his prayer.” Ahmad (2/490), al-Daraqutni (147), and al-Bayhaqi also narrated it. This chain of transmission is likewise authentic.

Al-Kawthari deliberately ignored this authentic chain of transmission, as well as others that follow, in order to mislead readers. For, while declaring the first chain defective on account of its ambiguous use of “from,” he also impugned its text, saying: “As for al-Bayhaqi’s hadith, ‘let him add another rakʿah to it,’ it is before (the original reads: ‘after’; perhaps this was a slip of the pen) the sun rises, according to its explicit wording; whereas our discussion concerns prayer while the sun is rising!” This second narration therefore refutes him, both in its chain and its text: its chain explicitly states direct transmission, and its text explicitly states that this takes place while the sun is rising.

Indeed, al-Kawthari also ignored the addition in the first narration recorded by al-Bayhaqi and Ahmad—“and then it rose.” Perhaps he assumed that al-Bayhaqi’s narration was like al-Tahawi’s, in which this addition does not occur; otherwise, he would not have said what he said.

Qatadah had other shaykhs for this report as well. Hammam also said: Qatadah narrated to us, from al-Nadr ibn Anas, from Bashir ibn Nuhayk, from Abu Hurayrah, attributed to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, with the wording: “Whoever prays one rakʿah of the Dawn prayer and then the sun rises, let him add another rakʿah to it.” In another version: “Let him complete his prayer.” Ibn Hibban (1579—al-Ihsan), Ahmad (2/306, 347, 521), and al-Daraqutni narrated it. This chain of transmission is also authentic according to the criteria of both of them.

Hisham al-Dastuwa’i said: from Qatadah, from ʿUzrah ibn Tamim, from Abu Hurayrah, with wording like that of the first narration.