the sun and before its setting} (16). The Prophet, peace and blessings of God be upon him, said: "Angels of the night and angels of the day succeed one another among you, and they gather at the dawn prayer and the ʿAṣr prayer. Then those who stayed among you ascend, and He asks them—while He is more knowing of them—'How did you leave My servants?' They say: 'We left them while they were praying, and we came to them while they were praying.'" The Prophet, peace and blessings of God be upon him, said: "Whoever prays the two cool prayers will enter Paradise," meaning these two prayers. He also said: "If they knew what was in [the ʿAtamah and morning prayers] (17), they would come to them even if by crawling." These hadiths are agreed upon (18). It was said: It is the Maghrib, because the first is Ẓuhr, so Maghrib would be the third, and the third of every
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- (16) Surah Ṭā Hā 130.
- (17) In the original: "The Dawn and the Evening (al-ʿIshāʾ)".
- (18) As for the first, it was recorded by al-Bukhārī, in: Chapter on the Excellence of the Afternoon Prayer, from the Book of Times, and in: Chapter on the Mention of the Angels, from the Book of the Beginning of Creation, and in: Chapter on His saying, the Almighty: {The angels and the Spirit ascend to Him}, and Chapter on the Lord's Speech with Gabriel, from the Book of Tawḥīd. Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 1/145, 4/138, 9/154, 174. And Muslim, in: Chapter on the Excellence of the Dawn and Afternoon Prayers and Maintaining Them, from the Book of Mosques. Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 1/439. It was also recorded by al-Nasāʾī, in: Chapter on the Excellence of Congregational Prayer, from the Book of Prayer. al-Mujtabā 1/194. And Imām Mālik, in: Chapter on the Comprehensive (Jāmiʿ) of Prayer, from the Book of Travel. al-Muwaṭṭaʾ 1/170. And Imām Aḥmad, in: al-Musnad 2/257, 312, 396, 486. As for the second, it was recorded by al-Bukhārī, in: Chapter on the Excellence of the Dawn Prayer, from the Book of Times. Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 1/150. And Muslim, in: Chapter on the Excellence of the Dawn and Afternoon Prayers and Maintaining Them, from the Book of Mosques. Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 1/440. It was also recorded by al-Dārimī, in: Chapter on the Excellence of the Dawn and Afternoon Prayers, from the Book of Prayer. Sunan al-Dārimī 1/332. And Imām Aḥmad, in: al-Musnad 4/80. As for the third, it was recorded by al-Bukhārī, in: Chapter on Drawing Lots for the Call to Prayer, and Chapter on the Excellence of Hastening to the Noon Prayer, and Chapter on the First Row, from the Book of the Call to Prayer (Adhān), and in: Chapter on Drawing Lots in Difficult Matters, from the Book of Testimonies. Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 1/160, 167, 3/238. And Muslim, in: Chapter on Straightening the Rows and Establishing Them, from the Book of Prayer, and in: Chapter on the Excellence of Congregational Prayer and the Severity of Missing It, from the Book of Mosques. Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 1/325, 451, 452. And Abū Dāwūd, in: Chapter on the Excellence of the Friday Prayer, from the Book of Prayer. Sunan Abī Dāwūd 1/131. And al-Nasāʾī, in: Chapter on the Concession to Call the Evening Prayer 'al-ʿAtamah', from the Book of Times, and in: Chapter on Drawing Lots for the Call to Prayer, from the Book of the Call to Prayer. al-Mujtabā 1/216, 2/9. And Ibn Mājah, in: Chapter on the Evening and Dawn Prayers in Congregation, from the Book of Mosques. Sunan Ibn Mājah 1/261. And al-Dārimī, in: Chapter on Which of the Two Prayers is Heaviest for the Hypocrites, and Chapter on Those Who Miss the Prayer, from the Book of Prayer. Sunan al-Dārimī 1/291, 292. And Imām Mālik, in: Chapter on What Has Been Said Regarding the Call to Prayer, from the Book of the Call, and in: What Has Been Said Regarding the Evening and Dawn Prayers, from the Book of Congregation. al-Muwaṭṭaʾ 1/68, 131. And Imām Aḥmad, in: al-Musnad 2/236, 278, 303, 375, 376, 424, 466, 472, 479, 531, 533.
