عن أبي سُليمانَ مالكِ بنِ الحُوَيْرثِ رضي الله عنه، قال:أَتَينا النبيَّﷺ ونحن شَبَبةٌ مُتقارِبون، فأقمْنا عنده عِشرين ليلةً، فظنَّ أنَّا اشتَقْنا أهْلَنا، وسألَنا عمَّن ترَكْنا في أهلنا، فأخبرناه، وكان رفيقًا رحيمًا، فقال: «ارْجِعوا إلى أهلِيكم،فعلِّموهم ومُروهم،وصلُّوا كما رأيتموني أُصلِّي،وإذا حضَرتِ الصلاةُ، فلْيُؤذِّنْ لكم أحدُكم، ثم لِيَؤُمَّكم أكبَرُكم»
Mālik ibn al-Ḥuwayrith narrated:
1. We came to the Prophet, a group of young men of roughly the same age, and stayed with him twenty nights. When he felt that we missed our people, he asked us about the families we had left behind and we told him. 2. God’s Messenger was compassionate and kind. He said: “Go back to your people and stay with them, 3. Teach them and instruct them. 4. Pray as you have seen me pray. 5. When prayer is due, let one of you say the call to prayer [i.e. the adhān], and let your eldest lead the prayer”.
Related by al-Bukhari, 6008; Muslim, 674.
Mālik ibn al-Ḥuwayrith al-Laythī, Abu Sulaymān’s name was sometimes given differently by scholars. He later resided in Basrah. He visited the Prophet (peace be upon him) with a group of young men belonging to the same tribe. The Prophet taught them prayer and told them to teach their people when they returned home. He narrated several hadiths concerning prayer. He died in Year 94 AH, 713 CE.
