before the setting of the sun. Agreed upon. And from Abū Umāmah ibn Sahl, who said: We prayed the Zhuhr with ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, then we went out until we entered upon Anas ibn Mālik, and we found him praying the ʿAṣr. We said: O Abū Ḥamzah, what is this prayer that you have prayed? He said: The ʿAṣr, and this is the prayer of the Messenger of God, peace and blessings of God be upon him, which we used to pray with him. Agreed upon. And from Abū al-Malīḥ, who said: We were with Buraydah on an expedition on a cloudy day, and he said: Hasten the ʿAṣr prayer, for the Prophet, peace and blessings of God be upon him, said: 'Whoever misses the ʿAṣr prayer, his deeds are rendered void.' Reported by al-Bukhārī. It is narrated from the Prophet, peace and blessings of God be upon him, that he said: 'The first time of the prayer is the pleasure of God, and the last time is the pardon of God.' It is narrated by ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar al-ʿUmarī. Abū ʿĪsā said: This is a gharīb (strange) hadith. As for the hadith of Rāfiʿ which they used as evidence, it is not authentic. Al-Tirmidhī said this. Al-Dāraquṭnī said: ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Nāfiʿ narrates it, and he is not strong, and it is not authentic from Rāfiʿ nor from any other of the Companions. The authentic position from them is the hastening of the ʿAṣr prayer and performing it early.
الحواشي
- (46) Narrated by al-Bukhārī, in: Chapter on partnership in food and the nuhd, from the Book of Partnership. Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 3/180. And Muslim, in: Chapter on the recommendation of performing the afternoon prayer early, from the Book of Mosques. Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 1/435. It was also narrated by Imam Aḥmad, in: al-Musnad 4/141-143.
- (47) Omitted from M.
- (48) In M: "O Abū ʿUmāra." In the following takhrīj sources: "O uncle." The kunya of Anas—may God be pleased with him—is Abū Ḥamza. See: Usd al-Ghāba 1/151.
- (49) In M: "Narrated by al-Bukhārī and Muslim." They are synonymous. Narrated by al-Bukhārī, in: Chapter on the time of the afternoon prayer, from the Book of Times. Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 1/144, 145. And Muslim, in: Chapter on the recommendation of performing the afternoon prayer early, from the Book of Mosques. Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 1/434. It was also narrated by al-Nasāʾī, in: Chapter on hastening the afternoon prayer, from the Book of Times. al-Mujtabā 1/203.
- (50) In the manuscripts: "Abū Burayda"—an error.
- (51) In M: "for the prayer."
- (52) The takhrīj of the hadith was provided on page 23.
- (53) Meaning: from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar. The hadith was provided on page 35.
- (54) In: Chapter on what has been narrated regarding hastening the afternoon prayer, from the Chapters on Prayer. ʿĀriḍat al-Aḥwadhī 1/270.
- (55) In: Chapter on the mention of the explanation of the times and the difference of narrations regarding that, from the Book of Prayer. Sunan al-Dāraquṭnī 1/251, 252.
