2002 — “There are two dawns: a dawn called the wolf’s tail—the false dawn—which rises vertically but does not spread horizontally; and the other dawn, which spreads horizontally but does not rise vertically.”

Al-Ḥākim (1/191) narrated it—and from him al-Bayhaqī (1/377) and al-Daylamī (2/344)—through ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rūḥ al-Madāʾinī, who said: Yazīd ibn Hārūn narrated to us; Ibn Abī Dhiʾb narrated to us from al-Ḥārith ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Thawbān, from Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said it. Al-Ḥākim said: “Its chain of transmission is authentic,” and al-Dhahabī agreed with him. He cited it as corroborative evidence for the previously mentioned hadith of Ibn ʿAbbās, no. 693.

I say: Its chain of transmission is also sound. Its narrators are trustworthy and have biographies in al-Tahdhīb, except for ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rūḥ al-Madāʾinī. Al-Khaṭīb included his biography in his History (9/454) and reported that al-Dāraquṭnī said: “There is no problem with him.” Al-Ḥāfiẓ said in al-Lisān: “He was one of the trustworthy shaykhs of Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī.”

I say: However, Ibn Jarīr, in his Exegesis (vol. 3, no. 2995), al-Dāraquṭnī (p. 231), and al-Bayhaqī (1/377 and 4/215) narrated it through several routes from Ibn Abī Dhiʾb as a mursal report, without mentioning Jābir. Al-Dāraquṭnī said: “This is mursal.” And al-Bayhaqī said: