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Sunan al-Kubra of al-Nasa'i

By al-Nasa'i

السنن الكبرى للنسائي

Ahmad ibn Shu'ayb al-Nasa'i's (d. 303 AH) larger collection, distinct from the Sunan al-Sughra (al-Mujtaba). Its second volume covers night and voluntary prayer, rain prayer, eclipse prayer, shortening the prayer on a journey, Friday, and the two festivals. 1

Depth

At a glance

Worship and the pillars

Summary

Sunan al-Kubra is the larger collection of Ahmad ibn Shu'ayb al-Nasa'i (d. 303 AH) (his biography). It is distinct from the smaller Sunan al-Sughra, known as al-Mujtaba. 2

Volume two

The second volume of the Mu'assasat al-Risala edition opens with the book of night prayer and voluntary prayer during the day (scan page 111). It continues with a chapter on angels writing down the worshippers in the mosque in order of arrival (page 270), the book of rain prayer (page 315), the book of the eclipse of the sun and moon (page 331), and the book of shortening the prayer on a journey (page 357). Near its end are the book of Friday (page 502) and the book of the festival prayers (page 503). 1, 3, 4, 5

The full scan

A full scan of 5,886 pages of the same edition is held, edited by Hasan Abd al-Mun'im Shalabi under Shu'ayb al-Arna'ut's supervision. Its volume number was not read, and no chapters are drawn from it here. 6

A note on the source

The second volume appears twice in the drive folder with identical content, so it is recorded as one source. Page numbers are scan pages. 2

People and things also explored

The ruling on one who abandons prayer· Adhan (the call to prayer: its ruling, wording, conditions, recommended features and the muezzin)· The people of the bench (ahl al-suffa)· The good deeds (al-hasanat)· Spending in the way of God (infaq)· The balance (al-mizan)· Provision as Lordship's gift and the imamate as the gift of divinity· Invoking blessings on the Prophet (al-salat 'ala al-nabi)

Sources

  1. Sunan al-Kubra of al-Nasa'i (vol. 2, ed. Hasan Abd al-Mun'im Shalabi, supervised by Shu'ayb al-Arna'ut) , p. 111
  2. Sunan al-Kubra of al-Nasa'i (vol. 2, ed. Hasan Abd al-Mun'im Shalabi, supervised by Shu'ayb al-Arna'ut) , p. 1
  3. Sunan al-Kubra of al-Nasa'i (vol. 2, ed. Hasan Abd al-Mun'im Shalabi, supervised by Shu'ayb al-Arna'ut) , p. 315
  4. Sunan al-Kubra of al-Nasa'i (vol. 2, ed. Hasan Abd al-Mun'im Shalabi, supervised by Shu'ayb al-Arna'ut) , p. 357
  5. Sunan al-Kubra of al-Nasa'i (vol. 2, ed. Hasan Abd al-Mun'im Shalabi, supervised by Shu'ayb al-Arna'ut) , p. 503
  6. Sunan al-Kubra of al-Nasa'i (full scan, ed. Hasan Abd al-Mun'im Shalabi, supervised by Shu'ayb al-Arna'ut) , p. 1
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The ruling on one who abandons prayer

Al-Sallabi quotes Ali: whoever does not pray is an unbeliever. He then reports from al-Nawawi the dispute over one who neglects prayer while believing it obligatory: the majority (Malik, al-Shafi'i) hold him a sinner to be asked to repent, others hold him an unbeliever, a view ascribed to Ali; Abu Hanifa and the Kufans hold him not an unbeliever but to be disciplined.