the obligatory Dhuhr prayer, without restriction. (1)
Fourth: One Who Misses the Two Rak‘ahs After Dhuhr
Kurayb, the freedman of Ibn Abbas, narrated that Ibn Abbas, Abd al-Rahmān ibn Azhar and al-Miswar ibn Makhrama sent him to Aisha, the wife of the Prophet—peace and blessings be upon him. They said, “Convey greetings of peace to her from all of us. Ask her about the two rak‘ahs after [the prayer of] Asr, and tell her, ‘We have been informed that you perform them, although word has reached us that the Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—forbade them.’” (Ibn Abbas said, “Alongside Umar ibn al-Khattāb, I used to beat people for performing them.”)
Kurayb said: I went in to see her and conveyed the message they had sent with me. She said, “Ask Umm Salama.” I returned to them and informed them of what she had said, so they sent me to Umm Salama with the same message they had sent me with to Aisha.
Umm Salama said: “I heard the Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—forbidding them, but then I saw him perform them. The occasion on which he performed them was this: he had prayed Asr and then entered while some women from the Ansar belonging to Banū Harām were with me. He performed the two rak‘ahs, so I sent the maidservant to him. I told her, ‘Stand beside him and say, “Umm Salama says: O Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—I hear you forbidding these two rak‘ahs, yet I see you performing them.” If he gestures with his hand, step back from him.’”
She said: “The maidservant did so. He gestured with his hand, and she stepped back from him. When he had finished, he said, ‘O daughter of Abū Umayya! You asked about the two rak‘ahs after Asr. Some people from Abd al-Qays came to me bringing news that their people had embraced Islam, and they kept me from performing the two rak‘ahs after Dhuhr. These are those two rak‘ahs.’” Reported by al-Bukhārī and Muslim. (2)