Jami' at-Tirmidhi

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Jami` at-Tirmidhi 258
Arabic hadith text

حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنِيعٍ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو حَصِينٍ، عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ السُّلَمِيِّ، قَالَ قَالَ لَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ رضى الله عَنْهُ إِنَّ الرُّكَبَ سُنَّتْ لَكُمْ فَخُذُوا بِالرُّكَبِ ‏.‏ قَالَ وَفِي الْبَابِ عَنْ سَعْدٍ وَأَنَسٍ وَأَبِي حُمَيْدٍ وَأَبِي أُسَيْدٍ وَسَهْلِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ وَمُحَمَّدِ بْنِ مَسْلَمَةَ وَأَبِي مَسْعُودٍ ‏.‏ قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى حَدِيثُ عُمَرَ حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ ‏.‏ وَالْعَمَلُ عَلَى هَذَا عِنْدَ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم وَالتَّابِعِينَ وَمَنْ بَعْدَهُمْ لاَ اخْتِلاَفَ بَيْنَهُمْ فِي ذَلِكَ إِلاَّ مَا رُوِيَ عَنِ ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ وَبَعْضِ أَصْحَابِهِ أَنَّهُمْ كَانُوا يُطَبِّقُونَ ‏.‏ وَالتَّطْبِيقُ مَنْسُوخٌ عِنْدَ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ ‏.‏

Translation

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Ahmad ibn Mani narrated to us: Abu Bakr ibn Ayyash narrated to us: Abu Husayn narrated to us, from Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami, who said: Umar ibn al-Khattab, may Allah be pleased with him, said to us: ‘The knees have been prescribed for you as the practice, so hold your knees.’

Reports on this subject are also related from Sa‘d, Anas, Abu Humayd, Abu Usayd, Sahl ibn Sa‘d, Muhammad ibn Maslamah, and Abu Masud. Abu Isa said: The hadith of Umar is hasan sahih. The scholars among the Prophet’s Companions, the Successors, and those after them acted on this, with no disagreement among them except what is reported from Ibn Masud and some of his companions: they used to practice tatbiq. The scholars consider tatbiq abrogated.

Notes and open questions — unreviewed

  • The report refers to grasping the knees while bowing; tatbiq was a distinct earlier hand-positioning practice that the compiler says was abrogated.

  • ‏ وَالْعَمَلُ عَلَى هَذَا عِنْدَ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم وَالتَّابِعِينَ وَمَنْ بَعْدَهُمْ لاَ اخْتِلاَفَ بَيْنَهُمْ فِي ذَلِكَ إِلاَّ مَا رُوِيَ عَنِ ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ وَبَعْضِ أَصْحَابِهِ أَنَّهُمْ كَانُوا يُطَبِّقُونَ ‏.

    The Arabic names an earlier practice (tatbiq) without describing its exact physical form in this block.

    Should tatbiq remain transliterated here, or be glossed from the surrounding source context?