And there is the report of Abū Dharr: he entered the mosque and the Prophet ﷺ asked him, “Have you prayed two rakʿahs?” He replied, “No.” The Prophet said, “Stand and perform them.” Ibn Ḥibbān recorded it in his Ṣaḥīḥ, as cited in Fatḥ al-Bārī.

I add: al-Ṭayālisī and Aḥmad also transmitted the ḥadith through the route of al-Masʿūdī, from Abū ʿAmr al-Shāmī, from ʿUbayd ibn al-Khashkhash, from Abū Dharr. This isnād is weak: al-Masʿūdī’s memory became muddled, his teacher Abū ʿAmr—also called Abū ʿAmr—is weak, and ʿUbayd ibn al-Khashkhash (with dotted letters; some write it without) is “soft” (i.e., weak) according to al-Taqrīb.

The ḥadith was likewise reported by al-Bazzār and by al-Ṭabarānī in al-Awsaṭ, as mentioned in Majmaʿ al-Zawāʾid, where it is said: “Its chain contains al-Masʿūdī, who is reliable but experienced confusion.” I say: to single out only this point when weakening the ḥadith is insufficient. Had he added the weakness of al-Masʿūdī’s teacher and the narrator above him—or confined his criticism to those two—it would have been more appropriate, for you already know their status, and al-Masʿūdī is stronger than both of them.