2816 — “When travelling, he would not offer supererogatory prayers either before or after it”—meaning the obligatory prayer.

Al-Sarrāj recorded it in his Musnad (folio 120/2) through the route of Wakīʿ: Ibn Abī Dhiʾb informed us, from ʿUthmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Surāqah, from Ibn ʿUmar, who related it as a report traced back to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). I say: This chain of transmission is authentic according to al-Bukhārī’s criteria.

He then narrated it through the route of Ibn Abī Fudayk: Ibn Abī Dhiʾb narrated to us, from ʿUthmān … who said: “We were travelling with Ibn ʿUmar when he saw Ḥafṣ ibn ʿĀṣim offering supererogatory prayers. I said, ‘Your maternal uncle—meaning ʿUmar—disapproved of this.’ So I went to Ibn ʿUmar and asked him, and he said: ‘I saw the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) not offering supererogatory prayers …’”

I say: Its chain is good, and its narrators are narrators of the Ṣaḥīḥ. Al-Sarrāj, the two Shaykhs, and others also recorded it through another route from Ḥafṣ ibn ʿĀṣim, from Ibn ʿUmar, with similar but more complete wording. It is cited in Ṣaḥīḥ Abī Dāwūd (1108).

However, other authentic hadiths indicate that this was not unrestricted or universal, for it is established that he (peace and blessings be upon him) never abandoned the sunnah prayer of Fajr, whether resident or travelling; the same applies to the witr prayer. See Fatḥ al-Bārī (2/578–579).

2817 — “How will you fare when Allah gathers you as arrows are gathered in a quiver for fifty thousand years, then Allah does not look at you?!”

Al-Ḥākim recorded it in al-Mustadrak (4/572), from Ibn Wahb: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Maysarah informed me, from Abū Hāniʾ al-Khawlānī, from Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ḥubulī, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ (may Allah be pleased with him and his father), who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) recited the verse, “The Day when mankind will stand before the Lord of the worlds,” then mentioned the hadith and said: