"do not do so except [that one of you] recites the Opening of the Book, for there is no prayer for the one who does not recite it" (Mālik, al-Ḥumaydī, and al-Bukhārī in his section). then he prohibited them from reciting aloud during the audible prayers. This was when he (finished a prayer in which he recited aloud (in another narration: it was the morning prayer) and said: "Did any of you recite with me just now?" A man said: "Yes, I did, O Messenger of Allāh." He said: "I am saying: 'Why am I being contended with?'" [Abū Hurayrah said:] So the people refrained from reciting with the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) in what the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) recited aloud—when they heard that from the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) [and they recited to themselves silently in what the imam did not recite aloud]. He made listening to the imam's recitation part of the completion of following him and said: (Muslim and Abū ʿAwānah) "The imam is only appointed to be followed, so when he says the takbīr, say the takbīr, and when he recites, listen attentively."