and this is likewise the position adopted by our later Shafi‘i authorities, as stated in al-Fath (1/228). (1) Reported by Ibn Majah and Ibn Khuzaymah. (2) Al-Tahawi also recorded it (1/176): Muhammad b. Ibrahim b. Yahya b. Junad al-Baghdadi narrated to us; he said: Yahya b. Ma‘in narrated to us; he said: ‘Abd Allah b. Yazid b. ‘Abd Allah b. Unays al-Ansari narrated to us; he said: I heard Talhah b. Khirash relate from Jabir that a man rose and performed the two rak‘ahs of Fajr. In the first rak‘ah he recited “Qul ya ayyuha’l-kafirun” (Say: O you who disbelieve) until he finished the surah, whereupon the Prophet ﷺ said, “This servant has believed in his Lord.” He then rose for the second rak‘ah and recited “Qul huwa Allahu ahad” (Say: He is Allah, the One) until he finished the surah, and the Prophet ﷺ said, “This servant has come to know his Lord.” Talhah added, “Therefore I prefer to recite these two surahs in these two rak‘ahs.” The isnad is sound; every narrator in it is well known. As for Muhammad b. Ibrahim—whose kunya is Abu Bakr—al-Khatib (1/397) gives his biography and transmits with his chain from ‘Abd al-Rahman b. Yusuf b. Khirash that he said, “He is upright, trustworthy, and reliable.” (*) The Shaykh—may Allah have mercy on him—also attributes the hadith to Ibn Bishran’s compilation al-Sifah in its printed edition.