or performing the Tarawih in another congregation. According to Ahmad, there is no harm in it, because Anas ibn Malik said: 'They only return for goodness they hope for or for a harm they fear.' He did not view any harm in it. Muhammad ibn al-Hakam narrated from him the disapproval thereof, but that is an old opinion, and the practice is based on what the group (al-jama'ah) narrated. Abu Bakr said: If he delays [the prayer] to the middle of the night, or to its end, it is not disapproved, according to a single narration. The disagreement only pertains to when they return before sleep, and the correct view is that it is not disapproved; for it is goodness and obedience, so it is not disapproved, just as if he had delayed it to the end of the night.
Section: Regarding concluding the Quran: Al-Fadl ibn Ziyad said: I asked Abu Abd Allah, and I said: I am completing the Quran, should I place the conclusion in the Witr or the Tarawih? He said: Place it in the Tarawih, so that we may have a supplication between two (rak'ahs). I said: How should I proceed? He said: When you finish the end of the Quran, raise your hands before you bow, and supplicate with us while we are in prayer, and lengthen the standing. I said: With what should I supplicate? He said: With whatever you wish. He said: So I did as he commanded me, and he was behind me supplicating while standing, [and he raised his hands, and Hanbal said]: I heard Ahmad say regarding concluding the Quran: When you finish the recitation of 'Qul a'udhu bi-rabbi al-nas' (Surat al-Nas), raise your hands in supplication before bowing. I said: To what do you incline regarding this? He said: I saw the people of Makkah doing it, and Sufyan ibn Uyaynah used to do it with them in Makkah. Al-Abbas ibn Abd al-Azim said: And this is how I caught the people in Basra and in Makkah. The people of Madinah narrate something regarding this, and it was mentioned from Uthman ibn Affan.
Section: Our companions differed regarding the night prayer of the Day of Doubt (Yawm al-Shakk); it was narrated from the Qadi that he said:
(27) Omitted from: A, M. (28) In M: "with what". (29) In M: "and raises his hands, he said". (30) Abu al-Fadl al-Abbas ibn Abd al-Azim al-Anbari al-Basri, the Hafiz, one of the scholars of the Sunnah, died in the year 246 AH. Al-'Ibar 1/446. (31) In M: "we caught".
