about the Maghrib. He said: And he used to like to delay the ʿishāʾ, which you call the ʿatama, and he used to dislike sleeping before it and talking after it. And he would finish the morning prayer when a man could recognize his companion, and he would recite between sixty and one hundred verses. Jābir said: The Prophet, peace and blessings of God be upon him, used to pray the Ẓuhr in the midday heat, the ʿAṣr while the sun was pure, the Maghrib when it set, and the ʿishāʾ sometimes, and sometimes when he saw them gathered he would hasten, and when he saw them slow he would delay. And the Ṣubḥ, the Prophet, peace and blessings of God be upon him, used to pray it in the darkness of the end of the night. Agreed upon. Al-Umawī narrated in al-Maghāzī a hadith which he traced back to ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Ghanm, who said: Muʿādh b. Jabal narrated to us, saying: When the Messenger of God, peace and blessings of God be upon him, sent me to Yemen, he said: "Manifest the major and minor aspects of Islam, and let the major aspect be the prayer, for it is the head of Islam after
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- (3) A completion from Sahih al-Bukhari.
- (4) Not in Sahih al-Bukhari.
- (5) Omitted from M.
- (6) Al-ghalas: the darkness of the end of the night.
- (7) The first was recorded by al-Bukhari, in: Chapter on the time of the Dhuhr prayer at the zenith, and Chapter on what is disliked of staying up late after the Isha prayer, from the Book of Times. Sahih al-Bukhari 1/143, 155. And Muslim, in: Chapter on the recommendation of performing the Subh prayer early at the beginning of its time, from the Book of Mosques. Sahih Muslim 1/447. It was also recorded by Abu Dawud, in: Chapter on the time of the prayer of the Prophet, peace and blessings of God be upon him, and how he used to pray it, from the Book of Prayer. Sunan Abi Dawud 1/96. And al-Nasa'i, in: Chapter on the dislike of sleeping after the Maghrib prayer, and Chapter on what is recommended of delaying the Isha prayer, from the Book of Times. al-Mujtaba 1/210, 212. And Ibn Majah, in: Chapter on the time of the Dhuhr prayer, from the Book of Prayer. Sunan Ibn Majah 1/221. And al-Darimi, in: Chapter on the length of recitation in the Fajr prayer, from the Book of Prayer. Sunan al-Darimi 1/298. And Imam Ahmad, in: al-Musnad 4/420, 423. The second was recorded by al-Bukhari, in: Chapter on the time of the Dhuhr prayer at the zenith (the heading), and Chapter on the time of the Maghrib prayer, and Chapter on the time of the Isha prayer when people gather or are delayed, from the Book of Times. Sahih al-Bukhari 1/143, 147, 148. And Muslim, in: Chapter on the recommendation of performing the Subh prayer early at the beginning of its time, from the Book of Mosques. Sahih Muslim 1/446. It was also recorded by Abu Dawud, in: Chapter on the time of the prayer of the Prophet, peace and blessings of God be upon him, and how he used to pray it, from the Book of Prayer. Sunan Abi Dawud 1/95. And al-Nasa'i, in: Chapter on hastening the Isha prayer, from the Book of Times. al-Mujtaba 1/212. And Imam Ahmad, in: al-Musnad 3/469.
- (8) Abu Ayyub Yahya ibn Sa'id ibn Aban al-Umawi al-Kufi, author of the book al-Maghazi, who died in the year 194 AH. Excerpts from this book of his are found in some books. See: Tarikh al-Turath al-'Arabi 1/2/97, 98.
- (9) 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Ghanm al-Ash'ari, whose status as a Companion is disputed; he died in the year 78 AH. Tahdhib al-Tahdhib 6/250.
- (10) In M: "kabiruha" (its elder).
