the sun. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "Let every man among you take the head of his mount, for this is a place where the Devil was present." He said: So we did so. Then he called for water and performed ablution, then he performed two prostrations, then the prayer was called, and he performed the morning prayer. Abu Qatadah and Imran ibn Husayn narrated similar to it. It is agreed upon (58).
[And it is recommended to perform the two Rak'ahs of the Fajr prayer before the obligatory prayer, due to what has preceded from the Hadith. If he wishes to perform a voluntary prayer other than it, it is disliked for him, and the same is the rule for fasting; he should not perform voluntary fasting while he has an obligatory one, although if he does so, his voluntary act is valid, as evidenced by the Hadith of Ibn Umar regarding the one who forgets an obligatory prayer and does not remember it until he is behind the Imam, as he completes it, and it was ruled to be valid. As for the regular Sunan, it is not disliked to perform them before the obligatory prayers, as we mentioned regarding the two Rak'ahs of Fajr] (59).
Chapter: If he delays the prayer due to sleep or otherwise, until he fears (60) the time will expire if he occupies himself with the two Rak'ahs of Fajr, he begins with the obligatory prayer, [and delays the two Rak'ahs] (59). Ahmad explicitly stated this [in a narration of a group, among them: Abu al-Harith, who reported from him that if he wakes up before the sunrise and fears the sun will rise, he begins with the obligatory prayer] (59); for if the present prayer is given precedence over the missed prayer while disregarding the obligatory sequence in order to observe the time of the present one, then giving it precedence over the Sunnah is more deserving. Likewise, if he wakes up and does not know whether the sun has risen or not, he begins with the obligatory prayer as well (61), as Ahmad explicitly stated (61); because the fundamental principle is that the time remains and it is possible to [perform the obligatory prayer] (62) within it.
(58) In MS (m): "agreed upon it". The author used the term generally, and it will become clear that what is agreed upon is the Hadith of Imran ibn Husayn. As for the Hadith of Abu Hurayrah, it is the one whose citation was provided earlier. As for the Hadith of Abu Qatadah, it was also reported by Muslim in the previous chapter. Sahih Muslim 1/472-474. The Hadith of Imran ibn Husayn was reported by Al-Bukhari in: Chapter on Signs of Prophethood, from the Book of Virtues. Sahih Al-Bukhari 4/232-233. And by Muslim, in the aforementioned chapter. Sahih Muslim 1/474-476. Following this in the original manuscript is an addition: "And in all of them it states that he performed the two Rak'ahs of Fajr, and that he performed the prayer with his companions in congregation, thus performing it in congregation is recommended..." up to what appears in the chapter following the chapter on 'If he delays the prayer due to sleep'. This is from MS (m). (59) Omitted from: The original. (60) In MS (m): "feared". (61) Omitted from: The original.
