The books of Hadith of other than the infallible imams (s)...
The books of Hadith of other than the infallible imams (s) have had many such traditions. Malik mentioned in his Muwatta: Once the caller of azan came to Umar bin al-Khattab to announce the time of Fajr prayer and he found Umar sleeping. He said to him: Prayer is better than sleeping. Umar admired that and ordered him to add it to the azan of Fajr.
Az-Zarqani said in his book Sharh al-Muwatta[2] when commenting on this word: Ad-Darqutni mentioned this tradition in his Sunan from Waqee from al-Umari from Nafi from ibn Umar that Umar had…
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