17 - Chapter: Hastening the Evening Prayer

527 - 'Amr ibn 'Ali and Muhammad ibn Bashshar informed us, saying: Muhammad narrated to us, saying: Shu'bah narrated to us, from Sa'd ibn Ibrahim, from Muhammad ibn 'Amr ibn Hasan, who said:

Al-Hajjaj arrived, and we asked Jabir ibn 'Abdullah. He said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, used to pray the noon prayer at the time of intense heat, the afternoon prayer while the sun was white and clear, the sunset prayer when the sun had set, and the evening prayer at times—when he saw that they had gathered, he hastened it, and when he saw that they had delayed, he postponed it.

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Abu Dawud attached a portion of it following the hadith (394); he said: Wahb ibn Kaysan narrated, from Jabir, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, regarding the time of the sunset prayer, saying: Then he came to him for the sunset prayer when the sun had set—meaning the following day—at one and the same time.

Al-Tirmidhi said: Muhammad [meaning al-Bukhari] said: The most authentic thing on the prayer times is the hadith of Jabir from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him.

Al-Hakim said in "Al-Mustadrak" 1/196: It is well-known from the hadith of Ibn al-Mubarak, from Husayn ibn 'Ali ibn Husayn, from Wahb ibn Kaysan, from Jabir, and the two Shaykhs did not include it due to the scarcity of hadith from Husayn ibn 'Ali.

It has already preceded via the route of 'Ata' ibn Abi Rabah from Jabir under numbers (504) and (513), and via the route of Bashir ibn Sallam from Jabir under number (524), and in narration (504) two times for the sunset prayer on the two days are mentioned.

His saying: "equal," meaning equal to sunset, is a circumstantial clause referring to the object of "he prayed it." Al-Sindi said this.

(1) His saying: ibn Ibrahim, is not in (M).

(2) Its chain is authentic; Muhammad: he is Ibn Ja'far, and it is in "Al-Sunan al-Kubra" (1517) from 'Amr ibn 'Ali alone.

Al-Bukhari also narrated it (560), and Muslim (646): (233) from Muhammad ibn Bashshar, with this chain, and Muslim paired with him Ibn Abi Shaybah and Muhammad ibn al-Muthanna, and with them there is the addition: And the dawn prayer—the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, used to pray it while it was still dark.

Ahmad also narrated it (14969) from Muhammad ibn Ja'far, with it, and it contains the aforementioned addition.

Al-Bukhari also narrated it (565), Muslim (646): (234), Abu Dawud (397), and Ibn Hibban (1528) via multiple routes, from Shu'bah, with it.

And it has already preceded from the narration of 'Ata' ibn Abi Rabah from Jabir under numbers (504) and (513), and see what precedes it. =