101 - Chapter: What Has Been Reported Concerning the Two Rak'ahs Before Dawn

1143 - Hisham ibn 'Ammar narrated to us, Sufyan ibn 'Uyaynah narrated to us, from 'Amr ibn Dinar, from Ibn 'Umar: That the Prophet, peace be upon him, when the dawn became clear to him, prayed two rak'ahs.

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= And it was also narrated by Muslim ibn Ibrahim from Shu'bah, raised to the Prophet without doubt. We say: Its ruling is that it is raised to the Prophet, because something like this is not a matter for personal opinion. Moreover, it is authentically established as raised to the Prophet from the hadith of Umm Habibah, as mentioned previously.

Al-'Uqayli also cited it in "Al-Du'afa'" 1/52 via the chain of Ibrahim ibn Rustum, from Hammad ibn Salamah, from Muhammad ibn 'Amr, from Abu Salamah, from Abu Hurayrah, raised to the Prophet. Then he followed it with the narration of Hajjaj ibn Minh al, from Hammad ibn Salamah, from 'Asim ibn Bahdalah, from Abu Salih, from Umm Habibah — the same hadith — as if indicating a defect in the narration of Ibrahim ibn Rustum. Al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar said in "Al-Lisan" in the biography of Ibrahim ibn Rustum, citing both narrations: "And the preserved one is the narration of Hajjaj ibn Minh al."

(1) Sahih. This chain is weak because Hisham ibn 'Ammar contradicted the trustworthy narrators among the companions of Sufyan ibn 'Uyaynah, such as Muhammad ibn Mansur al-Makki, al-Husayn ibn 'Isa al-Bistami, Muhammad ibn 'Abbad al-Makki, and others. They narrated it from Sufyan, from 'Amr ibn Dinar, from al-Zuhri, from Salim, from his father, from Hafsah. Ahmad ibn Hanbal also narrated it in his Musnad (4592) without mentioning Hafsah, making it part of Ibn 'Umar's Musnad. Ibn 'Umar clarified in the narration of Nafi' from him, found in al-Bukhari (1173) and (1180) and others, that Hafsah was the one who informed him of the two rak'ahs before dawn, because that was an hour when no one would enter upon the Prophet, peace be upon him. For this reason, it appears in the narration of al-Humaydi (674): Ibn 'Umar said: "It was mentioned to me, and I did not see it: that the Prophet, peace be upon him, used to pray two rak'ahs when the dawn became clear to him." And in the narration of Maymun ibn Mihran, from Ibn 'Umar, in al-Tirmidhi's "Al-Shama'il" (279), he said: "Hafsah told me of the two rak'ahs of the morning prayer, and I had not seen them from the Prophet, peace be upon him." It is authentically established that Ibn 'Umar raised it to the Prophet, as in the following chain, making it a Companion's interrupted narration (mursal of a Companion), and that does not harm it.

Muslim also cited it (723) from Muhammad ibn 'Abbad, and al-Nasa'i 3/252 from Muhammad ibn Mansur, and 3/252 from al-Husayn ibn Musa — all three from Ibn 'Uyaynah, from 'Amr ibn Dinar, from al-Zuhri, from Salim, from his father, from Hafsah. =