any of them, except in the eighth; in that rakʿa he would sit and recite the tashahhud, then rise without giving the salam, pray one more rakʿa, sit again, recite the tashahhud, supplicate, and finally conclude with a single taslima, saying: “al-salam ʿalaykum,” raising his voice so that he awakened us… – end of the report. It was recorded by Imam Ahmad (6:236): Yazid related to us, saying: Bahz b. Hakim—on another occasion he said: “I”—said: I heard Zurara b. Awfa say… and he mentioned the hadith. The chain is sound. The same isnad appears in Abu Dawud (1:212), but without the words “one: ‘al-salam ʿalaykum’.” Ahmad also transmits it through another route from Bahz. Qatada likewise narrated it from Zurara with the wording: “a taslima that we could hear.” Al-Nasaʾi (1:250) reports it, and Ibn Hazm (3:49) cites it through Muʿadh b. Hisham, who said: “My father narrated it to me from him.” Muslim (2:170) includes it through this chain, though he does not quote the exact wording. Ibn Hibban recorded it in his Sahih (no. 669, Mawarid), and Abu al-Abbas al-Sarraj in his Musnad, as noted in al-Talkhis (3:522), which adds: “Its isnad fulfils Muslim’s criteria, yet al-Hakim did not include it, even though he collected the hadith of Zuhayr b. Muhammad from Hisham, as will be mentioned later.” The hadith is thus an explicit proof that ending the prayer with a single taslima is permissible, although Ibn al-Qayyim disputed this, stating (1:93–94):