I said: And this is an isnād that is extremely authentic according to the criteria of the two Shaykhs, and Abū ʿAwānah, whose name is al-Waḍḍāḥ al-Yashkurī, is a reliable and established authority, as the ḥāfiẓ said in "al-Taqrīb." Shuʿbah differed with him in its text, narrating it from Ibrāhīm with it, except that he said: ".. four before ẓuhr," instead of the two rakʿahs after ʿaṣr. It was recorded by al-Bukhārī and others, and it is included in "Ṣaḥīḥ Abī Dāwūd" number (1139). It appears to me—and Allāh knows best—that both narrations are preserved due to the reliability and precision of their narrators, and because there are many paths for the two rakʿahs from ʿĀʾishah, some of which will be mentioned, by the permission of Allāh the Exalted. Al-Ṭaḥāwī also recorded it in "Sharḥ al-Maʿānī" (1/177) through the route of Hilāl ibn Yaḥyá who said: Abū ʿAwānah narrated it to us with it, except that he inserted Masrūq between Muḥammad ibn al-Munkadir and ʿĀʾishah. This Hilāl is weak. Ibn Ḥibbān said in "al-Ḍuʿafāʾ" (3/88): "He made many mistakes despite his few narrations." Yes, the ḥadīth of Masrūq has a sound origin through another narration, as if it got mixed up with this one. Imām Aḥmad said (6/241): Isḥāq ibn Yūsuf narrated to us, saying: Masʿar narrated to us from ʿAmr ibn Murrah from Abū al-Ḍuḥá from Masrūq who said: al-Ṣiddīqah bint al-Ṣiddīq, the beloved of the Beloved of Allāh, the one exonerated, told me that the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) used to pray two rakʿahs after ʿaṣr. And this isnād is also authentic according to the criteria of the two Shaykhs, and they both recorded it through another route from Masrūq, paired with al-Aswad, with the wording: "There was no day that came upon the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) except that he prayed two rakʿahs after ʿaṣr." And in a narration with the wording: