607 - ʿUbaydullāh ibn Saʿīd informed us, saying: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān narrated to us, from Mālik, from al-Zuhrī, from Sālim, from Ibn ʿUmar, that the Prophet ﷺ prayed Maghrib and ʿIshāʾ at al-Muzdalifah.

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= (4894) Along with the narration of Sufyān al-Thawrī, from Salamah ibn Kuhayl, from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, through him; this narration will come under number (3030).

Abū Dāwūd also transmitted it (1930) via the path of Sharīk, from Abū Isḥāq, from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr and ʿAbdullāh ibn Mālik, who both said: We prayed with Ibn ʿUmar at al-Muzdalifah, Maghrib and ʿIshāʾ, with a single iqāmah.

Al-Tirmidhī said after (888): The ḥadīth of Ibn ʿUmar in the narration of Sufyān is more authentic than the narration of Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid, and the ḥadīth of Sufyān is a ṣaḥīḥ ḥasan ḥadīth. The practice according to the people of knowledge is upon this, because the Maghrib prayer is not prayed without combining [with ʿIshāʾ at Muzdalifah]. When one arrives at Jamʿ — which is al-Muzdalifah — he combines the two prayers with a single iqāmah, and does not pray voluntary prayers between them. This is what some of the people of knowledge chose and adopted, and it is the saying of Sufyān al-Thawrī. Sufyān said: And if he wishes, he may pray Maghrib, then have dinner and put off his garments, then give the iqāmah and pray ʿIshāʾ. Some of the people of knowledge said: He combines Maghrib and ʿIshāʾ at al-Muzdalifah with one adhān and two iqāmahs — he gives the adhān for the Maghrib prayer, gives the iqāmah, and prays Maghrib; then he gives the iqāmah and prays ʿIshāʾ. This is the saying of al-Shāfiʿī.

Al-Dāraquṭnī said in al-ʿIlal 7/199: Our shaykhs used to say that Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid erred in his statement "from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr," and that the ḥadīth is the ḥadīth of ʿAbdullāh ibn Mālik. What I hold — and Allāh knows best — is that both ḥadīths are authentic… It is plausible that Abū Isḥāq had memorized it from both of them, so he narrated it once from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, from Ibn ʿUmar, and Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid preserved it from him; and he narrated it another time from ʿAbdullāh ibn Mālik, and al-Thawrī and those who followed him preserved it from him.

However, he said in al-Tatabbuʿ, p. 303: This, in my view, is an error on the part of Ismāʿīl, and a group contradicted him — Shuʿbah, al-Thawrī, Isrāʾīl, and others — they narrated it from Abū Isḥāq, from ʿAbdullāh ibn Mālik, from Ibn ʿUmar. And even though Ismāʿīl is trustworthy, these are more accurate than him regarding the ḥadīth of Abū Isḥāq. And Allāh knows best.

Something similar has already preceded via the path of Shuʿbah, from Salamah ibn Kuhayl, from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, under number (481); see its paths there.

(1) Its chain is ṣaḥīḥ. ʿUbaydullāh ibn Saʿīd: he is Abū Qudāmah al-Sarakhsī. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān: he is Ibn Mahdī. And Sālim: he is Ibn ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿUmar, may Allāh be pleased with them both. =