(1) It is narrated from Ibn ‘Umar, may Allah be pleased with him: “I closely observed the Prophet ﷺ twenty-four—or perhaps twenty-five—times reciting, in the two rak‘ahs before Fajr and after Maghrib: Qul ya ayyuhā l-kāfirūn (Say, O disbelievers) and Qul huwa Allahu ahad (Say, He is Allah, One).” Ahmad (2/58, 95), al-Maqdisi in al-Mukhtara, and al-Tabarani in al-Kabir transmit it through the chain of Israʾil—Abu Ishaq—from Mujahid—from Ibn ‘Umar. Sufyan al-Thawri also reports it from Abu Ishaq, but without mentioning the recitation in the two Maghrib rak‘ahs; this version is found in al-Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah, as noted earlier under “The Sunnah of Fajr.” Another route has ‘Ammar ibn Ruzayq—Abu Ishaq—Ibrahim ibn Muhajir—Mujahid—from Ibn ‘Umar, preserving the full wording; here Ibrahim ibn Muhajir is inserted between Abu Ishaq and Mujahid. Al-Nasaʾi (1/154) and al-Tabarani in al-Kabir record this route. Ibrahim is “trustworthy but of weak retention,” as stated in al-Taqrib, and al-Nawawi alludes to the same when he remarks (3/385): “Al-Nasaʾi related it with a good chain, except that it contains a man whose reliability is disputed, although Muslim also narrates from him.” I add: I have located a corroborating chain through Nafiʿ