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154. Rāfi' bin Khadīj said: "I heard Allāh's Messenger ﷺ saying: 'Perform Fajr at Al-Isfār, for indeed its reward is greater.'" (Ṣaḥīḥ)
[He said:] There are narrations on this topic from Abū Barzah [Al-Aslami], Jābir, and Bilāl.
[He said:] Shu'bah and Ath-Thawrī reported this Hadīth from Muḥammad bin Ishāq (a narrator in this Hadīth).
[He said:] Muḥammad bin 'Ajlān also reported it from 'Aṣim bin
‘Umar bin Qatādah (another narrator in this chain of Hadīth).
Abū ‘Eisā said: The Hadīth of Rāfi’ bin Khadīj is a Hasan Ṣaḥīḥ Hadīth.
More than one of the people of knowledge among the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ and the Tābi‘ī held the view that Fajr was to be performed at the time of Al-Isfār.
And it is the saying of Sufyān Ath-Thawī.
Ash-Shāfi‘ī, Aḥmad, and Ishāq said: The meaning of Al-Isfār is that Fajr becomes illuminated such that there is no doubt in it. They did not hold the view that the meaning of Al-Isfār is to delay the prayer.
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Commentary
It was the routine of the noble Prophet ﷺ that he would begin the Fajr prayer in the darkness of dawn. There had never been a time that Allāh’s Messenger delayed offering of Fajr prayer apart from when he was teaching his Companions the prescribed times of prayer and when he was on a journey with Companions and they overslept such that they woke up only after the sunrise.
