Under the heading “The congregant’s following of the imam …” he writes: “The ḥadīth has already been cited that the Prophet ﷺ prayed while the people followed him from behind the ḥujrah, performing their prayer in conformity with his.”

I say: He is referring to the ḥadīth of ʿĀʾishah that he mentioned earlier at the start of “The Night Prayer of Ramaḍān,” yet that report contains no reference to a ḥujrah. It is recorded in Ṣaḥīḥ Abī Dāwūd 1243, whereas the wording that does mention the ḥujrah is found only in a narration of al-Bukhārī.

What also deserves clarification is that the term ḥujrah here does not signify, as one might first imagine, his private house—may blessings and peace be upon him—but rather the reed mat with which he would fence off a small enclosure for himself in the mosque at night, as al-Ḥāfiẓ explained on the basis of certain variants of this ḥadīth. See my Mukhtaṣar Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, no. 398, and the notes thereon.

Under the heading “Whoever leads a people who dislike him” he cites the ḥadīth: “Three persons whose prayer Allah does not accept: a man who steps in front of a people while they resent him, a man who comes to the prayer after its time has passed, and a man who re-enslaves one he has set free.” Narrated by Abū Dāwūd and Ibn Mājah.

I remark: Its chain is weak; it contains an unknown narrator and another who is weak, as shown in al-Mishkāt 1123 and Ḍaʿīf Abī Dāwūd 92. The first clause, however, is sound, for it has several supporting reports that I have detailed in Ṣaḥīḥ Abī Dāwūd 607, among them the ḥadīth of Ibn ʿAbbās found immediately before it in that book.