Jami` at-Tirmidhi 511

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Muhammad ibn Abi Umar told us: Sufyan ibn Uyaynah told us, from Muhammad ibn Ajlan, from Iyad ibn Abdullah ibn Abi Sarh, that Abu Said al-Khudri entered on a Friday while Marwan was delivering the sermon. He stood to pray, and the guards came to make him sit, but he refused until he had prayed. When he finished, we went to him and said, “May Allah have mercy on you! They nearly harmed you.” He replied, “I would not leave these two units after something I saw the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, do.” He then mentioned that a man came on Friday in shabby condition while the Prophet was delivering the sermon, and the Prophet ordered him to pray two units while he continued the sermon. Ibn Abi Umar said: Sufyan ibn Uyaynah used to pray two units when he arrived while the imam was preaching, and he would instruct others to do so; Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Muqri also held this view. Abu Isa said: I heard Ibn Abi Umar say that Sufyan ibn Uyaynah said Muhammad ibn Ajlan was trustworthy and reliable in hadith. Reports on this subject are also related from Jabir, Abu Hurayrah, and Sahl ibn Sad. Abu Isa said: The hadith of Abu Said al-Khudri is hasan sahih. Some scholars acted upon this; this is the view of al-Shafii, Ahmad, and Ishaq. Others said that if someone arrives while the imam is delivering the sermon, he should sit and not pray. This is the view of Sufyan al-Thawri and the scholars of Kufa. The first view is more sound. Qutaybah told us: al-Ala ibn Khalid al-Qurashi said: I saw al-Hasan al-Basri enter the mosque on Friday while the imam was preaching; he prayed two units and then sat. Al-Hasan did this only in adherence to the hadith, which he narrated from Jabir from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him.