the night prayer. For in this form of combining, apparent combining is inconceivable. One of its clearest examples is the combining due to rain that is established in the sunnah, for it can only be combining by bringing the prayers forward. There are many authentic hadiths concerning all of this. I have cited some of them in more than one place in my writings: some under the aforementioned hadith of Ibn Mas'ud (2837), and among them is the hadith of Anas in al-Irwa' (3/32/579). *

3041—“Do not pray until the sun has risen high, for it rises between the two horns of Satan.”

Ahmad (5/216) recorded it, as did his son; al-Bukhari in Kuna al-Tarikh (15/107); al-Bazzar in his Musnad (1/336–337); Abu Ya'la likewise (3/143/1572); and al-Tabarani in al-Awsat (2/106/1/6668), through several routes from Harun ibn Ma'ruf, who said: 'Abd Allah [ibn Wahb] narrated to us: Makhmarah [ibn Bukayr] informed me, from his father, from Sa'id ibn Nafi', who said:

Abu Bashir al-Ansari, a Companion of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, saw me performing the Duha prayer when the sun had risen. He censured me for it and forbade me from doing so, then said: “Indeed, the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said...” and he cited it.

Al-Bazzar said:

“We know it only through this route, and we know of no one other than Bukayr who narrated from Sa'id.”

I say: He is indicating that he was unknown, with no established standing. This is supported by the fact that when al-Bukhari and Ibn Abi Hatim gave his biographical notice, they mentioned no narrator from him other than Bukayr. Yet Ibn Hibban included him in al-Thiqat (4/291)!