أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو نُعَيْمٍ ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ هُوَ ابْنُ النُّعْمَانِ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ ، حَدَّثَنِي سَعْدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ كَعْبِ بْنِ عُجْرَةَ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ ، عَنْ كَعْبٍ ، قَالَ : خَرَجَ عَلَيْنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَنَحْنُ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ سَبْعَةٌ : مِنَّا ثَلَاثَةٌ مِنْ عَرَبِنَا وَأَرْبَعَةٌ مِنْ مَوَالِينَا أَوْ أَرْبَعَةٌ مِنْ عَرَبِنَا وَثَلَاثَةٌ مِنْ مَوَالِينَا ، قَالَ : فَخَرَجَ عَلَيْنَا النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مِنْ بَعْضِ حُجَرِهِ حَتَّى جَلَسَ إِلَيْنَا، فَقَالَ : " مَا يُجْلِسُكُمْ هَهُنَا؟ " قُلْنَا : انْتِظَارُ الصَّلَاةِ، قَالَ : فَنَكَتَ بِإِصْبَعِهِ فِي الْأَرْضِ، وَنَكَسَ سَاعَةً.
ثُمَّ رَفَعَ إِلَيْنَا رَأْسَهُ، فَقَالَ : " هَلْ تَدْرُونَ مَا يَقُولُ رَبُّكُمْ؟ "، قَالَ : قُلْنَا : اللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُ أَعْلَمُ، قَالَ : إِنَّهُ يَقُولُ :" مَنْ صَلَّى الصَّلَاةَ لِوَقْتِهَا، فَأَقَامَ حَدَّهَا، كَانَ لَهُ بِهِ عَلَيَّ عَهْدٌ أُدْخِلُهُ الْجَنَّةَ، وَمَنْ لَمْ يُصَلِّ الصَّلَاةَ لِوَقْتِهَا، وَلَمْ يُقِمْ حَدَّهَا، لَمْ يَكُنْ لَهُ عِنْدِي عَهْدٌ، إِنْ شِئْتُ أَدْخَلْتُهُ النَّارَ، وَإِنْ شِئْتُ أَدْخَلْتُهُ الْجَنَّةَ "

Abu Nu`aym told us, Abd al-Rahman told us, he is Ibn al-Nu`man al-Ansari, Sa`d bin Ishaq bin Ka`b bin Ujrah told me. Al-Ansari, on the authority of his father, on the authority of Ka’b, said: The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, came out against us while we were in the mosque, seven of them: three of us. Our Arabs and four of our loyalists, or four of our Arabs and three of our loyalists. He said: Then the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, came out against us from some of them. He sat in his lap until he sat down to us, and he said: “Why are you sitting here?” We said: Waiting for prayer. He said: So he stuck his finger on the ground, and it remained for an hour.
Then he raised his head to us and said: “Do you know what your Lord says?” He said: We said: God and His Messenger know best. He said: He says: “Whoever prays the prayer At that time, so he established its limit. He had a covenant with me through which I would admit him to Paradise. And whoever does not perform the prayer at its time and does not perform its limit, there is no “He has a covenant with Me: If I wish, I can admit him to Hell, and if I wish, I can admit him to Paradise.”