Dinar said...

Dinar said: `I said: `O Abu Sha`sha’ I think he delayed the zuhr and hastened [to pray] the `asr and he delayed the maghrib and hastened [to pray] the `isha’.’ He (Abu Sha`sha’) said: `I think so too.'” I (the author) say: “They only follow [their] conjectures, and the conjecture does not lead to the truth.” Muslim said: “Abu al-Rabi`i al-Zahrani said that Hammad b. Zayd reported from `Amr b. Dinar from Jabir b.

Zayd from Ibn `Abbas: `Indeed the Prophet of God (PBUH) prayed in Medina the seven and eight cycles, the zuhr and `asr and the maghrib and the `isha’ [together].'” He (Muslim) said: “And Abu al-Rabi`i al-Zahrani told me that Hammad narrated to us from al-Zubayr b. al-Kharit from `Abd Allah b. Shaqiq who said: `One day Ibn `Abbas delivered a sermon to us after the `asr [prayer] until the sun had set and the stars had begun to appear. The people started to say: `The prayer!

The prayer!.’ He said: `A man from the Banu Tamim, who was not smiling or inclined [in stature], came to him (Ibn `Abbas) and said: `The prayer! the prayer!.’ Ibn `Abbas said: `Do you teach me the sunna O one who has no mother?’ Then he said: `I saw the Prophet of God (PBUH) combine the zuhr and `asr and the maghrib and `isha’.’ `Abd Allah b.

Shaqiq said: `Something about that bothered me, so I came to Abu Hurayra and I asked him about it and he verified his statement.'” Muslim said: “And Ibn Abi ‘Umar told us that Waqi’ reported that `Imran b. Hudayr reported from `Abd Allah b. Shaqiq al-`Uqayli that a man said to Ibn `Abbas: `The prayer!’, then he kept quiet. Then he said: `The prayer!’ then he kept quiet. Then he said: `The prayer!’ and he kept quiet. Ibn Abbas said: `You have no mother!

Do you teach us about the prayer, we used to combine the two prayers in the time of the Prophet of God (PBUH)'”. I (the author) say: Al-Nasai narrated from `Amr b. Harm from Abu Sha`sha’ that Ibn `Abbas prayed the zuhr and `asr in Basra without any interval between them. He did that as he was busy, he reported it from the Prophet (PBUH). Muslim said that Ahmad b. Yunus and `Awn b. Salaam both told us from Zuhayr. Ibn Yunus said that Zuhayr narrated that Abu al-Zubayr reported from Sa`id b.

Jubayr from Ibn `Abbas who said: “The Prophet of God (PBUH) prayed the zuhr and `asr together in Medina when there was neither fear nor [was he] travelling.” Abu al-Zubayr said: “I asked Sa`id: `Why did he do that?’ He replied: `I asked Ibn `Abbas just as you have asked me.