322 – Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “The heaviest prayers upon the hypocrites are the ‘Isha prayer and the Fajr prayer. If they only knew what these two contain of reward, they would come to them even if they had to crawl.” Agreed upon (1).

He also narrated: “A blind man came to the Prophet ﷺ and said, ‘O Messenger of Allah, I have no one to guide me to the mosque.’ The Prophet ﷺ granted him a concession, but when the man turned to leave, he called him back and said, ‘Do you hear the call to prayer?’ He replied, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘Then respond.’ ” Reported by Muslim (2).

Vocabulary of the hadith:
– mā fīhimā: that is, what the Fajr and ‘Isha prayers contain of reward and merit.
– ḥabwan: crawling on the hands and knees, like the crawl of a small child.
– ḥabwan: syntactically in the accusative, functioning as an adjective for an omitted verbal noun; i.e., “they would come to them even if their coming were crawling.”
– an-nidāʾ biṣ-ṣalāh: the call to prayer, namely the adhān.
– rajulun aʿmā: the blind man was ʿAbdullāh ibn Umm Maktūm, as stated in the narration of Abū Dāwūd and other collectors of the Sunan.