they rise against rulers who do not govern by Islam, leading to much turmoil and the shedding of innocent blood merely due to enthusiasm that has not been properly prepared. In my view, the duty is to purify Islam from what is not part of it, such as false beliefs, ineffective rulings, and opinions that contradict the sunnah, and to educate the generation on this purified Islam. Allāh is the One whose help is sought. The discussion on this important issue has been detailed, Allāh willing, under the preceding ḥadīth (2552).

- "He used to pray four rakʿahs before ẓuhr, prolonging the standing and perfecting the bowing and prostration in them. However, what he never omitted, whether healthy or ill, present or absent, were the two rakʿahs before fajr." It was recorded by Aḥmad (6/43), al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Awsaṭ" (7610), and al-Khaṭīb in "al-Tārīkh" (6/284-285) in a shortened form from the route of Qābūs from his father, who said: My father sent a woman to ʿĀʾishah to ask her: Which prayer was most beloved to the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) to consistently perform? She said: and mentioned it. I said: This isnād has trustworthy men except for Qābūs—who is Ibn Abī Ẓibyān—and he is considered weak as noted in "al-Taqrīb." However, he has been corroborated, as al-Ṭayālisī said in "Musnad" (no. 524 in its arrangement): Qays ibn al-Rabīʿ narrated to us from Abū Ẓibyān from Umm Jaʿfar, who said: I asked ʿĀʾishah about the prayer of the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam)? She said: and mentioned it. I said: And Qays is weak like Qābūs, so one strengthens the other. And Umm Jaʿfar, it appears, is the woman mentioned in the first narration, though I did not recognize her. It is mentioned in "al-Tahdhīb" under the kunyah (Umm Jaʿfar), then it refers to the biography of Umm ʿAwn. It said there: