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1233. Narrated Kuraib: I was sent to 'Āishah by Ibn 'Abbās, Al-Miswar bin Makhrama and 'Abdur-Raḥmān bin Azhar رضي الله عنهم. They told me to greet her on their behalf and to ask her about the offering of the two Rak'ā after the Aṣr and to say to her, "We were informed that you offer those two Rak'ā and we were told that the Prophet ﷺ had forbidden offering them." Ibn 'Abbās said, "I along with 'Umar bin Al-Khaṭṭāb رضي الله عنه used to beat the people whenever they offered them." Kuraib further said: I went to 'Āishah رضي الله عنها and conveyed her that message. 'Āishah said, "Go and ask Umm Salama about them." So I returned and informed them about her statement. They then told me to go to Umm Salama with the same question with which they had sent me to 'Āishah. Umm Salama رضي الله عنها replied, "I heard the Prophet ﷺ forbidding them. Later I saw him offering them immediately after he had offered the Aṣr. He then entered my house at a time when some of the Anṣārī women from the tribe of Banī Ḥarām were sitting with me, so I sent my slave-girl to him having said to her, 'Stand beside him and tell him that Umm Salama says to you: "O Allāh's Messenger! I have heard you forbidding the offering of these (two Rak'ā after the Aṣr prayer) but I have seen you offering them. If he waves his hand then wait for him.' The slave-girl did that. The Prophet ﷺ beckoned her with his hand and she waited for him. When he had finished the Ṣalāt (prayer) he said, 'O daughter of Abī Umaiyya! You have asked me about the two Rak'ā after the Aṣr prayer. The people of the tribe of 'Abdul-Qais came to me and made me busy and I could not offer the two Rak'āt after the Zuhr prayer. These (two Rak'ā that I have just offered) are for those (missed) ones.'"