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= Ibn Ḥibbān declared it defective due to the sequel of the ḥadīth (2854) 7/98, and al-Bayhaqī in *al-Sunan* 3/327, on the grounds that Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit was a mudallis who practiced ʿanʿanah (ambiguous transmission), and Ibn Ḥibbān asserted definitively that Ḥabīb did not hear this report from Ṭāwūs.

It was also declared defective due to the defect of shādhdh (irregularity), for more than one narrator reported from Ibn ʿAbbās that it was four rakʿahs and four prostrations.

The ḥadīth is in *al-Sunan al-Kubrā* under numbers (511) and (1863).

Ibn Abī Shaybah (8386), Aḥmad (1975), and Muslim (908): (18) also transmitted it via the path of Ismāʿīl ibn ʿUlayyah, with this chain of transmission.

Ibn Abī Shaybah (8386) also transmitted it from Ibn Numayr, from Sufyān al-Thawrī, with it.

Wakīʿ contradicted Ibn ʿUlayyah, Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān — as in the following narration — and Ibn Numayr — as will come in narration (1469) — in what Ibn Abī Shaybah transmitted (8387), for he narrated it from al-Thawrī, from Ḥabīb, from Ṭāwūs, from the Prophet ﷺ as mursal (with the Companion omitted from the chain), not mentioning Ibn ʿAbbās in it.

ʿAbd al-Razzāq narrated it in his *Muṣannaf* (4935) from al-Thawrī, from Ḥabīb, that he prayed the eclipse prayer, then recited, then bowed four rakʿahs in each prostration, except that when he raised his head from the bowing, he recited, then prostrated. Thus Ḥabīb here contradicted, by his own action, his narration with the addition of recitation after the final bowing and before the prostration, and he did not mention that from Ṭāwūs from Ibn ʿAbbās.

Sulaymān ibn Abī Muslim al-Aḥwal narrated it from Ṭāwūs, and there is disagreement regarding him concerning its text:

Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah narrated it — in what al-Shāfiʿī transmitted in his *Musnad* (870), Ibn al-Mundhir in *al-Awsaṭ* 5/301, and al-Bayhaqī 3/327 — from Sulaymān al-Aḥwal, from Ṭāwūs, from Ibn ʿAbbās, that he prayed in the courtyard of Zamzam six rakʿahs with four prostrations. Thus he narrated it as mawqūf (stopping at Ibn ʿAbbās).

Ibn Jurayj narrated it — in what ʿAbd al-Razzāq (4934), Ibn Abī Shaybah (8393), and Ibn al-Mundhir 5/302 transmitted — from Sulaymān al-Aḥwal, with it. In it, he prayed four rakʿahs in every rakʿah. In Ibn Abī Shaybah's wording: four prostrations in every rakʿah.

In the narration of al-Dabarī from ʿAbd al-Razzāq — as found with al-Ṭabarānī in *al-Duʿāʾ* (2236) — from Ibn Jurayj, from Sulaymān al-Aḥwal, with it, that Ibn ʿAbbās prayed in every rakʿah four rakʿahs and two prostrations.

The following narration is to be consulted, via the path of Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān, from Sufyān al-Thawrī, with it.

It will come under number (1469) via the path of Kathīr ibn ʿAbbās, and in extended form under number (1493) via the path of ʿAṭāʾ ibn Yasār, both from Ibn ʿAbbās, with it. In both, the Prophet ﷺ prayed the eclipse prayer as four rakʿahs and four prostrations in two rakʿahs, and that is the well-known narration.