A questioner’s query regarding the hadith of 'Amr ibn 'Ubaydah, in which he said: I said, “O Messenger of Allah, inform me about the prayer.”

Here the questioner says: After the Basmalah, “In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate”: A hadith you mentioned in your book *Al-Hijab*, page so-and-so, from 'Amr ibn 'Ubaydah, who said: I said, “O Messenger of Allah, inform me about the prayer.” He said: ; until the sun rises and then ascends; to the end of it. And he said to him the same regarding after 'Asr. Then you attributed it to Muslim and Abu 'Uwanah, but it is not so in Muslim, and the book is with me?
I say to the questioner: A question like this should be raised in a specific scholarly session. It is not reasonable for us to take *Sahih Muslim* now and search through it, you and I. We might manage to find the truth or confirm the error, but only after a long struggle, and we would have wasted a great deal of time on our brothers. This is a scholarly issue. Suppose I was right, then your error has become clear. Suppose I was wrong, then your correctness has become clear. What have we gained? Is the hadith authentic or not? The hadith is authentic; praise be to Allah. But if he says, “You attributed it to Muslim, and the attribution is not correct, and the hadith itself is not authentic,” that is a very serious matter. It requires us to stop the entire session and verify the weakness of this hadith, if the claim is that it is weak. As for my attributing it to so-and-so and so-and-so, and the fact that your attribution to Muslim is not correct, the matter in this case is easy. It is not appropriate to raise such a thing in such gatherings. And given the tightness of my time, which many of my brothers know, I say: We can meet tomorrow at an agreed-upon time to study this issue.