and it was also narrated by al-Bazzār (1025) through another chain from Abū Qutaybah, but there is an omission in it. I have found a supporting narration for the ḥadīth from the narration of Muṣād ibn ʿUqbah from Abū al-Zubayr from Jābir, reported as elevated. It was narrated by al-Khaṭīb in "al-Tārīkh" (12/360-361), and its narrators are trustworthy except for this Muṣād. Ibn Abī Ḥātim mentioned him (4/1/4040) with the narration of three trustworthy narrators, and he did not mention any criticism or praise about him, so the ḥadīth is ḥasan, if Allāh wills. His saying: (waḍaḥ) with a motion refers to the whiteness of dawn as in "al-Qāmūs". And in "al-Nihāyah": "meaning from light to light. And it was said: from crescent to crescent, and this is the correct view because the context of the ḥadīth indicates it, and its completion is: 'If it is obscured from you, then complete the count to thirty days.' I said: I have not seen the ḥadīth in this complete form, so if it is authentic with it, then it is the correct view, otherwise what I see—and Allāh knows best—is that the meaning is: fast from pre-dawn meal to pre-dawn meal. He permitted them to continue fasting between them, and this is explicitly mentioned in the ḥadīth of Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī that the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: 'Do not continue fasting, but if any of you wishes to continue, let him continue until the pre-dawn.' It was narrated by al-Bukhārī (no. 962, in summary) and Ibn Khuzaymah and others, and it is included in "Ṣaḥīḥ Abī Dāwūd" (2044).

- "The night prayer is two by two, and the last part of the night is the best time for supplication." It was narrated by Aḥmad (4/387): Abū al-Yamān told us, saying: Abū Bakr ibn ʿAbd Allāh narrated from Ḥabīb ibn ʿUbayd from ʿAmr ibn ʿAbasah, reported as elevated, saying: "I said: Is it obligatory? He said: No, rather it is the best time for response. Meaning by that the response [to supplication]."