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(2). 3227. Abū Dharr said: "I entered the Masjid when the sun had set, and the Prophet ﷺ was sitting. He said: 'O Abū Dharr! Do you know where this goes?' I said: 'Allāh and His Messenger know better.' He said: 'Indeed it goes to seek permission to prostrate, so it is permitted. And it is as if it has been said to it: "Rise from whence you came." So it shall rise from its setting place.' Then he recited: 'That is its fixed course.'"[2] He said: "That is the recitation of 'Abdullāh bin Mas'ūd." (Sahih)
[Abū 'Eisā said:] This Hadīth is Ḥasan Ṣahih.
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Footnotes
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[1] Yā Sīn 36:12.
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[2] This preceded under no. 2186.
Commentary
The prostration of the sun means it is performing its duty fully and actively. Everything in the universe is fulfilling its duty without the least diminution. It is said in Sūrat Al-Hajj: "See you not that whoever is in the heavens and whoever is on the earth, and the sun, and the moon, and the stars, and the mountains, and the trees, and moving creatures, and many of mankind prostrate themselves to Allāh." (22:18).
