In Jāmiʿ al-Tirmidhī and Sunan Ibn Mājah (1), Anas (2) reported that the Prophet said: “Whoever offers twelve rakʿahs of the midmorning prayer, Allah will build for him a palace of gold in Paradise.”
In Sahīh Muslim (3), Zayd ibn Arqam reported that he saw some people offering the midmorning prayer in the mosque of Qubāʾ. He said: “Indeed, they know that praying at another time is better. The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: ‘The prayer of those who continually turn to Allah is offered when the young camels feel the heat of the sun-scorched ground.’” The words “when the young camels feel the heat of the sun-scorched ground” mean that the heat of the day becomes intense, so that the young camels feel the heat of the ground.
In al-Sahīh (4), it is reported that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, offered two rakʿahs of the midmorning prayer in the house of ʿItbān ibn Mālik.
In al-Hākim’s al-Mustadrak (5), there is a report transmitted by Khālid ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Wāsitī, from
(1) Al-Tirmidhī (473) and Ibn Mājah (1380). Al-Tirmidhī and al-Hāfiz graded it weak, the latter in al-Talkhīs al-habīr (2/884), as did the author, as will be explained later.
(2) “From Anas” is omitted in K and Mb and supplied in the margin of ‘A.
(3) No. 748.
(4) Al-Bukhārī (424 and elsewhere) and Muslim (33). The author will quote its wording a few pages later.
(5) (1/314). Ibn Khuzaymah (1224) also transmitted it and identified a defect in it, stating: “No other narrator corroborated this shaykh, Ismā‘īl ibn ‘Abd Allāh, in transmitting this report with a connected chain. Al-Darāwardī transmitted it from Muhammad ibn ‘Amr, from Abū Salamah, as a mursal (disconnected) report; Hammād ibn Salamah transmitted it from Muhammad ibn ‘Amr as Abū Salamah’s own statement.” Al-Bukhārī likewise preferred the mursal version in al-Tārīkh al-kabīr (1/366). This assessment is not invalidated by the report transmitted by al-Tabarānī in al-Awsat (127), in which ‘Amr ibn Humrān corroborated this Ismā‘īl: al-Tabarānī’s shaykh in that chain is ‘Alī ibn Sa‘īd al-Rāzī, whose reliability al-Dāraqutnī questioned in Su’ālāt al-Sahmī (384), mentioning that he transmitted hadiths in which no other narrator corroborated him. See al-Mīzān (3/131).