This therefore implies that the sun returned to nearly its position at the time of the ‘Asr prayer, and that this occurred in Medina. Yet the other chain states that it occurred at Khaybar, and that the sun appeared only (1) above the mountaintops.

Concerning ‘Abd al-Rahmān ibn Sharīk, Abū Hātim al-Rāzī said: “He is very weak in hadith.” Others likewise declared him weak.

He also related it through a fourth chain, from Muhammad ibn ‘Umar the judge—namely al-Ja‘‘ānī—from al-‘Abbās ibn al-Walīd (2), (* from ‘Abbād (3), namely al-Rawājinī *) (4), who said: ‘Alī ibn Hāshim narrated to us, from Sabāh ibn (5) ‘Abd Allāh ibn al-Husayn, Abū Ja‘far, from (6) Husayn the slain, from Fātimah, from Asmā’ bint ‘Umays, who said:

“On the day of Khaybar, ‘Alī was occupied with dividing the spoils (7) until the sun had set or nearly set. The Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—said, ‘Have you not prayed?’ He replied, ‘No.’ He then supplicated to Allah, and the sun rose until it reached the middle of the sky. ‘Alī prayed, and when the sun set, I heard it make a screeching sound like that of a saw cutting iron.”

This fourth wording contradicts the three mutually contradictory wordings, and it has become clear that