Al-Ṭabarānī transmitted it in al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr (6/289–290).
But this Abān is abandoned. Al-Haythamī said (1/301):
“Shuʿbah, Aḥmad, and others declared him weak, while Salm al-ʿAlawī and others declared him reliable.”
Note: Ashʿath ibn Ashʿath—this is how it appears in all the aforementioned sources, except al-Lisān, where it appears as Ashʿath ibn Abī Ashʿath, with the addition of “Abī” between them. This is a typographical error and should be corrected.*
- Whoever performs the dawn prayer in congregation, then remains seated remembering Allah until the sun rises, and then prays two rakʿahs, will have a reward like that of a complete Hajj and ʿUmrah—complete, complete, complete.
Al-Tirmidhī (586) and al-Aṣbahānī in al-Targhīb (2/790/1930) transmitted it through Abū Ẓilāl, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said ... and he mentioned it. Al-Tirmidhī said:
“A good, singular hadith. I asked Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl—that is, Imam al-Bukhārī—about Abū Ẓilāl, and he said: ‘His hadith are close to acceptable, and his name is Hilāl.’”
I say: But the majority of scholars deemed him weak. For this reason, al-Dhahabī said in his book al-Mughnī:
“They declared him weak.”
He said the same in al-Kāshif, adding: “Except Ibn Ḥibbān.”