Muwatta 495

A report that Malik transmits from Nafi', client of Abdullah ibn Umar, in the chapter on the takbir and recitation in the festival prayers: he attended the sacrifice and breaking-the-fast festivals with Abu Hurayra (may God be pleased with him), who said seven takbirs before the recitation in the first rak'a and five takbirs before the recitation in the last. Malik says this is the practice among us. The editor notes that Abu Mus'ab, Suwayd, Abd al-Razzaq, al-Shafi'i and Muhammad ibn al-Hasan transmitted it. Ibn Abd al-Barr says such a thing is not an opinion but a directive, and that it is transmitted from the Prophet ﷺ by many sound channels (al-Tamhid). The editor adds Ahmad ibn Hanbal's remark, quoted by Ibn Hajar in Talkhis al-Habir, that no sound raised hadith on the takbir at the festivals is transmitted, which the editor considers true. ¹

Belongs to the Muwatta, Book of Prayer. Source: the Muwatta. Mentions Abu Hurayra, Nafi', client of Ibn Umar, Malik ibn Anas, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, whom Ibn al-Nadim names Abu Abd Allah Ahmad ibn Hanbal and credits with a book of Ilal 2 and Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani. Built on in the chapters on the festival prayer.