Ribāḥ, from ʿUqbah, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to me.

I say: This is a good chain of transmission. Its narrators are trustworthy and are all narrators of Muslim, apart from Ḥunayn ibn Abī Ḥakīm, who was truthful.

646 — “What excellent two surahs to recite in the two rakʿahs before dawn: ‘Say: He is Allah, the One,’ and ‘Say: O disbelievers.’”

Ibn Khuzaymah recorded it in his Ṣaḥīḥ (1/121/2): Bundār narrated to us; Isḥāq ibn Yūsuf al-Azraq informed us; al-Jarīrī narrated to us, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Shaqīq, from ʿĀʾishah, who said:

“The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) would pray four rakʿahs before noon and two rakʿahs before the afternoon prayer, never omitting them.” She said: “And he would say …” Then she mentioned it.

Ibn Ḥibbān also recorded it (610) through Yazīd ibn Hārūn, from Saʿīd al-Jarīrī, with the same chain, but without the opening words: “He would …”

I say: This is a good chain of transmission. Its narrators are trustworthy and are all narrators of Muslim, except that al-Jarīrī became somewhat confused during the three years before his death.

647 — “Before the Hour, there will be greetings reserved for particular people, widespread commerce—to the point that a woman assists her husband in trade—the severing of kinship ties, false testimony, the concealment of truthful testimony, and the widespread use of the pen.”

Aḥmad recorded it (1/407–408): Abū Aḥmad al-Zubayrī narrated to us; Bashīr ibn Salmān narrated to us, from Sayyār, from Ṭāriq ibn Shihāb, who said: