64 - Chapter: Recitation in the Maghrib Prayer of "Al-Mursalat" (The Sent Forth)

985 - 'Amr ibn Mansur informed us, saying: Musa ibn Dawud narrated to us, saying: 'Abd al-'Aziz ibn Abi Salamah al-Majishun narrated to us, from Humayd, from Anas, from Umm al-Fadl bint al-Harith, who said: "The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, led us in the Maghrib prayer in his house, and he recited 'Al-Mursalat.' He did not pray any prayer after it until he was taken (in death), peace and blessings be upon him."(1)

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= Regarding the Fajr prayer — and 'Abd al-Rahman, meaning Ibn Mahdi, said: the Maghrib — the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said to him: "Are you causing fitnah? Are you causing fitnah?"

Al-Bukhari (705) and Ahmad (14190) also recorded it via the route of Shu'bah, and the author in "Al-Sunan al-Kubra" (11600) via the route of Mis'ar, both from Muharib ibn Dithar, from him (Jabir). In al-Bukhari's version: "A man came with two watering camels when the night had set in, and he found Mu'adh praying..." without specifying the prayer, and at its end in his version and in Ahmad's: "For behind you pray the elderly, the weak, and those with needs."

Regarding his statement "while he was praying the Maghrib," al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar said in "Al-Fath" 2/193: If it is interpreted as a multiplicity of incidents, or that by "Maghrib" the 'Isha' prayer is meant metaphorically, then it is acceptable; otherwise, what is in the Sahih is more authentic. Regarding his statement in al-Bukhari's narration "when the night had set in," Ibn Hajar said in 2/200: i.e., its darkness had approached, and this supports that the prayer mentioned was the 'Isha'. End quote. See the detailed discussion of this in "Al-Fath" 2/193-194.

It has already preceded via the route of al-A'mash from Muharib ibn Dithar and Abu Salih under number (831).

And it will come via the route of al-A'mash from Muharib under number (997), and via the route of Abu al-Zubayr under number (998), both from Jabir.

(1) Its narrators are trustworthy, except that it is defective ('illah), for Musa ibn Dawud erred in it, and a hadith became mixed into another hadith for him. Abu Hatim and Abu Zur'ah al-Raziyyan mentioned — as in "Al-'Ilal" of Ibn Abi Hatim (226) — that 'Abd al-'Aziz ibn Abi Salamah al-Majishun narrated from Humayd, from Anas, that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, prayed in a single garment. Then al-Majishun said after that: And it was mentioned to me from Umm al-Fadl that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, recited "Al-Mursalat" in the Maghrib prayer, and this was the last prayer of the Prophet until he was taken (in death). So Musa ibn Dawud made the entire hadith from Humayd, from Anas, from Umm al-Fadl.

However, Musa ibn Dawud was not alone in this, for Abu Nu'aym recorded it in "Ma'rifat al-Sahabah" (7827) via the route of Musa ibn Dawud and Bishr ibn al-Walid, from 'Abd al-'Aziz al-Majishun, from him, without mentioning his recitation =