The Book of Mosques and Places of Prayer-08a

The reciter: Yahya ibn Yahya narrated to us, saying: I read to Malik from Zayd ibn Aslam from 'Ata ibn Yasar, and from Busr ibn Sa'id, and from al-A'raj, who narrated to him from Abu Hurayrah that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: .

The Shaykh : This is a part of what preceded, regarding catching the time. And his saying: , from this it may be taken that whoever catches one rak'ah of the 'Asr prayer before the setting of the sun, it is not obligatory for him to pray the Zuhr, just as if a menstruating woman became pure one hour before sunset; here she caught one rak'ah of the 'Asr before the sun set, so she has caught the 'Asr. But is it obligatory for her to make up the Zuhr along with the 'Asr? The correct view is that it is not obligatory for her, because she did not catch the time of the Zuhr. And as for those who say that the Zuhr is combined with the 'Asr, it is said to them: What do you think if she started menstruating one hour after the sun reached its zenith, then became pure, what would she make up? Only the Zuhr, only. Why did you not say that she makes up the 'Asr, because the 'Asr is combined with the Zuhr? In both cases, the time passed over her, or the time of both passed over her while she was menstruating. The one who became pure during the time of 'Asr, the time of Zuhr passed over her while she was menstruating, and the one who started menstruating during the time of Zuhr, the time of 'Asr passed over her while she was menstruating, so there is no difference. The important point is that in this hadith there is also evidence for what is established in Sahih and other sources that the time of 'Asr is until the sun turns yellow, or until the shadow of a thing is twice its length; this is the time of choice. And the time of necessity extends until sunset. It is not correct to analogize 'Isha' to this, because the texts have come that its time is until the middle of the night, and there is no necessity in the time of 'Isha'. And most of the jurists, as far as I know, say that the time of 'Isha' until the middle of the night is the time of choice, and until the dawn is the time of necessity, but there is no evidence for that.