"the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) prostrated at the end of (al-Najm), and [those present with him from] the jinn, humans, and trees prostrated with him." Al-Suyūṭī attributed it in "al-Durr" (6/121) only to Ibn Mardawayh! There are other ḥadīths regarding his prostration (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) in (al-Najm), some of which are in "the two Ṣaḥīḥs"; like the ḥadīth of Ibn Masʿūd, which is recorded in "Ṣaḥīḥ Abū Dāwūd" (1267). However, in the prostration of Abū Hurayrah with him (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam), there is a valuable point that refutes the claim of those who allege that the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) did not prostrate while in Medina, due to the late conversion of Abū Hurayrah (raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhu). Therefore, the ḥāfiẓ mentioned this ḥadīth and followed it with his statement—after verifying its narrators as previously mentioned: "Ibn Mardawayh narrated in 'al-Tafsīr' with a good isnād from al-ʿAlāʾ ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān from his father from Abū Salamah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān: that he saw Abū Hurayrah prostrate at the end of (al-Najm); so he asked him, and he said: He saw the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) prostrate in it." And Abū Hurayrah only embraced Islam in Medina. ʿAbd al-Razzāq narrated with a ṣaḥīḥ isnād from al-Aswad ibn Yazīd from ʿUmar: that he prostrated in (Idhā al-Samāʾ Inshaqqat). And from the path of Nāfiʿ from Ibn ʿUmar: that he prostrated in it. This refutes those who claim that the practice of the people of Medina continued to abandon prostration in the mufṣal. Know that it has been narrated about the prostration of the inkwell and the pen in a vision seen by Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī (raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhu) when he recited Sūrah (Ṣād) in a ḥadīth narrated by Aḥmad and others, which is recorded in "al-Ṣaḥīḥah" (2710) and "Ṣaḥīḥ Abū Dāwūd" under ḥadīth (1271). It may be said: Perhaps the mention of the prostration of the inkwell and the pen in the ḥadīth of the translation is an error from some of its narrators; a ḥadīth entered into another ḥadīth. And Allāh knows best. *