وَعَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ
قَالَ: صَلَّيْتُ خَلْفَ شَيْخٍ بِمَكَّةَ فَكَبَّرَ ثِنْتَيْنِ وَعِشْرِينَ تَكْبِيرَةً فَقُلْتُ لِابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ: إِنَّهُ أَحْمَقُ فَقَالَ: ثَكَلَتْكَ أُمُّكَ سُنَّةُ أَبِي الْقَاسِمِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ
I prayed behind an old man in Mecca and he said the takbir twenty-two times. When I said to Ibn Abbas that the man was a fool, he replied, “I am surprised at you. It was the sunna of Abul Qasim.”* *This is the Prophet’s kunya.
Mishkat al-Masabih 757, Book 5, Prayer, Hadith 235. 1 min read