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182. Samurah bin Jundab narrated that the Prophet ﷺ said: "Ṣalātul-Wuṣṭa is the 'Aṣr prayer." (Ṣaḥīḥ)
[He said:] There are narrations on this topic from 'Ali, ['Abdullāh bin Mas'ūd, Zaid bin Thābit], 'Aishah, Ḥafṣah, Abū Hurairah, and Abū Ḥāshim bin 'Utbah.
Abū 'Eisā said: Muḥammad said: "Alī bin 'Abdullāh said: 'The Ḥadīth of Al-Hasan from Samurah [bin Jundab] is a Ḥasan Ḥadīth, and he did hear from him.'"
Abū 'Eisā said: The Ḥadīth of Samurah about Ṣalātul-Wuṣṭa is a Ḥasan Ḥadīth.
And this is the saying of most of the scholars among the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ and others.
Zaid bin Thābit and 'Aishah said that Ṣalātul-Wuṣṭa is the Zuhr prayer.
Ibn 'Abbās and Ibn 'Umar said that Ṣalātul-Wuṣṭa is the Ṣubḥ (Fajr) prayer.
Abū Mūsā bin Al-Muthanna narrated to us: Quraish bin Anas narrated to us from Ḥabīb bin Ash-Shahīd who said: "Muḥammad bin Sīrīn said to me, 'Ask Al-Hasan about the Ḥadīth regarding the 'Aqīqah.' So I asked him and he said: 'I heard it from Samurah bin Jundab.'"[1]
Abū 'Eisā said: Muḥammad bin Ismā'īl informed me of this Ḥadīth: from 'Ali bin 'Abdullāh [bin Al-Madīnī], from Quraish bin Anas.
Muḥammad said: "Alī said: It is true that Al-Ḥasan heard from Samurah. And he used this Ḥadīth as a proof.
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[1] Al-Hasan is narrating in the chain for no. 182, and he said: "from Samurah" So the author's intent here is to clarify that Al-Hasan actually heard narrations from Samurah.
Commentary
In the Qur'an, it has been specially stressed to guard and care for the Salātul-Wuṣṭā, but the jurists and the scholars of Ḥadīth have great dispute in specifying which prayer is the Salātul-Wuṣṭā. Rationally, any of the five prayers can be stated as the Salātul-Wuṣṭā prayer. But in the light of the Marfū' narrations, the authentic saying is that it is the ʾAṣr (after noon) prayer.
