It was also transmitted by Ayyūb ibn Suwayd and Abū al-Mundhir Ismāʿīl ibn ʿUmar, from Mālik, with similar wording.
Abū al-Maʿālī al-Hamadhānī informed us; Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Qāsim of Harrān (1) informed us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī informed us; ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Khaṭīb informed us; Abū ʿUmar al-Fārisī informed us; Muḥammad ibn Makhlad informed us; Jaʿfar ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿĀṣim narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Muṣaffā narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Ḥarb narrated to us, from Ibn Jurayj, from Mālik, from al-Zuhrī, from Anas:
“The Prophet ﷺ entered Mecca at the time of the Conquest with a helmet on his head.” (2)
Abū al-Maʿālī informed us; Muḥammad informed us; Muḥammad narrated to us; ʿAlī informed us; Abū ʿUmar informed us; Makhlad informed us; al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Sālim narrated to us; Shuʿayb ibn Ḥarb narrated to us; Mālik narrated to us; ʿĀmir ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr narrated to us, from ʿAmr ibn Sulaym, from Abū Qatādah ibn Ribʿī, who said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “When any one of you enters the mosque, let him perform two rakʿahs before he sits down.”
This narration is agreed upon by both al-Bukhārī and Muslim through Mālik’s chain. (3)
Az-Zum‘i related, through Abu Hazim, from Sahl ibn Saʿd, in a marfuʿ tradition with the wording: “Two occasions in which supplication is never rejected, or is seldom rejected: when the adhan (call to prayer) is proclaimed, and at the moment of fierce fighting when the warriors close in upon one another.”
Abu Dawud (no. 524) also transmitted, from ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAmr, that a man said: “O Messenger of Allah, the muʿadhdhins outstrip us.” The Messenger of Allah ﷺ replied: “Say what they say; then, when you have finished, ask and you will be given.” Its chain is sound (hasan), and Ibn Hibban declared it authentic (no. 295).
(1) A city in the Jazira region, in the lands of the Rabiʿa tribe; it is well known in history and has produced a number of scholars.
(2) Recorded in the Muwattaʾ, 1/423 (Book of Hajj, “Comprehensive Chapter”); al-Bukhari, 8/13 (Book of Military Expeditions, “The Conquest of Makkah in Ramadan”); and Muslim (1357) (Book of Hajj, “Permissibility of entering Makkah without ihram”). The mighfar is a piece of chain-mail woven to fit the head and worn beneath a turban or helmet.
(3) Recorded in the Muwattaʾ, 1/162 (Book of Shortening the Prayer on a Journey, “Waiting for the Prayer and Walking to It”); al-Bukhari, 1/447 (Book of Mosques, “When one enters the mosque he should pray two rakʿahs”); and Muslim (714) (Book of Prayers of Travelers, “Recommendation of greeting the mosque with two rakʿahs”).