, who said: ‘There is no prayer for one who does not recite the Opening of the Book.’
Reports on this subject are also related from Abu Hurayrah, A’ishah, Anas, Abu Qatadah, and Abd Allah ibn Amr. Abu Isa said: The hadith of Ubadah is hasan sahih. Most scholars among the Prophet’s Companions acted on this, including Umar ibn al-Khattab, Ali ibn Abi Talib, Jabir ibn Abd Allah, and Imran ibn Husayn, and others: they said that a prayer does not suffice without recitation of the Opening of the Book. Ali ibn Abi Talib said: ‘Any prayer in which the Opening of the Book is not recited is deficient, incomplete.’ This was also the view of Ibn al-Mubarak, al-Shafi‘i, Ahmad, and Ishaq. I heard Ibn Abi Umar say: I frequented Ibn Uyaynah’s lessons for eighteen years; al-Humaydi was one year older than I. I heard Ibn Abi Umar say: I performed the Hajj seventy times on foot.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
Khidaj describes something deficient or incomplete; the compiler quotes Ali’s gloss to clarify the consequence.
وَقَالَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ كُلُّ صَلاَةٍ لَمْ يُقْرَأْ فِيهَا بِفَاتِحَةِ الْكِتَابِ فَهِيَ خِدَاجٌ غَيْرُ تَمَامٍ .
The term khidaj conveys a deficient or incomplete act, which Ali's explanation restates.
Does “deficient, incomplete” preserve this gloss without implying a separate ritual ruling?