431 AH.
I add: He was in his early nineties—perhaps a little less.
Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Ṣāliḥī informed us; al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Asadī informed us—in the year 620 AH; my grandfather informed us; al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid informed us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAwf informed us; al-Faḍl ibn Jaʿfar narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Qāsim ibn al-Rawwās narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Yaḥyā narrated to me; al-Walīd ibn Muḥammad told me, saying:
Al-Zuhrī said: Anas related to me that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to perform the ʿAṣr prayer while the sun was still high and bright; a person could set out for al-ʿAwālī and reach it while the sun was still high (1).
Al-ʿAwālī lie four miles outside Medina.
367 – Ibn al-Muzakkī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Naysābūrī, the traditionist, truthful, long-lived, Abū ʿAbd Allāh (2) Muḥammad, son of the traditionist Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Sakhtawayh al-Naysābūrī al-Muzakkī, one of
(1) Malik also records it (1/9, “The Times of Prayer”); through his chain the tradition is cited by al-Bukhari (no. 551) and Muslim (no. 621/193) from Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri, from Anas b. Malik. Al-Bukhari (no. 550) transmits it again through Abu al-Yaman → Shuayb → al-Zuhri, and Muslim (621), Abu Dawud (404) and al-Nasa’i (1/252) reproduce it through Qutaybah → al-Layth → al-Zuhri. — The *‘Awali* are the cluster of villages situated to the Najd side of Madinah; those on the Tihamah side are called *al-Safilah*. Some of the ‘Awali lie four miles from Madinah, the farthest eight miles, the nearest two, and others three. The sentence “the ‘Awali are four miles from Madinah” is an editorial insertion taken from al-Zuhri’s own words. ‘Abd al-Razzaq spells this out in his *Musannaf* (no. 2069), quoting Ma‘mar from al-Zuhri: after the phrase “when the sun has risen high,” al-Zuhri adds, “The ‘Awali are two or three miles away,” and, he thought, “perhaps four.”
(*) Al-‘Ibar 3/163; al-Wafi bi-l-Wafayat 1/350; Shadharat al-Dhahab 3/233.
(2) Al-Wafi reads: Abu Ishaq.