Hadithcore
Sunan Abi Dawud, 795
sahih· Al-Albani

Abu Hurairah reported the prophet (ﷺ) as saying:

when one of you leads the people in prayer, he should be brief, for among them are the sick, the aged and the needy.

حَدَّثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ، أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ، عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ، عَنِ ابْنِ الْمُسَيَّبِ، وَأَبِي، سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ ‏

‏ إِذَا صَلَّى أَحَدُكُمْ لِلنَّاسِ فَلْيُخَفِّفْ فَإِنَّ فِيهِمُ السَّقِيمَ وَالشَّيْخَ الْكَبِيرَ وَذَا الْحَاجَةِ ‏

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Isnad

7 transmitters
  1. 1al-Hasan bin 'Ali al-HalwaniMakkah · d. 242 AH
  2. 2'Abdur-RazzaqYemen/Hijaz/Syria/Iraq · d. 211 AH/827 CE
  3. 3Ma'mar bin RashidBasrah/Medinah/Yemen · d. 154 AH/770 CE
  4. 4al-ZuhriMedinah/Syria · d. 124 AH/741 CE
  5. 5Sa'id ibn al-MusayyibMedinah · d. 94 AH/715 CE
  6. 6Abu Salama bin 'Abdur RahmanMedina · d. 94 AH or 104 AH
  7. 7Abu HurairahMakkah/Medina/Yemen/Bahrain · d. 59 AH/681 CE
References2 variants
In-Book Reference
Book 2, Hadith 405
English Reference
Book 2, Hadith 795
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