and it was narrated by other eminent scholars, and it is included in "Ṣifat al-Ṣalāh." I only included it here due to the rarity of this source. The ḥadīth clearly indicates the permissibility of prompting the imām if he hesitates in recitation, and the opinion in some schools that the follower, if he wishes to prompt his imām, should intend to recite! This view is refuted by merely mentioning it!

"I came with my masters intending to emigrate, until we approached the city. He said: They entered the city and left me behind them. He said: I was struck by severe hunger. He said: Some people passing from the city said to me: 'If you enter the city, you could obtain some fruit from its orchards.' So I entered an orchard and cut two bunches from it. The owner of the orchard came to me and took me to the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) and informed him of my situation. I was wearing two garments. He said to me: 'Which of them is better?' I pointed to one of them, and he said: 'Take it,' and he gave the other to the owner of the orchard and set me free." It was narrated by Aḥmad (5/223): Rabīʿ ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to us, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān—meaning Ibn Isḥāq—narrated to us: my father narrated to us, from his uncle and from Abū Bakr ibn Zayd ibn al-Muhājir, that they both heard ʿUmayr, the freed slave of Abū al-Laḥm, and he mentioned it. I said: This is a good isnād; all its narrators are trustworthy and well-known except for the uncle of Isḥāq, who is Isḥāq ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Kinānah al-ʿĀmirī. I did not recognize him, but this does not affect the isnād, as he is paired with Abū Bakr ibn Zayd ibn al-Muhājir, who is a trustworthy narrator from the narrators of Muslim, and his name is Muḥammad, and his kunya is Abū Bakr, as confirmed by the ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar in..