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«إذا كان أحدكم يصلي فلا يبصق قبل وجهه، فإن الله تبارك وتعالى قبل وجهه إذا صلى»
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Chain of transmission
Summary
The first hadith in the chapter on forbidding spitting toward the qibla. Yahya transmits from Malik from Nafi' from Abdullah ibn Umar: the Prophet ﷺ saw spit on the wall of the qibla and rubbed it off. He then turned to the people and said: when one of you prays, he should not spit in front of his face, for God is before his face when he prays. The editor cites al-Bukhari, Muslim, al-Nasa'i, Ahmad, Abu Awana, al-Baghawi and al-Bayhaqi from Malik's transmitters, and refers to al-Tamhid. 1
Place in the museum
Belongs to the Muwatta, Book of Prayer. Source: the Muwatta. Mentions Muhammad, Abdullah ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab and Nafi', client of Ibn Umar. Built on in the chapters on prayer.
Connections
- Part of
- Muwatta, Book of Prayer
- Mentions
- Muhammad· Abdullah ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab· Nafi' mawla Ibn Umar
- Basis for
- Salah (the prescribed prayer)
People and things also explored
Muwatta 21· Muwatta 189· Muwatta 270· Muwatta 319· Muwatta 336· Muwatta 341· Muwatta 384· Muwatta 459
Sources
- Muwatta, recension of Yahya ibn Yahya al-Laythi (ed. Bashar Awwad Ma'ruf) , p.270
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islam.museum contributors. “Muwatta 522”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/passage/muwatta-1-522/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-17.