before I go out for the Friday prayer.’ So he carried on doing that, and when ʿUthmān became caliph he asked him to increase it, whereupon he added another day (1).
Khālid ibn ʿAbd Allāh narrated from Bayān, from Wabara, who said:
ʿUmar once saw Tamīm al-Dārī performing voluntary prayer after the ʿAsr prayer, so he struck him on the head with his dirrah (a short whip-staff). Tamīm protested, ‘O ʿUmar! Do you strike me for a prayer I offered together with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ?!’ He replied, ‘O Tamīm, not everyone knows what you know.’ (2)
Ibn Mājah also recorded—through a weak chain—from Abū Saʿīd who said: ‘The first person to set up lamps in the mosques was Tamīm al-Dārī.’ (3)
It is said that the stone slab over Tamīm al-Dārī’s grave read: ‘He died in the year 40 AH.’
The reports he transmitted come to eighteen hadiths, only one of which is found in Sahih Muslim (4).
(1) Tadhhib Ibn Asakir, 3/360; see also al-Tabarani, no. 1249. Abu Zur‘a likewise records it in Tarikh Dimashq, no. 1915, through the chain: Haywa b. Shurayh – Baqiyya b. al-Walid – al-Zubaydi – al-Zuhri – al-Saib b. Yazid, who stated: “No public preaching took place in the time of the Messenger of Allah, ﷺ, nor during that of Abu Bakr. The first to preach was Tamim al-Dari, who sought permission from ‘Umar b. al-Khattab to address the people while standing; ‘Umar, may Allah have mercy on him, allowed it.”
(2) Al-Tabarani also transmits it (no. 1281) through another chain that includes ‘Abd Allah b. Salih, the scribe of al-Layth, a weak narrator.
(3) Reported by Ibn Majah (no. 760, book of Masajid) and by al-Tabarani (no. 1247) on the authority of Abu Hurayrah. Both chains contain Khalid b. Iyas, who is unanimously graded weak.
(4) No. 2942; its documentation has already been discussed on p. 442, note 2.