Jami` at-Tirmidhi 167

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Hannād narrated to us: ʿAbdah narrated to us, from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, from Saʿīd al-Maqburī, from Abū Hurayrah, who said: The Prophet (ﷺ) said: “Were it not a hardship for my community, I would have ordered them to delay the later ʿIshāʾ until a third of the night or halfway through it.” There are also reports on this topic from Jābir ibn Samurah, Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh, Abū Barzah, Ibn ʿAbbās, Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, Zayd ibn Khālid, and Ibn ʿUmar. Abū ʿĪsā said: The hadith of Abū Hurayrah is hasan sahih. This was what most scholars among the Prophet’s Companions, the Successors, and others preferred: delaying the later ʿIshāʾ prayer. Aḥmad and Isḥāq held this view.