1066 — Musaddad narrated to us: Isma‘il narrated to us: ‘Abd al-Hamid, the companion of al-Ziyadi, informed me: ‘Abdullah ibn al-Harith, the cousin of Muhammad ibn Sirin, narrated to us that Ibn ‘Abbas said to his muezzin on a rainy day: “When you say, ‘I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah,’ do not say, ‘Come to prayer’ — rather say, ‘Pray in your homes.’” It seemed that the people disapproved of that, so he said: “One better than me did this. Indeed, Friday prayer is an obligation, and I disliked to bring you out so that you would walk in mud and rain.”

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= Ibn ‘Umar, Samurah, Abu al-Malih on the authority of his father, and ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn Samurah [also narrated similarly]. The people of knowledge permitted staying away from the congregational prayer and the Friday prayer in rain and mud, and Ahmad and Ishaq held this view.

It is in *Musnad Ahmad* (14347) and *Sahih Ibn Hibban* (2082).

(1) Its chain is sound. ‘Abd al-Hamid, the companion of al-Ziyadi: he is Ibn Dinar, and Isma‘il: he is Ibn ‘Ulayyah, and Musaddad: he is Ibn Musarhad.
Al-Bukhari (616) and Muslim (699) also transmitted it via the route of ‘Abd al-Hamid ibn Dinar, the companion of al-Ziyadi, from him.
Al-Bukhari (616), Muslim (699), and Ibn Majah (939) also transmitted it via the route of ‘Asim ibn Sulayman al-Ahwal, and Muslim (699) via the route of Ayyub al-Sakhtiyani — both of them from ‘Abdullah ibn al-Harith, from him. In some of Muslim’s routes via Ayyub, Wuhaib said: “He did not hear it from him.” Al-Hafiz Rashid al-Din al-‘Attar said in *Ghurar al-Fawa’id*: Muslim only included Wuhaib’s hadith to draw attention — and Allah knows best — to the confusion in it regarding Ayyub, because Wuhaib was among the memorizers and trustworthy narrators of Basra, except that Hammad ibn Zayd was more reliable regarding Ayyub than anyone else, as we have previously mentioned from Yahya ibn Ma‘in. For this reason, Muslim gave precedence to his hadith over Wuhaib’s hadith. Moreover, even if we concede that Ayyub did not hear it from ‘Abdullah ibn al-Harith, we have shown that it is connected in Muslim’s book and elsewhere via the narration of more than one narrator from him. And with Allah is success.
Ibn Majah (938) also transmitted via the route of ‘Abbad ibn Mansur, from ‘Ata’, from Ibn ‘Abbas, from the Prophet ﷺ that he said on a Friday that was a rainy day: “Pray in your dwellings.”
It is in *Musnad Ahmad* (2503).