Chapter 73

The order to those in whose presence the Messenger is mentioned to pray for blessings and salutations upon him

Remembrance 1
WE RELATE FROM the book of at-Tirmidhī that Abū Hurayrah Honorific symbol reported that the Messenger of Allah Honorific symbol said: “Woe betide the man in whose presence I am mentioned and who does not pray for blessings upon me.” [1].According to at-Tirmidhī, this hadith is ḥasan.
We relate in the book of Ibn as-Sunnī with a good isnād from Anas Honorific symbol, who related that the Messenger of Allah Honorific symbol said: “When I am mentioned in anyone’s presence, let him pray for blessings upon me, because whoever prays for blessings upon me once, Allah will send ten blessings upon him.” [2].
We relate in the same source, with a weak isnād from Jābir Honorific symbol, who narrated that the Messenger of Allah Honorific symbol said: “Anyone in whose presence I am mentioned but who does not invoke blessings upon me is made wretched.” [3].
We relate in the book of at-Tirmidhī from ‘Alī Honorific symbol, who related that the Messenger of Allah Honorific symbol said: “The miser is he in whose presence I am mentioned and who does not then pray for blessings upon me.” [4].At-Tirmidhī classed this hadith as ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ.
We have also related it from the book of an-Nasā’ī from the narration of al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Alī Honorific symbol from the Prophet Honorific symbol.
The Imam Abū ‘Īsā at-Tirmidhī said about this hadith: “It is related from one of the people of knowledge that he said that if a person invokes blessing upon the Prophet Honorific symbol once in a gathering, that is enough for him to make up for whatever may have happened in that gathering”.

References

[1] At-Tirmidhī (3539) and al-Futūḥāt (3/319). According to Ibn Ḥajar, this hadith is ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ.
[2] Ibn as-Sunnī (382) and an-Nasā’ī (61) in ‘Amal al-yawm wa al-laylah.
[3] Ibn as-Sunnī (383).
[4] At-Tirmidhī (3540), an-Nasā’ī (55) in ‘Amal al-yawm wa al-laylah, and al-Ḥākim in al-Mustadrak (1/549), who grades it as ṣaḥīḥ, and adh-Dhahabī agrees. Its chain of narration is graded as ḥasan in al-Futūḥāt (3/323).