—may Allah bless him and grant him peace: ‘O Allah, he was engaged in obedience to You and Your Messenger, so bring the sun back for him.’ Asmā’ said, ‘I saw it set, then I saw it rise after it had set.’”
Abū al-Faraj (1) said: “This hadith (2) is undoubtedly fabricated. Its narrators transmitted it inconsistently: Sa‘īd ibn Mas‘ūd narrated it from ‘Ubayd Allah ibn Mūsā, from Fudayl ibn Marzūq, from ‘Abd al-Rahmān ibn ‘Abd Allah ibn Dīnār (3), from ‘Alī ibn al-Husayn (4), from Fātimah bint ‘Alī (5), from Asmā’.”
He said: (6) “Yahyā judged Fudayl ibn Marzūq to be weak, and Abū Hātim ibn Hibbān said, ‘He narrates fabricated reports and makes errors when narrating from reliable narrators.’”
Abū al-Faraj said: “The transmission of this hadith hinges on ‘Ubayd Allah ibn Mūsā narrating from him” (7).
I say: The known chain is that Sa‘īd ibn Mas‘ūd narrated it from ‘Ubayd Allah ibn Mūsā, from Fudayl ibn Marzūq, from Ibrāhīm ibn al-Hasan, from Fātimah bint al-Husayn, from Asmā’. Muhammad ibn Marzūq narrated it from Husayn al-Ashqar, from ‘Alī ibn ‘Āsim, from ‘Abd al-Rahmān ibn ‘Abd Allah ibn Dīnār (8), from ‘Alī ibn