He freed four of the descendants of Ishmael, and verily, sitting with a people who remember Allah from the afternoon prayer until the sun sets is more beloved to me than freeing four.

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(1) Its chain of transmission is good (ḥasan) due to Mūsā ibn Khalaf al-ʿAmmī, for he is truthful (ṣadūq) with good ḥadīth.
Al-Ṭabarānī recorded it in "Al-Duʿāʾ" (1878) and al-Bayhaqī in "Shuʿab al-Īmān" (561) via two chains from Mūsā ibn Khalaf, from him.
Al-Bayhaqī also recorded it in "Al-Sunan al-Kubrā" 8/79, and in "Shuʿab al-Īmān" (562) via the chain of Mūsā ibn Khalaf, from Qatādah, from Anas, and Yazīd al-Raqqāshī from Anas, raising it to the Prophet: "Verily, sitting with a people who remember Allah from the morning prayer until the sun rises is more beloved to me than everything upon which the sun has risen, and verily, sitting with a people who remember Allah from the afternoon prayer until the sunset prayer is more beloved to me than freeing eight of the descendants of Ishmael, the blood-money of each of them being twelve thousand." We say: this is the wording of the ḥadīth of Yazīd al-Raqqāshī. That is because al-Bayhaqī recorded it from his chain alone in "Al-Sunan al-Kubrā" 8/38, and in "Shuʿab al-Īmān" (560) with this wording. And Yazīd al-Raqqāshī is weak in ḥadīth.
It was also recorded in abbreviated form mentioning the sitting from the afternoon prayer until sunset by Ibn al-Sunnī in "ʿAmal al-Yawm wa al-Laylah" (670) via the chain of al-Muʿallā ibn Ziyād, from Yazīd al-Raqqāshī, from Anas.
It is found with al-Bayhaqī in "Shuʿab al-Īmān" (563) with Yazīd al-Raqqāshī omitted from its chain, and the correct version includes him, as in the narration of Ibn al-Sunnī.
Ibn ʿAdī recorded it in "Al-Kāmil" 7/2674, and al-Bayhaqī in "Al-Shuʿab" (559) via the chain of Yaḥyā ibn ʿĪsā al-Ramlī, from al-Aʿmash, from Anas ibn Mālik. However, he said: "More beloved to me than the world and all that is in it" for both times. And Yaḥyā ibn ʿĪsā is weak, and al-Aʿmash did not hear from Anas, as stated by Ibn al-Madīnī, al-Bukhārī, Ibn Maʿīn, and others.
Al-Tirmidhī recorded (593) via the chain of Abū Ẓilāl Hilāl ibn Abī Hilāl, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "Whoever prays the morning prayer in congregation, then sits remembering Allah until the sun rises, then prays two rakʿahs, will have the reward of a complete Ḥajj and ʿUmrah." He said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "Complete, complete, complete." Al-Tirmidhī said: A ḥasan gharīb ḥadīth.