their prayers.¹

This hadith has also been narrated from al-Nuʿmān ibn Muqarrin with a chain of transmission more connected than this one. Qatādah did not meet al-Nuʿmān ibn Muqarrin; al-Nuʿmān died during the caliphate of ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb.

1705 — Al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Khallāl narrated to us, saying: ʿAffān ibn Muslim and al-Ḥajjāj ibn Minhāl narrated to us, both saying: Ḥammād ibn Salamah narrated to us, saying: Abū ʿImrān al-Jawnī narrated to us, from ʿAlqamah ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Muzanī, from Maʿqil ibn Yasār: that ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb sent al-Nuʿmān ibn Muqarrin to al-Hurmuzān, and he mentioned the hadith in full. Al-Nuʿmān ibn Muqarrin said: I was present with the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and when he did not fight at the beginning of the day, he would wait until the sun passed its zenith, the winds blew, and victory descended.²

This is a good and authentic hadith. ʿAlqamah ibn ʿAbd Allāh is the brother of Bakr ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Muzanī.

46 — Chapter: What has been reported regarding omens (ṭiyarah)

1706 — Muḥammad ibn Bashshār narrated to us, saying: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī narrated to us, ————————————————————————————————
¹ Its chain of transmission is weak in this form, for Qatādah did not meet al-Nuʿmān ibn Muqarrin, as the author and others have stated. See what follows.
² Its chain of transmission is authentic. It was recorded in full and abridged by Aḥmad (23744), Abū Dāwūd (2655), al-Nasāʾī in al-Kubrā (8637), Ibn Ḥibbān (4757), and it was recorded via another route by al-Bukhārī (3159) and (3160), and Ibn Ḥibbān (4756).