Question:
The Prophet PBUH said: “When a slave stands and prays, all his sins are brought and placed on his head and shoulders. Every time he bows or prostrates, some of them fall from him.” (Bayhaqi, Saheeh al-Jami’)
Question – is this a recorded hadith? Could you please advise.
Answer:
سَمِعْتُ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ: “إِنَّ الْعَبْدَ إِذَا قَامَ يُصَلِّي أُتِيَ بِذُنُوبِهِ فَوَضَعَتْ عَلَى رَأْسِهِ أَوْ عَاتِقِهِ فَكُلَّمَا رَكَعَ أَوْ سَجَدَ تساقطت عنه
The hadith “When a slave stands and prays, all his sins are brought and placed on his head and shoulders. Every time he bows or prostrates, they fall from him” is indeed sahih and is narrated from Ibn Mas’ud in Sahih Ibn Hibban among others. Note that the wording in Ibn Hibban does not say “some of them fall from him” but “they fall from him.”
Hajj Gibril Haddad
