1195 - Musaddad narrated to us, Bishr ibn al-Mufaddal narrated to us, al-Jurayri narrated to us, from Hayyan ibn Umayr, from Abd al-Rahman ibn Samurah, who said: While I was shooting arrows during the lifetime of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, the sun was eclipsed. So I threw them aside and said, "I will surely see what the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, has introduced today regarding the solar eclipse." I came to him while he was raising his hands, glorifying, praising, declaring His oneness, and supplicating, until the sun was uncovered. Then he recited two surahs and performed two bowings in two rak'ahs.

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As for the hadith of Ya'la ibn Ata, we do not know of anyone who narrated it except Mu'ammal, from al-Thawri, who combined them. Combining multiple teachers is a method adopted by one whose memory is weak, doubting what he was narrated, not that he heard everything, as al-Hafiz Ibn Rajab clarified in "Sharh al-'Ilal."

The hadith of this chapter appears in al-Bukhari (1051) and Muslim (910), from Abd Allah ibn Amr ibn al-As, who said: When the sun was eclipsed during the time of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, it was proclaimed: "The prayer is gathering." The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, bowed two bowings in one prostration, then stood and bowed two bowings in one prostration, then sat, then the sun was uncovered.

See also the hadith of Aisha mentioned previously under number (1180), and the hadith of Ibn Abbas under number (1181).

We say: It has been established that the eclipse prayer consists of two rak'ahs like the customary prayers, from the hadith of Samurah ibn Jundub in Ahmad's "Musnad" (20178), from the hadith of Abu Bakrah in al-Bukhari (1040), from the hadith of Qabisah in Ahmad (20607), from the hadith of al-Nu'man ibn Bashir in the author's collection (1193), from the hadith of Mahmud ibn Labid in Ahmad (23629), and from the hadith of Abd al-Rahman ibn Samurah in Muslim (913). See also "Nasb al-Rayah" 2/227-230.

Abu Hanifah, his followers, and Sufyan al-Thawri used these hadiths as evidence that the eclipse prayer is like the customary prayers, containing only two bowings in two rak'ahs. See "Ikhtilaf al-'Ulama'" 1/380-382.

(1) Its chain of transmission is authentic. Al-Jurayri — who is Sa'id ibn Iyas — Bishr ibn al-Mufaddal heard from him before his confusion. Musaddad: he is Ibn Musarhad. =