said, “On Friday there is an hour during which, if a Muslim servant asks Allah for something good, He grants it to him; it is after the afternoon prayer.”
Abū Dāwūd and al-Nasā’ī (1) narrated from Jābir that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “Friday has twelve (2) hours, including an hour during which, if a Muslim asks Allah for anything, He grants it to him. So seek it in the last hour after the afternoon prayer.”
Sa‘īd ibn Mansūr narrated in his Sunan (3) from Abū Salamah ibn ‘Abd al-Rahmān that a group of the Companions of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) gathered and discussed the hour on Friday. When they dispersed, they were all agreed that it was the last hour of Friday.
In Ibn Mājah’s Sunan (4), ‘Abdullāh ibn Salām said: I said, while the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)
(1) Abū Dāwūd (1048) and al-Nasā’ī in al-Mujtabā (1389) and al-Kubrā (1709). Also transmitted by Ibn Wahb in al-Jāmi‘ (229, Dār al-Wafā’ edition), al-Tabarānī in al-Du‘ā’ (184), and al-Bayhaqī (3:250). Al-Hāfiz graded its chain hasan (fair) in Fath al-Bārī (2:420), and al-Albānī graded the hadith authentic in Sahīh Abī Dāwūd—al-Umm (4:216).
(2) The witnesses Sād, Qāf, and Mīm read ithnā ‘ashrata (“twelve”); the other witnesses read ithnā ‘ashara (“twelve”). The adopted reading is from the Sunan of Abū Dāwūd and al-Nasā’ī.
(3) Ibn al-Mundhir transmitted it through Sa‘īd ibn Mansūr in al-Awsat (4:11–12). Diyā’ al-Dīn al-Maqdisī likewise attributed it to him in al-Sunan wa-l-Ahkām (2:351), as did Ibn al-Mulaqqin in al-Tawdīh (7:620) and al-Hāfiz in Fath al-Bārī (2:421), who graded its chain authentic.
(4) No. 1139. Also transmitted by Ahmad (23781), Ahmad ibn ‘Alī al-Marwazī in al-Jumu‘ah wa-Fadluhā (4), Ibn Khuzaymah (cited in Fath al-Bārī, 2:420), al-Tabarānī (13:168), and Diyā’ al-Dīn al-Maqdisī in al-Mukhtārah (9:444). Its chains converge on al-Dahhāk ibn ‘Uthmān, whose narrations are graded hasan (fair). Al-Hāfiz graded the hadith authentic in Natā’ij al-Afkār (2:434–435). See also Ibn Rajab’s Fath al-Bārī (5:401 ff.).