Al-Arbaʿūn al-Taymiyya - Ibn Taimiya - (139)

We were informed by the ascetic Imām, Shaykh Shams al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn al-Kamāl ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, and by Shams al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Zayn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik—both Maqdisīs—this report being read to them while I listened in the year 681 AH.

They said:
Al-Sharīf Abū al-Futūḥ Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAmrūk al-Bakrī informed us, his copy having been read before him; Abū al-Asʿad Hibat al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Abī Qāsim ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin al-Qushayrī informed us; my grandfather informed us; Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Khaffāf informed us; Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Sarrāj informed us; Qutaybah ibn Saʿīd narrated to us; al-Layth narrated to us, from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar, who traced it back to the Prophet—peace and blessings be upon him—who said:

“Whoever misses the ʿAsr prayer, it is as though he has been robbed of his family…"

أَخْبَرَنَا الشَّيْخُ الْإِمَامُ الزَّاهِدُ شَمْسُ الدِّينِ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْكَمَالِ عَبْدِ الرَّحِيمِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْوَاحِدِ بْنِ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، وَشَمْسُ الدِّينِ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ الزَّيْنِ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ الْمَقْدِسِيَّانِ، قِرَاءَةً عَلَيْهِمَا وَأَنَا أَسْمَعُ فِي سَنَةِ ٦٨١، قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا الشَّرِيفُ أَبُو الْفُتُوحِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَمْرُوك الْبَكْرِيُّ، قِرَاءَةً عَلَيْهِ، أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الْأَسْعَدِ هِبَةُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْوَاحِدِ بْنِ أَبِي قَاسِمٍ عَبْدِ الْكَرِيمِ بْنِ هَوَازِنَ الْقُشَيْرِيُّ، أَخْبَرَنَا جَدِّي، أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الْحُسَيْنِ الْخَفَّافُ، أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ السَّرَّاجُ، حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ، حَدَّثَنَا اللَّيْثُ، عَنْ نَافِعٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، قَالَ: «إِنَّ الَّذِي تَفُوتُهُ صَلَاةُ الْعَصرِ فَكَأَنَّمَا وُتِرَ أَهْلَهُ