and his words in that context, “Your love for it has admitted you into Paradise.”

I say: This is the conclusion of al-Bukhārī’s comment which he records in suspended form in his Ṣaḥīḥ; the compiler should have clarified that. I have already collected these suspended reports in Mukhtaṣar Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī (1/192), where he also says:

“He performed it—that is, the Dawn Prayer—reciting al-Rūm.”

I remark: He quoted this from Zād al-Maʿād, as he states at the beginning of the section, and I wrote in my annotation there exactly the following:

“I say: This is not established. It was recorded by al-Nasaʾī (1/151) and Aḥmad (5/363, 364) through the route of ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr, from Shabīb Abū Rūḥ, from a man among the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ, that the Prophet led the dawn prayer and recited al-Rūm, but it became confused for him. When he finished he said, ‘What is wrong with people who pray with us yet do not perfect their purification? It is they who cause the Qurʾān to be confused for us.’

This Shabīb is the son of Nuʿaym—some say: the son of Abū Rūḥ—whose kunya is Abū Rūḥ al-Ḥimṣī. Ibn Ḥibbān listed him among the trustworthy, while Ibn al-Qaṭṭān said: ‘His reliability is unknown.’

There is another defect as well; see al-Mishkāt, 295. From this it becomes clear that whoever declared its chain sound, past or present, did not do well—especially since its content runs contrary to the plain sense of the Almighty’s words: “Whoever does evil, it is only against himself.” Allah knows best.

His statement concerning what is to be recited after Maghrib: “Abū Dāwūd mentioned, in the ḥadīth of ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb from his father from his grandfather, that he said: ‘There is no short or long sūrah of the mufaṣṣal except that I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ lead the people with it in an obligatory prayer.’”

I say: It is narrated through Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq from ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb, and Ibn Isḥāq