then you should say 'Āmīn'..." meaning: when it reaches the point of saying 'Āmīn' as previously mentioned by the ḥāfiẓ. Although Ibn al-ʿArabī found it unlikely, it must be relied upon due to this narration. Therefore, I repeatedly remind the majority of the worshippers to pay attention to this sunnah and not to precede the imam in saying 'Āmīn'. Rather, they should wait until they hear him pronounce the 'Ā' of 'Āmīn' and then say it with him. We ask Allāh, the Exalted, to grant us success in following the truth wherever it may be. Indeed, He is the All-Hearing, the Responsive. In this narration, there is another benefit, which is the audible saying of 'Āmīn' by those following the prayer. This is something I leaned towards in another book because it matches another authentic narration from Ibn al-Zubayr and a ḥadīth of Abū Hurayrah that I discussed its isnād there (956), so refer to it.

"A man may pray for sixty years, yet not a single prayer of his is accepted. Perhaps he completes the bowing but not the prostration, or completes the prostration but not the bowing." It was recorded by al-Aṣbahānī in "al-Targhīb" (p. 236/2) through the route of Abū al-Shaykh from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal: Abū al-Shaʿthāʾ narrated to us, ʿAbdah narrated to us from Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr from Abū Salamah from Abū Hurayrah, attributed to the Prophet. I say: This isnād is ḥasan, all its narrators are trustworthy, with a slight weakness in Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr, but he is considered to have ḥasan ḥadīth. ʿAbdah is Ibn Sulaymān al-Kilābī Abū Muḥammad al-Kūfī, and he is among the narrators of the two Shaykhs. Abū al-Shaʿthāʾ's name is ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Sulaymān al-Ḥaḍramī, and he is a trustworthy narrator from the teachers of Muslim. Al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Mundhirī did not recall the condition of its isnād, so he said in "al-Targhīb" (1/182):