102 - Chapter: What Has Been Reported Regarding What Is Recited in the Two Rak'ahs Before Dawn

1148 - 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Ibrahim al-Dimashqi and Ya'qub ibn Humayd ibn Kasib narrated to us, both saying: Marwan ibn Mu'awiyah narrated to us, from Yazid ibn Kaysan, from Abu Hazim, from Abu Hurayrah: That the Prophet (peace be upon him) recited in the two rak'ahs before dawn: {Say: O disbelievers} and {Say: He is Allah, the One}.

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It was also recorded by al-Tayalisi (126), 'Abd al-Razzaq (4772), Ibn Abi Shaybah 2/241-242 and 286, Ahmad (569), and al-Bazzar (856) and (857) through multiple chains from Abu Ishaq al-Sabi'i, from him (Abu Hurayrah).

Regarding this chapter, there is also a narration from 'A'ishah recorded by Ibn Abi Shaybah 2/241, from Waki', from 'Ali ibn Mubarak al-Hanna'i, from Yahya ibn Abi Kathir, from Abu Salamah, from 'A'ishah. Waki' is Kufan, and there is something (to consider) in the narrations of the Kufans from 'Ali ibn Mubarak.

The authentic narration from 'A'ishah is: That the Prophet (peace be upon him) used to pray the two rak'ahs of dawn when the mu'adhdhin came to him, then he would lie down on his right side until the mu'adhdhin came to him for the iqamah. Recorded by al-Bukhari (626) and Muslim (736) (122). This indicates that he used to pray the two rak'ahs immediately upon the mu'adhdhin finishing the adhan, and not at the time of the iqamah. And Allah knows best.

(1) Sahih due to corroborating evidence, and this chain is hasan. Yazid ibn Kaysan is truthful with good hadiths, and Ya'qub ibn Humayd ibn Kasib — although he is weak — was followed (in narration) by 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Ibrahim al-Dimashqi, known as Duhaym, and others.

It was also recorded by al-Bukhari in al-Tarikh al-Kabir 4/108, Muslim (726), Abu Dawud (1256), al-Nasa'i 2/155, Abu Nu'aym al-Asbahani in his Mustakhraj 'ala Sahih Muslim (1645), and al-Bayhaqi 3/42, through the chain of Marwan ibn Mu'awiyah, with this isnad.

Marwan ibn Mu'awiyah al-Fazari also narrated, from 'Uthman ibn Hakim al-Ansari, from Sa'id ibn Yasar, from Ibn 'Abbas: That the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) used to recite in the two rak'ahs of dawn — in the first of them: {Say: We believe in Allah and in what was revealed to us and what was revealed} — the verse in [al-Baqarah: 136] — and in the second of them: {We believe in Allah, and bear witness that we are Muslims} [Al 'Imran: 52]. Recorded by Muslim (727) and others.