Jami` at-Tirmidhi 597

Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.

Muhammad ibn Bashshar told us: Abd al-Rahman ibn Mahdi told us: Shubah told us, from Yala ibn Ata, from Ali al-Azdi, from Ibn Umar, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, who said: “The voluntary prayers of night and day are offered two units at a time.” Abu Isa said: The companions of Shubah differed over the report of Ibn Umar: some attributed it to the Prophet and others stopped the chain at Ibn Umar. A similar report is narrated from Abdullah al-Umari, from Nafi, from Ibn Umar, from the Prophet. The sound report from Ibn Umar is that the Prophet said: “The voluntary prayers of night are offered two units at a time.” Reliable narrators reported it from Abdullah ibn Umar from the Prophet without mentioning daytime prayers. It is narrated from Ubaydullah, from Nafi, from Ibn Umar, that he used to pray two units at a time at night and four during the day. Scholars differed on this. Some held that voluntary prayers at night and during the day are offered two units at a time; this is the view of al-Shafii and Ahmad. Others said that night prayers are offered two units at a time, while voluntary daytime prayers are offered four units at a time, like the four units before noon and other voluntary prayers. This is the view of Sufyan al-Thawri, Ibn al-Mubarak, and Ishaq.