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ahmad:20091Bahz And ʿAffān > Abān > Qatādah > al-Ḥasan > Samurah > Nabī Allāh ﷺ > Ḥāfiẓūā > al-Ṣalawāt al-Bqrh 238 > ʿAffān al-Ṣalāh Wa-al-Ṣṣalāh al-Wusṭá al-Bqrh 238 Wasammāhā Lanā

[Machine] The Prophet of Allah ﷺ said, "Guard the prayers" [2:238]. He ﷺ also described the prayer as "the middle prayer" [2:238]. And he named it for us, that it is the Asr prayer.  

أحمد:٢٠٠٩١حَدَّثَنَا بَهْزٌ وَعَفَّانُ قَالَا حَدَّثَنَا أَبَانُ حَدَّثَنَا قَتَادَةُ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ سَمُرَةَ

أَنَّ نَبِيَّ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ {حَافِظُوا عَلَى الصَّلَوَاتِ} [البقرة 238] قَالَ عَفَّانُ الصَّلَاةِ {وَالصَّلَاةِ الْوُسْطَى} [البقرة 238] وَسَمَّاهَا لَنَا أَنَّهَا هِيَ صَلَاةُ الْعَصْرِ  


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tabarani:6823Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyá b. Ḥamzah al-Dimashqī > Abū al-Jumāhir > Saʿīd b. Bashīr > Qatādah > al-Ḥasan > Samurah b. Jundub > Nabī Allāh ﷺ Amaranā > Nuḥāfiẓ > al-Ṣalawāt And al-Ṣṣalāh al-Wusṭá

[Machine] "The Prophet of Allah ﷺ ordered us to be mindful of the prayers and the middle prayer, and informed us that it is the Asr prayer."  

الطبراني:٦٨٢٣حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَحْيَى بْنِ حَمْزَةَ الدِّمَشْقِيُّ ثنا أَبُو الْجُمَاهِرِ ثنا سَعِيدُ بْنُ بَشِيرٍ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ سَمُرَةَ بْنِ جُنْدُبٍ

«أَنَّ نَبِيَّ اللهِ ﷺ أَمَرَنَا أَنْ نُحَافِظَ عَلَى الصَّلَوَاتِ وَالصَّلَاةِ الْوُسْطَى وَأَنْبَأَنَا أَنَّهَا صَلَاةُ الْعَصْرِ»