- “Whoever has not prayed the two rakʿahs of Fajr should pray them after the sun has risen.”
It was recorded by al-Tirmidhi (423), Ibn Khuzaymah (1117), Ibn Hibban (613), al-Hakim (1/274 and 307), and al-Bayhaqi (2/484), through ʿAmr ibn ʿAsim, who said: Hammam related to us from Qatadah, from al-Nadr ibn Anas, from Bashir ibn Nuhayk, from Abu Hurayrah, traced back to the Prophet.
Al-Hakim said: “Authentic according to the criteria of al-Bukhari and Muslim.” Al-Dhahabi agreed with him, and they were correct. Al-Tirmidhi indicated a possible defect in it based on ʿAmr ibn ʿAsim’s being alone in narrating it, saying: “We know this hadith only through this route, and we know of no one who narrated this hadith from Hammam with this chain and wording except ʿAmr ibn ʿAsim al-Kalabi.”
Al-Bayhaqi indicated the rebuttal of such an objection when he said after the hadith: “ʿAmr ibn ʿAsim alone narrated it—and Allah Most High knows best—but ʿAmr ibn ʿAsim is trustworthy.” I say: Both al-Bukhari and Muslim cited him as evidence; therefore, his hadith is not to be rejected merely because he alone narrated it.
- “Whoever attends to his brother’s need, Allah will attend to his need.”
It was recorded by Ibn Abi al-Dunya in Fulfilling Needs (p. 82, no. 47), from Muhammad ibn al-Hasan ibn Zibalah, who related from al-Munkadir ibn Muhammad ibn al-Munkadir, from his father, from Jabir ibn Abdullah, traced back to the Prophet.
I say: This is an extremely weak chain of transmission. Concerning this Ibn Zibalah, al-Hafiz said: “They accused him of lying.” His shaykh, al-Munkadir, was weak in hadith.