Jami' at-Tirmidhi
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 268
حَدَّثَنَا سَلَمَةُ بْنُ شَبِيبٍ، وَأَحْمَدُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الدَّوْرَقِيُّ، وَالْحَسَنُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ الْحُلْوَانِيُّ، وَعَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مُنِيرٍ، وَغَيْرُ، وَاحِدٍ، قَالُوا حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ هَارُونَ، أَخْبَرَنَا شَرِيكٌ، عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ كُلَيْبٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ وَائِلِ بْنِ حُجْرٍ، قَالَ رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم إِذَا سَجَدَ يَضَعُ رُكْبَتَيْهِ قَبْلَ يَدَيْهِ وَإِذَا نَهَضَ رَفَعَ يَدَيْهِ قَبْلَ رُكْبَتَيْهِ . قَالَ زَادَ الْحَسَنُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ فِي حَدِيثِهِ قَالَ يَزِيدُ بْنُ هَارُونَ وَلَمْ يَرْوِ شَرِيكٌ عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ كُلَيْبٍ إِلاَّ هَذَا الْحَدِيثَ . قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ غَرِيبٌ لاَ نَعْرِفُ أَحَدًا رَوَاهُ مِثْلَ هَذَا عَنْ شَرِيكٍ . وَالْعَمَلُ عَلَيْهِ عِنْدَ أَكْثَرِ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ يَرَوْنَ أَنْ يَضَعَ الرَّجُلُ رُكْبَتَيْهِ قَبْلَ يَدَيْهِ وَإِذَا نَهَضَ رَفَعَ يَدَيْهِ قَبْلَ رُكْبَتَيْهِ . وَرَوَى هَمَّامٌ عَنْ عَاصِمٍ هَذَا مُرْسَلاً وَلَمْ يَذْكُرْ فِيهِ وَائِلَ بْنَ حُجْرٍ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Salamah ibn Shabib, Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Dawraqi, al-Hasan ibn Ali al-Hulwani, Abd Allah ibn Munir, and more than one other narrated to us; they said: Yazid ibn Harun narrated to us: Sharik informed us, from Asim ibn Kulayb, from his father, from Wa’il ibn Hujr, who said: I saw the Messenger of Allah, when prostrating, place his knees before his hands; and when rising, he lifted his hands before his knees.
Al-Hasan ibn Ali added in his version: Yazid ibn Harun said that Sharik narrated no hadith from Asim ibn Kulayb other than this one. Abu Isa said: This hadith is hasan gharib; we know no one who narrated it in this way from Sharik. Most scholars acted on it, holding that a man should place his knees before his hands and, when rising, lift his hands before his knees. Hammam narrated this from Asim as a mursal report, without mentioning Wa’il ibn Hujr.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The report specifies the order of body parts when descending into prostration and rising; the compiler notes both the unusual route and a mursal version without Wa’il.
وَرَوَى هَمَّامٌ عَنْ عَاصِمٍ هَذَا مُرْسَلاً وَلَمْ يَذْكُرْ فِيهِ وَائِلَ بْنَ حُجْرٍ .
The compiler contrasts Sharik's connected route through Wa'il with Hammam's mursal version from Asim.
Is the chain distinction and the omission of Wa'il in the mursal route clear?