“All of its narrators are trustworthy.”

Ibn Ḥajar also reproduces part of the report in Fath al-Bārī via al-Ṭaḥāwī’s chain and makes no critical comment. In short, the ḥadīth is acceptable for practical use. (Hence, one may sometimes recite this formulation and at other times the other.)

Note: As for the ḥadīth of Umm Salama in which she said, “The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) taught me to say at the Maghrib adhān, ‘O Allah, this is the arrival of Your night, the departure of Your day, and the voices of those who call upon You, so forgive me,’” its isnād is not sound.

It was recorded by Abū Dāwūd, al-Ḥākim, and Ibn al-Sunnī on the authority of ʿAbdullāh ibn al-Walīd al-ʿAdanī, who said: “Qāsim ibn Maʿn al-Masʿūdī narrated to us, from Abū Kathīr, the client of Umm Salama, from her.” Al-Ḥākim declared it “sound,” and al-Dhahabī concurred.

The Ḥāfiẓ (Ibn Ḥajar) approved that judgment in al-Talkhīṣ, yet it is untenable, for this Abū Kathīr is an unknown narrator, as al-Tirmidhī will note.

Al-Tirmidhī also transmitted the report through the route of Ḥafṣah bint Abī Kathīr, from her father Abū Kathīr, with similar wording, and said: “This ḥadīth is singular; we know it only through this path, and we do not recognise Ḥafṣah bint Abī Kathīr or her father.” Al-Nawawī likewise stated in al-Majmūʿ: “It was narrated by Abū Dāwūd and al-Tirmidhī, and its chain contains an unknown narrator.”