Mishkat al-Masabih #1056
Prayer
Abu Sa'id reported God’s Messenger as saying, “When there are three people one of them should lead them. The one among them most worthy to act as imam is the one who is most versed in the Qur’an.”
Muslim transmitted it. The tradition of Malik b. al-Huwairith has been mentioned in a chapter following that on the excellence of the adhan (Ch. 7a).
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This hadith is #1056 from Mishkat al-Masabih, in the Book of Prayer. Mishkat al-Masabih contains 4,428 hadiths across 25 books.