in Hajj there are two prostrations: Umar, Ali, Abdullah ibn Umar, Abu al-Darda', Abu Musa, Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami, Abu al-'Aliyah, and Zirr (2). Ibn Abbas said: The Surah (3) of Hajj has been distinguished by two prostrations. Al-Hasan, Sa'id ibn Jubayr, Jabir ibn Zayd, al-Nakha'i, Malik, and Abu Hanifah said: The latter one is not a prostration (4); because it combined both bowing (ruku') and prostration (sujud) within it. For the Almighty said: {O you who have believed, bow and prostrate} (5). Thus, it was not a [specific] prostration, like the statement of the Almighty: {O Mary, be devoutly obedient to your Lord and prostrate and bow with those who bow} (6). Our evidence is the hadith of Amr ibn al-'As, which we have [already] (7) mentioned. And from Uqbah ibn Amir, who said: I said to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him): Are there two prostrations in Surah (8) al-Hajj? He replied: "Yes, and whoever does not perform them should not recite them." Recorded by Abu Dawud and al-Athram (9). Also because it (10) is the view of those we named among the Companions, [and no opponent was known to them] (11) [in their era] (12), so it is (13) considered a consensus. Abu Ishaq said: I have known people for seventy years prostrating
(2) Abu Maryam Zirr ibn Hubaysh ibn Hubashah al-Asadi al-Kufi, the reciter of Kufa. He reached the days of the Jahiliyyah, was trustworthy, and a transmitter of many hadiths. He died in the year 81 AH. Siyar A'lam al-Nubala 4/166-170. (3) Omitted from: The original. (4) In (M): "The last one is a prostration". (5) Surah al-Hajj, 77. (6) Surah Al Imran, 43. (7) In (M): "which". The hadith preceded on page 352. (8) Omitted from: (M). (9) Recorded by Abu Dawud, in: Chapter on the subdivision of the chapters of prostration, from the Book of Prostration. Sunan Abi Dawud 1/324. It was also recorded by al-Tirmidhi, in: Chapter on what has been reported regarding the prostration in Hajj, from the Chapters of Friday. 'Aridat al-Ahwadhi 3/59. And by Imam Ahmad, in: al-Musnad 4/151, 155. (10) In (M): "And also, it is". (11) In (M): "no opponent of them was known to us". (12) Omitted from: The original. (13) In (M): "it becomes".
