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English translation
424. 'Alī narrated: "The Prophet
✽ would pray four Rak'ah before Az-Zuhr and two Rak'ah after it."
[He said:] There are narrations on this topic from 'Aishah and Umm Habibah. (Hasan)
Abū 'Eisā said: The Hadīth of 'Alī is a Hasan Hadīth.
Sufyān said: "We recognize the virtue of the narrations of 'Āṣim bin Dāmrāh that they are better than the narrations of Al-Ĥārīth."
This is acted upon according to most of the people of knowledge among the Companions of the Prophet ✽ and those after them. They prefer that a man pray four Rak'ah before Az-Zuhr. This is the view of Sufyān Ath-Thawrī, Ibn Al-Mubārak, Ishāq, [and the people of Al-Kūfah].
Some of the people of knowledge said that the Ṣalāt for the day and the night is two by two; they believed that one should separate between every two Rak'ah. This is the view of Ash-Shāfi'ī and Aḥmad.
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Footnotes
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[1] All of these are narrators in Hadīth no. 423, so the author intends to indicate that this is the more popular form that Hadīth is narrated in.
Commentary
The majority of the Companions and the successors are of the view that four Rak'ah are performed before the Noon Prayer (Zuhr), one statement of Imām Shāfi'ī is about two Rak'ah and Imām Aḥmad had the same opinion too. Yet four Rak'ah are preferred as proven through several Aḥādīth, though sometimes the Prophet ✽ performed two Rak'ah as well.
