This is an authentic hadith(1).

On this topic, there are also reports from ‘Ali(2), ‘A’ishah, Ḥafṣah, Abu Hurayrah, and Abu Hashim ibn ‘Utbah.

Muhammad said: ‘Ali ibn ‘Abdullah said: The hadith of al-Ḥasan from Samurah is a good (ḥasan) hadith(3), and he did hear from him.

The hadith of Samurah concerning the middle prayer is a good (ḥasan) hadith(4).

This is the view of most scholars among the Companions of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and others.

Zayd ibn Thabit and ‘A’ishah said: The middle prayer is the noon prayer (ẓuhr).

Ibn ‘Abbas and Ibn ‘Umar said: The middle prayer is the dawn prayer (ṣubḥ).

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The hadith will be repeated with its chain and text by the author at number (3227).

(1) In the printed edition of Shaykh Ahmad Shakir at this point: "A good authentic hadith (ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ)," and the word "good (ḥasan)" — all of our manuscript copies agree on it, as do the two copies of Ibn Sayyid al-Nas and al-Mubarakfuri, on its omission at this point. However, the hadith will come at number (3227) where he says: "Good authentic (ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ)."

(2) Shaykh Ahmad Shakir added in his printed edition, in the hadiths of this chapter here: "And ‘Abdullah ibn Mas‘ud, and Zayd ibn Thabit," but this does not appear in any of our manuscript sources, nor in the copy relied upon by Ibn Sayyid al-Nas and al-Mubarakfuri in their commentaries.

(3) The word "good (ḥasan)" we have confirmed from (A), (B), and (Ẓ); in (L), in a copy in the margin of (B), and in "Sharḥ Ibn Sayyid al-Nas": "authentic (ṣaḥīḥ)"; in (D): "good authentic (ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ)."

(4) Thus he said here, as in all the manuscript sources and commentaries. He said in the Tafsir section, where he transmitted it at number (3225): "Good authentic (ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ)."