262 - Chapter: Recitation in the Eclipse Prayer

1187 - ʿUbaydullah ibn Saʿd narrated to us, saying: My uncle narrated to us, saying: My father narrated to us, from Muhammad ibn Isḥāq, saying: Hishām ibn ʿUrwah narrated to me, and ʿAbdullah ibn Abī Salamah, from Sulaymān ibn Yasār — each of them narrated to me from ʿUrwah, from ʿĀ'ishah, who said: The sun was eclipsed during the time of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, so the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, went out and led the people in prayer. He stood, and I estimated his recitation, and I thought that he recited Sūrat al-Baqarah. And she related the hadith, then he prostrated two prostrations, then he stood and lengthened the recitation, and I estimated his recitation, and I thought that he recited Sūrat Āl ʿImrān.

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= Also narrated by al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Kabīr" 18/ (958), al-Bayhaqī 3/ 334, and al-Mizzī in the biography of Hilāl ibn ʿĀmir from "Tahdhīb al-Kamāl" 30/ 341 - 342 via the route of ʿAbbād ibn Manṣūr; and al-Ṭabarānī 18/ (957), and al-Mizzī 30/ 341 via the route of Unays ibn Sawār al-Jarmī — both of them from Ayyūb, from Abū Qilābah, from Hilāl ibn ʿĀmir, that Qabīṣah narrated to him. Unays ibn Sawār: a group narrated from him, and Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned him in "al-Thiqāt."

And look at what precedes it.

(1) Its chain is ḥasan because of Muhammad ibn Isḥāq, and he explicitly stated that he heard it, so any suspicion of his tadlīs is removed. ʿUbaydullah ibn Saʿd: he is the son of Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf, and his uncle is Yaʿqūb.

Also narrated by al-Ḥākim 1/ 333 - 334, and al-Bayhaqī 3/ 335 via the route of ʿUbaydullah ibn Saʿd, with this chain.

And look at what follows it.

We say: The indication of this hadith regarding reciting silently in the eclipse prayer is by the implication of ʿĀ'ishah's statement: "I estimated his recitation, and I thought that he recited Sūrat al-Baqarah..." — because this is understood to mean that she did not hear the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and this means that he recited silently. However, there has come from ʿĀ'ishah with a more authentic chain than this — namely the hadith that follows this one in the author's collection, in which ʿĀ'ishah explicitly stated that he, peace and blessings be upon him, recited aloud — so what she explicitly stated regarding reciting aloud is given precedence for two reasons: the first reason is that it has a more authentic chain, and the second reason is that what she explicitly stated regarding reciting aloud =