It was also narrated by Ibn Naṣr and by Ibn Ḥibbān in his Ṣaḥīḥ.

Al-Bukhārī—and the other compilers of the Six Books—likewise transmitted it through additional chains from ʿAbd al-Wārith ibn Saʿīd, the grandfather of ʿAbd al-Wārith ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn ʿAbd al-Wārith ibn Saʿīd, from Ḥusayn al-Muʿallim, though in their versions the opening words “He prayed two rakʿahs before Maghrib” are omitted.

Benefit: This ḥadīth shows that a command from the Prophet ﷺ is obligatory unless evidence establishes that it is merely permissible, and likewise that his prohibition denotes unlawfulness unless its permissibility is known. Al-Baghawī stated this in Sharḥ al-Sunnah (1/706–707).

As for his ﷺ tacit approval of these two rakʿahs, that is borne out by the following ḥadīth: