“You are al-Ḥannān, al-Mannān”—combining the two names. Yet al-Haythamī’s Zawāʾid Ibn Ḥibbān (2382) contains only: “You are al-Mannān.”

This is the preserved wording, while the addition “al-Ḥannān” is anomalous in two respects. First, it does not occur at all in the hadith under discussion or in any other hadith, as noted above. Second, it contradicts all the chains transmitted from Khalaf, none of which contains this combination. What further confirms this is that the narrator from Khalaf in Ṣaḥīḥ Ibn Ḥibbān is Qutaybah ibn Saʿīd, and al-Nasāʾī narrated it from him without this addition. This favours the wording found in Zawāʾid Ibn Ḥibbān over that in al-Iḥsān.

Accordingly, the error of the three annotators, who passed over this addition in their notes on al-Targhīb, is plainly evident. This is not surprising on their part, for, owing to their ignorance, they are capable of nothing else. What is surprising, however, is that the two annotators of Zawāʾid Ibn Ḥibbān (2/1075, the Foundation edition) included it, placing it in brackets: [al-Ḥannān], even though it is unsound because of its anomalous nature, its contradiction of the chains from Khalaf—including the route of Qutaybah—and its divergence from all the other routes from Anas, especially the route of the hadith under discussion. *

3412—“There is no prayer after the afternoon prayer until the sun sets, nor after the dawn prayer until the sun rises—except in Mecca, except in Mecca, [except in Mecca].”

It was narrated by Aḥmad (5/165): Yazīd narrated to us; by al-Dāraquṭnī in his Sunan (1/424/6); and by al-Bayhaqī (2/461), through the route of Muḥammad ibn Idrīs al-Shāfiʿī; and al-Bayhaqī also