Muwatta Malik #304

Prayer in Congregation
Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said that a man used to lead the people in prayer in al-Aqiq (a place near Madina), and Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz sent a message to him forbidding him to do so. Malik said, "He only forbade him because his father was not known."

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This hadith is #304 from Muwatta Malik, in the Book of Prayer in Congregation. Muwatta Malik contains 1,985 hadiths across 61 books.

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