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ahmad:16532Ṣafwān > Ibn Abū ʿUbayd > Salamah b. al-Akwaʿ

The Prophet ﷺ used to say the Maghrib prayer immediately after the sun had set when its upper side would disappear. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 417)   

أحمد:١٦٥٣٢حَدَّثَنَا صَفْوَانُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي عُبَيْدٍ عَنْ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ الْأَكْوَعِ قَالَ

كَانَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ يُصَلِّي الْمَغْرِبَ سَاعَةَ تَغْرُبُ الشَّمْسُ إِذَا غَابَ حَاجِبُهَا  


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Collected by Abū Dāwūd, Dārimī, Ibn Ḥibbān
abudawud:417ʿAmr b. ʿAlī > Ṣafwān b. ʿĪsá > Yazīd b. Abū ʿUbayd > Salamah b. al-Akwaʿ

The Prophet ﷺ used to say the Maghrib prayer immediately after the sun had set when its upper side would disappear.  

أبو داود:٤١٧حَدَّثَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ أَبِي عُبَيْدٍ عَنْ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ الأَكْوَعِ قَالَ

كَانَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ يُصَلِّي الْمَغْرِبَ سَاعَةَ تَغْرُبُ الشَّمْسُ إِذَا غَابَ حَاجِبُهَا  

darimi:1245Isḥāq > Ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ḥanẓalī > Ṣafwān b. ʿĪsá > Yazīd b. Abū ʿUbayd > Salamah b. al-Akwaʿ

The Prophet ﷺ used to say the Maghrib prayer immediately after the sun had set when its upper side would disappear. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 417)  

الدارمي:١٢٤٥أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْحَاقُ هُوَ ابْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الْحَنْظَلِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا صَفْوَانُ بْنُ عِيسَى عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ أَبِي عُبَيْدٍ عَنْ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ الْأَكْوَعِ قَالَ

كَانَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ «يُصَلِّي الْمَغْرِبَ سَاعَةَ تَغْرُبُ الشَّمْسُ إِذَا غَابَ حَاجِبُهَا»  

ذِكْرُ الْوَقْتِ الَّذِي يُسْتَحَبُّ فِيهِ أَدَاءُ الْمَرْءِ صَلَاةَ الْمَغْرِبِ

ibnhibban:1523Muḥammad b. Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm a freed slave of Thaqīf > Qutaybah b. Saʿīd > Ḥātim b. Ismāʿīl > Yazīd b. Abū ʿUbayd > Salamah b. al-Akwaʿ

Salama b. al-Akwa' reported that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to pray the evening prayer when the sun had set and disappeared (behind the horizon). (Using translation from Muslim 636)  

ابن حبّان:١٥٢٣أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ مَوْلَى ثَقِيفٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا حَاتِمُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ أَبِي عُبَيْدٍ عَنْ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ الْأَكْوَعِ قَالَ

«كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ يُصَلِّي الْمَغْرِبَ إِذَا غَرَبَتِ الشَّمْسُ وَتَوَارَتْ بِالْحِجَابِ»