He reads al-Ḥamd and a sūrah, whether in an obligatory prayer or other than it."(1)(2).--------------------------------------------
(1) Ṣaḥīḥ bi-ghayrihi (authentic due to corroborating evidence), and this chain is weak due to the weakness of Abū Sufyān Ṭarīf ibn Shihāb al-Saʿdī.
It was also narrated in extended and abridged forms by Ibn Abī Shaybah 1/229, Ibn Mājah (276) and (839), al-Dāraquṭnī 1/359 and 365–366, and al-Bayhaqī 2/85 and 380 via multiple routes from Abū Sufyān al-Saʿdī, with this chain.
It was also narrated by Ibn ʿAdī 2/783 and 784, al-Ḥākim 1/132, and al-Bayhaqī 2/379–380 via the route of Ḥassān ibn Ibrāhīm al-Kirmānī, from Abū Sufyān Saʿīd ibn Masrūq al-Thawrī, from Abū Naḍrah, from Abū Saʿīd. However, his statement therein: "from Abū Sufyān al-Thawrī" is an error on the part of Ḥassān ibn Ibrāhīm, according to what Ibn ʿAdī and Ibn Ḥibbān said in the book "al-Ṣalāh," as cited in "Ittiḥāf al-Mahrah" 5/412, for he heard it from Abū Sufyān and assumed he was the father of Sufyān al-Thawrī, not knowing that this Abū Sufyān was Ṭarīf al-Saʿdī. We say: this Ḥassān ibn Ibrāhīm is ṣadūq (truthful) in hadith, except that he has errors and singular narrations.
The first part of it—his statement: "The key to prayer is purification, its taḥrīm (opening sanctification) is the takbīr, and its taḥlīl (closing release) is the taslīm"—is corroborated by the hadith of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib to which the author referred later, and it has preceded with him as number (3), and its chain is ḥasan (good) when considered with corroborating evidence, and by the hadith of Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh, which has also preceded as number (4), and its chain is weak.
His statement: "And no prayer for one who does not recite… etc."—its meaning has come via another authentic route from Abū Naḍrah, from Abū Saʿīd, in Aḥmad (10998), and its wording is: "Our Prophet ﷺ commanded us to recite the Fātiḥah of the Book and whatever was easy."
It is corroborated by the hadith of ʿUbādah ibn al-Ṣāmit in Aḥmad (22749), and its wording is: "No prayer for one who does not recite the Umm of the Qurʾān and more," and it is in "Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim" (394) (37).
And the hadith of Abū Hurayrah, in Aḥmad (9529), and its wording is: "No prayer except with the recitation of the Fātiḥah of the Book, and whatever more," and its chain is weak.
(2) In the edition of Shaykh Aḥmad Shākir, an addition occurred: "This is a ḥasan hadith," and it is not found in =