from al-Zuhrī, who reported: Sālim informed me, on the authority of ‘Abd Allāh ibn ‘Umar, who said:

“I saw that when the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, needed to make haste while travelling, he would delay the Maghrib prayer so as to combine it with ‘Ishā’.”

Sālim said: “‘Abd Allāh ibn ‘Umar would do likewise when he needed to make haste while travelling. He would give the call to commence the Maghrib prayer, pray three rak‘ahs, and conclude with the salām. After only a brief interval, he would give the call to commence the ‘Ishā’ prayer, pray two rak‘ahs, and conclude with the salām. He would not offer even a single voluntary rak‘ah between them, nor any voluntary prayer after ‘Ishā’ until he rose to pray in the middle of the night.”

Mālik narrated from Yahyā ibn Sa‘īd that he asked Sālim ibn ‘Abd Allāh ibn ‘Umar: “What was the latest you ever saw your father, ‘Abd Allāh ibn ‘Umar, delay Maghrib while travelling?”

He replied: “The sun set while he was at Dhāt al-Jaysh, and he prayed it at al-‘Aqīq.”

Al-Bayhaqī said: “Al-Thawrī narrated it from Yahyā ibn Sa‘īd, adding: ‘Eight miles.’ Ibn Jurayj also narrated it from Yahyā ibn Sa‘īd, adding: ‘I asked: What time was that? He replied: A third or a quarter of the night had passed.’”

He said: “Yazīd ibn Hārūn narrated it from Yahyā ibn Sa‘īd, from Nāfi‘, who said: ‘He travelled several miles, then dismounted and prayed.’”

Yahyā said: “Nāfi‘ related this account to me on another occasion, saying: ‘He travelled for nearly a quarter of the night, then dismounted and prayed.’”

He also narrated from the Musannaf of Sa‘īd ibn Abī ‘Arūbah, from Qatādah, from Jābir ibn