1005 - Isma‘il ibn Mas‘ud informed us, saying: Khalid narrated to us, saying: Shu‘bah narrated to us, from ‘Amr ibn Murrah, who said: I heard Abu Wa’il say:

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= Also recorded by Muslim (822): (277), from Ishaq ibn Ibrahim, with this chain of transmission, but he did not cite its wording verbatim and referred back to the preceding hadith, and it contains an addition. Among this addition is that a man said to Ibn Mas‘ud: "I recite the Mufassal [suras] in a single rak‘ah…" and this will come in the following hadith.

Also recorded by Ahmad (3607) and (4350), al-Bukhari (4996), and Muslim (822): (275) and (276), and al-Tirmidhi (602), via multiple chains, from al-A‘mash, with it, and in some of them there is an addition that will come in the following hadith.

Also recorded by Ahmad (3999) and (4410), al-Bukhari (5043), Muslim (822): (278), and Ibn Hibban (2607), via the route of Wasil al-Ahdab; and Ahmad (4062) via the route of Sayyar al-‘Anazi; and Muslim (822): (279) via the route of Mansur ibn al-Mu‘tamir — all three of them from Shaqiq ibn Salamah, with it. In the narration of Wasil al-Ahdab: "eighteen suras from the Mufassal and two suras from Al-Hamim," and in it also: "I indeed memorize the qara’in…" and with al-Bukhari: "al-qurana’."

Also recorded by Ahmad (3910), (3958), and (3968), and Abu Dawud (1396), via multiple chains, from Ibn Mas‘ud, with its like, in both expanded and abridged forms. The explicit mention of the pairs (naza’ir) appears in the narration of Abu Dawud: "Al-Rahman and Al-Najm in one rak‘ah, and Iqtarabat and Al-Haqqah in one rak‘ah, and Al-Tur and Al-Dhariyat in one rak‘ah, and Idha Waqa‘at and Nun in one rak‘ah, and Sa’ala Sa’il and Al-Nazi‘at in one rak‘ah, and Wayl lil-Mutaffifin and ‘Abasa in one rak‘ah, and Al-Muddaththir and Al-Muzzammil in one rak‘ah, and Hal Ata and La Uqsim bi-Yawm al-Qiyamah in one rak‘ah, and ‘Amma Yatasa’alun and Al-Mursalat in one rak‘ah, and Al-Dukhan and Idha al-Shams Kuwwirat in one rak‘ah." Abu Dawud said: "This is the arrangement of Ibn Mas‘ud, may Allah have mercy on him." End quote — meaning his ordering.

Ibn Rajab said in Fath al-Bari 7/75: "In this narration, there is nothing from Al-Hamim except the Surah of Al-Dukhan, and this contradicts the aforementioned narration of Muslim, 'and two suras from Al-Hamim.'" End quote. And it is also the narration of al-Bukhari. It appears in the narration of Ahmad (3958): "Al-Dukhan and ‘Amma Yatasa’alun in one rak‘ah." And see Fath al-Bari by Ibn Hajar 2/259-260.

His statement: "I indeed know the naza’ir," meaning: the suras that are similar in meanings, such as admonition, or wisdom, or narratives — not those similar in the number of verses. This was stated by al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar in Fath al-Bari 2/259.

And Ibn Rajab said in Fath al-Bari 7/74: "It was said that they (i.e., the naza’ir) were so named because they are similar in length."