Musnad Ahmad 17018

Translation

✧ I came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and said: 'O Messenger of Allah, who has embraced Islam with you?' He said: 'A free man and a slave'—meaning Abu Bakr and Bilal. I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, teach me some of what you know and I do not know. Are there any hours [of the day] better than others?' He said: 'The last part of the night is best, for it is witnessed and accepted until you pray the dawn (fajr). Then refrain until the sun rises as long as it is like a shield until it spreads, for it rises between the two horns of a devil, and the disbelievers prostrate to it. Then pray, for it is witnessed and accepted, until the spear's shadow is equal to its length (i.e., noon). Then refrain, for it is an hour in which Hell is kindled. When the sun has passed its zenith, then pray, for it is witnessed and accepted until you pray the afternoon (asr). Then refrain until the sun sets, for it sets between the two horns of a devil, and the disbelievers prostrate to it.' And 'Amr b. 'Abasa used to say: 'I am a quarter of Islam.' And 'Abd al-Rahman used to pray two rak'as after the afternoon prayer.

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What scholars said about it

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• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  حديث صحيح وطرقه كثيرة حسان شامية إلا أن قوله في هذا الحديث ثم الصلاة محضورة مشهودة حتى تغيب الشمس قد خالفه فيه غيره في هذا الحديث فقال ثم الصلاة مشهودة متقبلة حتى يصلى العصر وهذا أشبه بالسنن المأثورة في ذلك

  machine translationA sound (ṣaḥīḥ) hadith, and its routes are many, good (ḥasan) ones from the Levant, except that his words in this hadith, "then the prayer is witnessed and attended until the sun sets," have been contradicted by others in this hadith, who said, "then the prayer is witnessed and accepted until the ʿAṣr prayer is prayed," and this is closer to the transmitted Sunnah reports on that matter. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 17223

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Abi Dawud 1277Sunan an-Nasa'i 584Sunan Ibn Majah 1251

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. al-Baylamānī al-Madanī

   weak (ḍaʿīf)d. between 91 and 100 AH
   عَبْد الرَّحْمَن بْن البَيْلَمَانِي المَدَنِيضعيف
   عن
2. 2
   Yazīd b. Ṭalq

   unknown (majhūl)
   يَزِيدَ بْنِ طَلْقٍمجهول
   عن
3. 3
   Yaʿlā b. ʿAṭāʾ

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 120 AH, or after it
   يَعْلَى بْنُ عَطَاءٍثقة
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Ḥammād b. Salamah

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid), the most reliable of people in narrating from Thābit; his memory changed towards the end of his lifed. 167 AH, or 165 AH.
   حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَثقه عابد ، أثبت الناس في ثابت ، وتغير حفظه بآخره
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Bahz

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. Ibn Qāniʿ said: 197 AH, ʿUqbah b. Mukram al-ʿAmmī said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal: before 198 AH, others said: after 200 AH
   بَهْزٌثقة ثبت
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
   أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

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