230 – Jubayr ibn Muʿṭim (may Allah be pleased with him) said, “I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ recite Sūrat al-Ṭūr during the Maghrib Prayer.” Agreed upon. (1)

Vocabulary
• al-Ṭūr (with ḍamma on the tāʾ): linguistically any extended mountain; here it refers to Mount Sinai, where Allah spoke to Moses.

Points of Benefit
1 – The usual practice for Maghrib is to recite from the short mufassal because the time is brief. Nonetheless, it may also be prayed with the long mufassal, for the Prophet ﷺ once recited Sūrat al-Ṭūr, which belongs to the long section.

2 – Sound reports likewise mention that he ﷺ recited in Maghrib Sūrat al-Aʿrāf, al-Ṣāffāt, al-Dukhān, al-Mursalāt, al-Tīn, and the two protective sūrahs (al-Muʿawwidhatān). These varied recitations show flexibility: he read al-Aʿrāf, which is in the first ḥizb; al-Ṣāffāt and al-Dukhān from the twelfth ḥizb; al-Ṭūr and al-Mursalāt from the long mufassal; al-Aʿlā from the middle section; and the rest from the short section. He ﷺ did this to demonstrate that all of them are permissible.

3 – The scholars state that the muṣḥaf must be written in the sūrah order found today, for that arrangement was agreed upon by the Companions, and their consensus is authoritative.