Umm Habiba, the wife of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: "Whoever preserves four rak'ahs before the noon prayer and four after it, God will make the Fire forbidden to him."(1) Abu Dawud said: Al-'Ala' ibn al-Harith and Sulayman ibn Musa narrated it from Makhul similarly.

1270 - Ibn al-Muthanna narrated to us, Muhammad ibn Ja'far narrated to us, Shu'ba narrated to us, saying: I heard 'Ubayda narrating, from Ibrahim, from Ibn Minjab, from Qartha', from Abu Ayyub, from the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, who said: "Four [rak'ahs] before the noon prayer, with no taslim between them, for which the gates of heaven are opened."(2)

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(1) A good hadith, but this chain is disconnected. Al-Nasa'i said following it: Makhul did not hear anything from 'Anbasa. Al-Bukhari said the same, as transmitted from him by al-Tirmidhi in "Al-'Ilal al-Kabir" 1/160. Abu Zur'a and Hisham ibn 'Ammar also said the same, as in al-Mundhiri's "Ikhtisar al-Sunan" 2/79. However, the hadith has come through another route, as will follow. Al-Nu'man: he is Ibn al-Mundhir al-Ghassani.

Al-Nasa'i also recorded it in "Al-Kubra" (1485) and (1491) through two routes from Makhul, with this chain. Al-Tirmidhi (430) and al-Nasa'i (1489) recorded it through al-Qasim ibn 'Abd al-Rahman; al-Nasa'i (1484) through Hassan ibn 'Atiyya; and al-Tirmidhi (429) and al-Nasa'i (1490) through 'Abdullah al-Sha'ithi — all three of them from 'Anbasa, with it. It is in "Musnad Ahmad" (26764) and (26772).

Al-Nasa'i (1486) also recorded it through Sulayman ibn Musa al-Ashdaq, from Muhammad ibn Abi Sufyan, from his sister Umm Habiba, with it. Al-Mizzi said in his biography of Muhammad ibn Abi Sufyan: Marwan ibn Muhammad said, from Sa'id ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz, from Sulayman ibn Musa, from Makhul, from 'Anbasa ibn Abi Sufyan, from his sister. And thus said more than one narrator from Makhul, and this is the preserved version.

(2) Good due to corroboration, but this chain is weak due to the weakness of 'Ubayda — who is Ibn Mu'attib al-Dabbi — and the weakness of Qartha' al-Dabbi. Moreover, it is disordered (mudtarib), as we have clarified in "Musnad Ahmad" (23532). Ibrahim: he is Ibn Yazid al-Nakha'i.