Jami' at-Tirmidhi — Hadith #26503

Mahmoud bin Ghaylan narrated to us, Waki’ narrated to us, Ash’ath bin Saeed Al-Samman narrated to us, on the authority of Asim bin Ubaid Allah, on the authority of Abdullah bin Amir bin Rabi’ah, on the authority of his father, said: We were with the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, on a journey on a dark night, and we did not know where the qiblah was, so everyone prayed. A man from among us was in a state of affairs, and when we woke up, we mentioned that to the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, and he revealed: (So wherever you turn, there is the face of God.) Abu Issa said. This is a hadith whose chain of transmission is not similar to that. We do not know of it except from the hadith of Ash’ath Al-Samman. And Ash’ath bin Saeed Abu Al-Rabi’ Quail is doubled in the hadith. Most of the people of knowledge have held this view. They said: If he prays in the clouds, facing other than the qiblah, then it becomes clear After he prayed, he said that he prayed in a direction other than the Qiblah, so his prayer is permissible. This is what Sufyan al-Thawri, Ibn al-Mubarak, and Ahmad said. And Ishaq...