al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 310
✧ The Prayer Times
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وَقَالَ أَبُو يَعْلَى: حَدَّثَنَا غَسَّانٌ - وَهُوَ ابْنُ الرَّبِيعِ - عَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ مُطَيْرٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، قَالَ:
سَأَلْتُ أَنَسَ بْنَ مَالِكٍ ؓ، فَقُلْتُ: أَخْبِرْنِي عَنْ صَلَاةِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ الَّتِي كَانَ يَدُومُ عَلَيْهَا، فَإِنَّهُ قَدْ بَلَغَنِي أَنَّهُ أَخَّرَ وَقَدَّمَ، وَلَكِنَّ الصَّلَاةَ الَّتِي كَانَ يَدُومُ عَلَيْهَا كَأَنِّي أَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهَا ؟ قَالَ: ( كَانَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ يُصَلِّي الظُّهْرَ إِذَا زَالَتِ الشَّمْسُ، فَإِنْ كَانَ الصَّيْفُ أَبْرَدَ بِهَا، وَكَانَ يُصَلِّي الْعَصْرَ وَالشَّمْسُ بَيْضَاءُ نَقِيَّةٌ، وَكَانَ يُصَلِّي الْمَغْرِبَ إِذَا غَابَ قُرْصُ الشَّمْسِ، وَيَنْصَرِفُ وَمَا يُرَى ضَوْءُ [النَّجْمِ]، وَكَانَ يُؤَخِّرُ الْعِشَاءَ الْآخِرَةَ حَتَّى إِذَا خَافَ النَّوْمَ قَالَ: « يَا بِلَالُ أَذِّنْ »، وَسَمِعْتُهُ ﷺ يَقُولُ: « لَوْلَا أَنْ تَنَامَ أُمَّتِي عَنْهَا لَسَرَّنِي أَنْ أَجْعَلَهَا فِي ثُلُثِ اللَّيْلِ أَوْ نِصْفِ اللَّيْلِ »، وَكُنَّا نَنْصَرِفُ مِنَ الْفَجْرِ وَنَحْنُ نَرَى ضَوْءَ النُّجُومِ )
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Yaʿlá
- Ghassān / Ibn al-Rabīʿ
- Mūsá b. Muṭayr
- his father
✧ I asked Anas b. Malik ؓ, saying: Tell me about the prayer of the Messenger of God ﷺ that he used to persist in, for it has reached me that he delayed and advanced, but the prayer that he used to persist in is as if I were looking at it. He said: (The Messenger of God ﷺ used to pray the noon prayer when the sun had declined; if it was summer he would cool it down. He used to pray the afternoon prayer while the sun was white and clear. He used to pray the sunset prayer when the disk of the sun had disappeared, and he would leave while the light of the star could not be seen. He used to delay the last evening prayer until, if he feared sleeping, he said: “O Bilal, give the adhan.” And I heard him ﷺ say: “Were it not that my community would sleep through it, it would please me to place it in the third of the night or half the night.” We used to leave the dawn prayer while we could see the light of the stars.)
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Other narrations of this report
Sunan Ibn Majah 701Musnad Ahmad 21173Musnad Ahmad 21210al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 19401Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 3359Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 2063
Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AHأَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهورسألت
- d. between 131 and 140 AHأَبِيهِعن
- d. between 161 and 170 AHمُوسَى بْنِ مُطَيْرٍعن
- d. 226 AHغَسَّانٌ - وَهُوَ ابْنُ الرَّبِيعِحدثنا
- d. 307 AHأَبُو يَعْلَى
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