“I pray as I saw my Companions pray. I do not forbid anyone from praying by night or by day as much as he wishes, provided that he does not deliberately seek the time of sunrise or sunset.”
This was also the view of Abu Ayyub al-Ansari. Abd al-Razzaq narrated from him (2/433), with an authentic chain of transmission, from Ibn Tawus, from his father: Abu Ayyub al-Ansari used to pray two rak‘ahs after the Asr prayer before Umar’s caliphate. When Umar became caliph, he stopped praying them; but when Umar died, he resumed them. He was asked, “What is this?” He replied, “Umar used to strike people for performing them.” Ibn Tawus said: “My father would not abandon them.”
Here, we should remind the adherents of the Sunnah, who are eager to revive the Sunnahs and eradicate innovations, that they should pray these two rak‘ahs whenever they perform the Asr prayer at its legislated time, in view of the Prophet’s saying: “Whoever introduces a good sunnah in Islam…” And success is granted by Allah.
2921 — “If a slave woman commits adultery, flog her. If she commits adultery again, flog her. If she commits adultery again, flog her. If she commits adultery again, flog her; then sell her, even for a rope.”
Ibn Majah (2/119) and Ahmad (6/65) narrated it through Ammar ibn Abi Farwah, who said that Muhammad ibn Muslim narrated to him, that Urwah narrated to him, that Amrah bint Abd al-Rahman narrated to him, that Aishah narrated to her that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said this. I say: This chain of transmission consists of trustworthy narrators relied upon by the authors of the two Sahihs, apart from Ammar—or Umarah—ibn Abi Farwah. Al-Busiri said in al-Zawa’id (159/1): “Al-Bukhari said: ‘No one corroborates him in his hadith.’ Al-Uqayli and Ibn al-Jarud listed him among the weak narrators, while Ibn Hibban listed him among the trustworthy; but he did not do well.”
I say: That is because no one other than Yazid ibn Abi Habib narrated from him, and he alone narrated it in this form. Malik, Sufyan, and others contradicted him, saying: from al-Zuhri, from Ubayd Allah ibn Abd Allah, from