A glance at the traditions-4

14. And thus, elsewhere in his Ṣaḥīḥ, Bukhārī says:

:عنهم الله رضى عبّاس ابن و أيّوب أبو و عمر ابن قال

. العشاء و المغرب – وسلّم [وآله] اليه الله صلى – النّبىّ صلّى

“(‘Abd Allāh) ibn ‘Umar, Abū Ayyūb and Ibn al-‘Abbās (may Allah be pleased with them) said: The Prophet (ṣ) observed the maghrib and ‘ishā’ prayers (together without any interval).”[1]

Bukhārī seemingly wants to deduce from this tradition that the Holy Prophet (ṣ) combined the maghrib and ‘ishā’ prayers. Otherwise, it is obvious that the Prophet (ṣ) never neglected prayer.

15. In his Ṣaḥīḥ, Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj thus writes:

فسكت الصّلوة قال ثمّ فسكت الصّلوة عبّاس لابن رجل قال

كنّا و بالصّلوة أتعلّمنا لك امّ لا :قال ثمّ فسكت، الصّلوة قال ثمّ

. وسلّم [وآله] اليه الله صلى – الله رسول عهد على الصّلاتين بين نجمع

A person said to Ibn al-‘Abbās (as he delayed the prayer): Prayer. He kept silence. He again said: Prayer. He again kept silence, and he again cried: Prayer. He again kept silence and said: May you be deprived of your mother, do you teach us about prayer? We used to combine two prayers during the life of the Messenger of Allah (ṣ).[2]

16. Muslim narrates:

– وسلّم [وآله] اليه الله صلى – الله رسول إن

غزوة فى سافرها سفرة الصّلاة بين جمع

:سعيد قال . العشاء و المغرب و العصر و الظّهر بين فجمع تبوك

.امّته لايحرج أن أراد :قال ذٰلك؟ على حمله ما :عبّاس لابن فقلت

Ibn al-‘Abbās reported that the Messenger of Allah (ṣ) combined the prayers as he set on a journey in the expedition to Tabūk. He combined the noon prayer with the afternoon prayer and the sunset prayer with the ‘ishā’ prayer. Sa‘īd (one of the narrators) said to Ibn al-‘Abbās: What prompted him to do this? He said: He wanted that his ummah should not be put to (unnecessary) hardship.[3]

17. Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj thus narrates on the authority of Mu‘ādh ibn Jabal:

غزوة فى – وسلّم [وآله] اليه الله صلى – الله رسول مع خرجنا

.جميعًا العشاء و المغرب و جميعًا العصر و الظّهر يصلّى فكان تبوك

Mu‘ādh reported: We set out with the Messenger of Allah (ṣ) on the Tabūk expedition, and he observed the noon and afternoon prayers together and the sunset and ‘ishā’ prayers together.[4]