On the authority of his grandfather ʿAlī ibn Shaybān, who said: We arrived in Medina to see the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. He would delay the ʿAṣr prayer as long as the sun remained white and clear.¹

409 — ʿUthmān ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us: Yaḥyā ibn Zakariyyā ibn Abī Zāʾidah and Yazīd ibn Hārūn narrated to us, from Hishām ibn Ḥassān, from Muḥammad, from ʿAbīdah, from ʿAlī, may Allah be pleased with him, that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said on the Day of the Trench: "They have kept us from the middle prayer, the ʿAṣr prayer. May Allah fill their houses and their graves with fire."²

410 — Al-Qaʿnabī narrated to us, from Mālik, from Zayd ibn Aslam, from al-Qaʿqāʿ ibn Ḥakīm, from Abū Yūnus, the freed slave of ʿĀʾishah, that he said:

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¹ Its chain of transmission is weak; Muḥammad ibn Yazīd al-Yamāmī and Yazīd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAlī ibn Shaybān are unknown.
It was also narrated by Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr in *al-Tamhīd* 1/298–299, and by al-Mizzī in his biography of Yazīd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān in *Tahdhīb al-Kamāl* 32/188, from the path of the author, with this chain.

² Its chain of transmission is sound. ʿAbīdah is Ibn ʿAmr al-Salmānī.
It was also narrated by al-Bukhārī (2931), Muslim (627) (202) and (203), al-Tirmidhī (3226), and al-Nasāʾī in *al-Kubrā* (357) via two paths from ʿAbīdah al-Salmānī, with this chain.
It was also narrated by Muslim (627) (204) and (205), and Ibn Mājah (684) via multiple paths from ʿAlī.
It is also in *Musnad Aḥmad* (591) and (617).
Imam al-Nawawī said: What the sound hadiths indicate is that it is the ʿAṣr prayer, and this is the preferred view. Al-Māwardī said that al-Shāfiʿī explicitly stated it is the dawn prayer, but the hadiths established that it is the ʿAṣr prayer, so this seems to be his view, given his statement: "When a hadith is sound, it is my view, and strike my view against the wall." Al-Ṭībī said: This is the view of many of the Companions and the Successors, and Abū Ḥanīfah, Aḥmad, and Dāwūd adopted it, and the hadith is explicit on this.