Jami' at-Tirmidhi
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 269
حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ نَافِعٍ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ حَسَنٍ، عَنْ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ، عَنِ الأَعْرَجِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ " يَعْمِدُ أَحَدُكُمْ فَيَبْرُكُ فِي صَلاَتِهِ بَرْكَ الْجَمَلِ " . قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى حَدِيثُ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ حَدِيثٌ غَرِيبٌ لاَ نَعْرِفُهُ مِنْ حَدِيثِ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ إِلاَّ مِنْ هَذَا الْوَجْهِ . وَقَدْ رُوِيَ هَذَا الْحَدِيثُ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ الْمَقْبُرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم . وَعَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الْمَقْبُرِيُّ ضَعَّفَهُ يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الْقَطَّانُ وَغَيْرُهُ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Qutaybah narrated to us: Abd Allah ibn Nafi narrated to us, from Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn Hasan, from Abu al-Zinad, from al-Araj, from Abu Hurayrah, that the Prophet said: ‘Does one of you deliberately drop down in his prayer the way a camel drops down?’
Abu Isa said: The hadith of Abu Hurayrah is gharib. We know it from Abu al-Zinad only through this route. This hadith has also been narrated from Abd Allah ibn Sa‘id al-Maqburi, from his father, from Abu Hurayrah, from the Prophet. Yahya ibn Sa‘id al-Qattan and others considered Abd Allah ibn Sa‘id al-Maqburi weak.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The saying is translated as a comparison to the camel’s manner of kneeling; the compiler notes a unique route and a weak alternate transmitter.
وَعَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الْمَقْبُرِيُّ ضَعَّفَهُ يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الْقَطَّانُ وَغَيْرُهُ .
The compiler notes weakness in Abd Allah ibn Sa'id al-Maqburi, the transmitter in the alternate chain.
Is the weakness of the alternate transmission clearly attributed to its transmitter?