45 - Chapter on At-Tathwīb (the second call to prayer)

538 - Muhammad ibn Kathir narrated to us, Sufyan informed us, Abu Yahya al-Qattat narrated to us, from Mujahid, who said:
I was with Ibn 'Umar when a man made the tathwīb during the Zuhr or 'Asr prayer. He said: "Leave with us, for this is an innovation."(1)

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He is Ibn Sawwar, and Isra'il is Ibn Yunus al-Sabi'i.
Al-Tirmidhi also narrated it (200) via Isra'il, with this chain, and deemed it good (hasan).
Muslim also narrated it in a similar form (606) via Zuhayr ibn Mu'awiyah, from Simak, with it.
It is also in "Musnad Ahmad" (20804).

(1) A good (hasan) hadith. Abu Yahya al-Qattat — although he is weak in hadith — has been corroborated. Sufyan is al-Thawri, and Mujahid is Ibn Jabr al-Makki.
Al-Bayhaqi also narrated it in 1/424 via the author's chain.
Al-Tabarani also narrated it (13486) via Muhammad ibn Kathir, with it.
'Abd al-Razzaq also narrated it (1832) via Layth ibn Abi Sulaym, from Mujahid, with it.
And Layth is poor in memorization.

Al-Tirmidhi said in his "Jami'" following the hadith (196): The scholars differed regarding the interpretation of at-tathwīb. Some said: at-tathwīb is that one says in the adhan of Fajr: "Prayer is better than sleep" — and this is the saying of Ibn al-Mubarak and Ahmad. Ishaq said something other than this regarding at-tathwīb. He said: It is something that people innovated after the Prophet, peace be upon him. When the mu'adhdhin gave the adhan and the people were slow to come, he would say between the adhan and the iqamah: "The prayer has been established, come to prayer, come to success." This that Ishaq mentioned is the tathwīb that the scholars disliked, and that people innovated after the Prophet, peace be upon him. As for what Ibn al-Mubarak and Ahmad interpreted — that at-tathwīb is that the mu'adhdhin says in the adhan of Fajr: "Prayer is better than sleep" — it is a sound saying, also called "at-tathwīb," and it is what the scholars chose and approved of. Then he mentioned this hadith of Ibn 'Umar and said: Abdullah only disliked the tathwīb that people innovated afterward.