among them was ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAziz ibn Abī Salamah.

We have already set out the purport of the two views, the arguments that sustain each one, and the evidence adduced for them in our book al-Istidhkār and likewise in al-Tamhīd, in the commentary on the Prophet’s—peace and blessings be upon him—words: “Whatever you manage to catch, pray; and whatever you miss, complete,” and in another wording, “whatever you miss, make it up.” Thus, when a man joins the imam for a single rakʿah of a prayer