weak." I said: The wording of al-Ṭabarānī as in "al-Jāmiʿ al-Ṣaghīr" is: "He liked to meet the enemy when the sun declined." Ibn ʿAyyāsh was contradicted by Abū Isḥāq al-Fazārī in his isnād, who said: from Mūsá ibn ʿUqbah from Sālim Abū al-Naḍr, the client of ʿUmar ibn ʿUbayd Allāh - who was his scribe - he said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Awfá wrote to him and I read it: "that the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) on one of the days when he met the enemy waited until the sun declined, then he stood among the people and said..." It was recorded by al-Bukhārī (6/91 - Fatḥ) and al-Bayhaqī (9/152). And it was narrated by Aḥmad (4/353-354) through the route of Abū Ḥayyān who said: I heard an elder in Medina narrate that ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Awfá wrote to ʿUbayd Allāh when he intended to fight the Khawārij, so I said to his scribe - who was my friend -: copy it for me, and he did, that the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) ... " and he mentioned it with the wording: "he would wait, and when the sun declined, he would advance towards his enemy... then he said." Its narrators are trustworthy except for the unnamed elder. And the ḥāfiẓ said after mentioning the ḥadīth of the chapter from the narration of Aḥmad: "And Saʿīd ibn Manṣūr has from another route from Ibn Abī Awfá: the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) would delay (!) when the sun declined, then he would advance towards his enemy."

- "He loved squash." It was recorded by Aḥmad (3/177 and 274) from Shuʿbah who said: I heard Qatādah narrate, he said: I heard Anas ibn Mālik say: and he mentioned it. In another wording: "gourd," he said: