English translation
1662. Ibn Shihāb said: Sālim said, "In the year when Al-Hajjāj bin Yūsuf attacked Ibn Az-Zubair رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمَا, the former asked 'Abdullāh (Ibn ʿUmar) what to do during the stay on the Day of ʿArafa (9th of Dhul-Hijjah). I said to him, 'If you want to follow the Sunna (the legal way of the Prophet ﷺ) you should offer the Ṣalāt just after midday on the Day of ʿArafa.' 'Abdullāh bin ʿUmar said, 'He (Sālim) has spoken the truth.'" They (the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ) used to offer the Zuhr and the ʿAṣr prayer together according to the Sunna, I asked Sālim, "Did Allāh's Messenger ﷺ do that?" Sālim said, "And in doing that do you (people) follow anything else except his (ﷺ) Sunna?"
