“Its chain of transmission is extremely weak, whereas the report of Abū Hurayrah cited by Aḥmad is weightier, for the narrators in that chain are those relied upon by al-Bukhārī and Muslim. Accordingly, the sound conclusion is that the sun was stopped for no one except Yūshaʿ.”
3 – Another claim is that the sun was halted for Solomon son of David (peace be upon him) during the incident in which he reviewed the horses and said, as Allah relates in the Qur’an: “Bring them back to me” (Q 38:33).
Al-Thaʿlabī, and after him al-Baghawī, narrated this from Ibn ʿAbbās. Al-Ḥāfiẓ said:
“This is not established from Ibn ʿAbbās, nor from anyone else. What is authentically transmitted from the vast majority of the scholars of Qur’anic exegesis—among the Companions and those who followed them—is that the feminine pronoun in His words ‘Bring them back to me’ refers to the horses. Allah knows best.”
4 – Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ related that the sun was returned for the Prophet ﷺ on the Day of the Trench, when the fighting delayed them from the ʿAṣr prayer until the sun had set; Allah then brought it back for him until he prayed ʿAṣr.
Al-Ḥāfiẓ said:
“Such is his assertion, and he attributes it to al-Ṭaḥāwī. Yet what I have actually found in al-Ṭaḥāwī’s ‘Sharḥ Mushkil al-Āthār’ is the ḥadīth of Asmāʾ that I have already cited.”
I (al-Albānī) add: The ḥadīth of Asmāʾ will be quoted shortly, in shāʾ Allāh. As for the Prophet’s ﷺ being prevented from the ʿAṣr prayer on that day, the incident is recorded in the two Ṣaḥīḥs and elsewhere, but none of those versions mention the sun’s being returned to him; see Naṣb al-Rāyah (2/164).
5 – In the same vein, Yūnus ibn Bukayr states in his supplementary material to ‘the Maghāzī of Ibn Isḥāq’ that when the Prophet ﷺ informed Quraysh on the morning after the Night Journey that he had seen their caravan and that it would arrive with the sunrise, he supplicated Allah and the sun was held back until the caravan entered.
I say: This report is muʿḍal (its chain has a double break). As for Al-Ḥāfiẓ, he said: