Mālik, and likewise Muslim, transmitted this report through Sulaymān ibn Bilāl and al-Layth ibn Saʿd—their chains all passing through Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī from ʿAdī ibn Thābit. Al-Nasāʾī also related it, through al-Fallas, from Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān, from Shuʿbah, from ʿAdī ibn Thābit.

Al-Bukhārī then said, under the heading “One who gives the adhān and the iqāmah for each of the two prayers”: ʿAmr ibn Khālid narrated to us; Zuhayr ibn Ḥarb narrated to us; Abū Isḥāq narrated to us, saying, “I heard ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd say:

‘ʿAbd Allāh performed Hajj, and we reached Muzdalifah at the time of the call to the night prayer—or very close to it. He told a man to give the adhān and the iqāmah, then he prayed Maghrib and followed it with two rakʿahs. He then asked for his supper and ate, after which he told another man to give the adhān and the iqāmah …’

ʿAmr added, ‘I know of the doubt only from Zuhayr.’ He continued, ‘Then he prayed ʿIshāʾ two rakʿahs. When dawn broke he said: “The Prophet ﷺ never prayed at this hour except this prayer, in this place, on this day.”’

ʿAbd Allāh said, ‘There are two prayers whose times are shifted: Maghrib, which is delayed until the people reach Muzdalifah, and Fajr, which is offered as soon as the first light of dawn appears. I saw the Prophet ﷺ do it.’

This wording—namely, “and Fajr when the dawn first breaks”—is clearer and more explicit than the other ḥadīth reported by al-Bukhārī through Ḥafṣ ibn ʿUmar ibn Ghayyāth, from his father, from al-Aʿmash, from ʿImārah, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd, who said, ‘I never saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ pray any prayer outside its appointed time except for two: he combined Maghrib and ʿIshāʾ, and the dawn prayer, which he offered before its usual time.’ Muslim also recorded it through Abū Muʿāwiyah and Jarīr from al-Aʿmash.

In Jābir’s narration it states: ‘Then the Messenger of Allah ﷺ lay down until daybreak, and when it became clear that morning had come he performed the dawn prayer with adhān and iqāmah.’ Present with him at that prayer was ʿUrwah ibn Muḍarris ibn Aws ibn Ḥārithah ibn Laʾm al-Ṭāʾī.

Imām Aḥmad reported: Hushaym narrated to us; Ibn Abī Khālid and Zakariyyā narrated to us, from al-Shaʿbī, who said that ʿUrwah ibn Muḍarris said, ‘I came to the Prophet ﷺ while he was at Jamʿ and said, “O Messenger of Allah, I have come to you from the mountains of Ṭayyiʾ. I have exhausted myself and worn out my mount; by Allah, I left no mountain without standing upon it. Do I still have a valid Hajj?” He replied, “Whoever has attended this prayer with us—meaning the dawn prayer—at Jamʿ and remains with us until we set out, having already stood at ʿArafāt before that, by night or by day, his Hajj is complete and he has fulfilled his rites.”’