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571. It was narrated from Ibn Ṭawūs that his father said: “‘Aishah, may Allāh be pleased with her, said: ‘Umar, may Allāh be pleased with him, is not correct, rather the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ only prohibited, as he said: ‘Do not deliberately seek to pray when the sun is rising or when it is setting, for it rises between the horns of a Shaitān.’” (Saḥīḥ)
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Umar's ﷺ forbidding people to pray after the Asr prayer was based on the explicit prohibition of the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ. But ‘Aishah ﷺ had probably no knowledge of its prohibition, or she might have drawn a different conclusion on account of the Prophet's ﷺ praying after Asr.