and Mālik ibn Mighwal; ʿĀṣim; Wāqid; and Abū Bakr and ʿUmar—the two sons of Muḥammad ibn Zayd al-ʿUmarī; Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim; Juwayriyyah ibn Asmāʾ; Fulayḥ ibn Sulaymān; Mālik; al-Layth; Nāfiʿ ibn Abī Nuʿaym; and many others besides.
ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-ʿAlawī informed us; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Qaṭīʿī informed us; Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Kutubī informed us; Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Zaynabī informed us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Mukhalliṣ informed us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad narrated to us; Khalaf ibn Hishām al-Bazzār narrated to us in the year 226 AH; Qaṭṭāf ibn Khālid al-Makhzūmī narrated to us; from Nāfiʿ, who said:
He set out with Ibn ʿUmar from Mecca. When they were part-way along the road, a message reached him from his wife that she was on the brink of death. Whenever the call to Maghrib was made he would normally dismount on the spot and pray.
That evening, however, the call to Maghrib was announced and he kept on travelling until nightfall. We assumed he had forgotten, so we said, “The prayer!” He continued until the red twilight was about to disappear; then he dismounted and prayed Maghrib. When the twilight had vanished he performed the night prayer (ʿIshāʾ). He then turned to us and said, “This is exactly how we used to act with the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—whenever the journey pressed on.”
Al-Nasāʾī also recorded it, through Qutaybah from al-ʿAṭṭāf (1), obtaining thereby a higher substitute chain.
Al-Nasāʾī said:
The first tier of Nāfiʿ’s transmitters: Ayyūb, ʿUbayd Allāh, and Mālik.
The second tier: Ṣāliḥ ibn Kaysān, Ibn ʿAwn, Ibn Jurayj, and Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd.
The third tier: Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah, Ismāʿīl ibn Umayyah, and Ayyūb ibn Mūsā.
The fourth tier: Yūnus ibn Yazīd, Juwayriyyah ibn Asmāʾ, and al-Layth.
The fifth tier: Ibn ʿAjlān, Ibn Abī Dhʿib, and al-Ḍaḥḥāk ibn ʿUthmān.
The sixth tier: Sulaymān ibn Mūsā, Burd ibn Sinān, and Ibn Abī Rawwād.