ʿAbd Allah ibn Yusuf narrated to us; Mālik narrated to us, on the authority of al-ʿAlāʾ ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from Abū as-Sāʾib, the mawlā (freedman) of Hishām ibn Zuhra, from Abū Hurayra—may Allah be pleased with him—who reported that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “Every prayer in which the Opening of the Book (al-Fātiḥa) is not recited is defective—unfinished.”