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 222. Mukhtar bin Fulful said: I asked anas bin Malik, about the Nafl (voluntary prayer) after the ´Ars prayer, he repiled: ´´Umar used to his the hands for performing prayer after the ´Ars prayer and we used to perform two Rak´ah after sunset before the Maghrib during the time of the Messenger of Allah salla alayhi wa sallam.´´ I said to him: ´´Did the Messenger of Allah salla alayhi wa sallam perform them?´´ He said: ´´He saw us performing them, but he neither commanded nor forbade us to do so.´´

 221. Jabir bin´Abdullah narrated: ´Umar bin Al-Khattab swore at the pagans of the Quraish on the day of (the battle of) Khandaq. (He came to the Prophet salla alayhi wa sallam) and said: ´´O Messenger of Allah! by Allah, I could not perform the ´Ars prayer until sunset.´´ Upon this, the Messenger of Allah salla alayhi wa sallam said: ´´By Allah I, too, have not prayed.´´ So we went to Buthan (a valley). The Messenger of Allah salla alayhi wa sallam performed Wudu and so did we, and then the Messenger of Allah salla alayhi wa sallam performed the ´Ars prayer after the sun had set, and then ´Ars prayer after the sun had set, and then offered the Magrib after it.

 220. Abu Salamah said that he asked ´Aishah, about the two prostrations (i.e., Rak´ah) which the Messenger of Allah salla alayhi wa sallam used to pray after the ´Ars. She said: ´´He performed them before the ´Ars prayer, but when he was hindered to do so, or he forgot them, then he performed them after the ´Ars and then he was regular on performing them. (It was his habit) that when he (the Prophet salla alayhi wa sallam) performed any prayer, he then continued doing it.´´ Isma´il bin Ja´far said: ´´Ít implies that he always did that.´´

 219. ´Ulaiy bin Rabah said: I heard ´Uqbah bin ´Amir Al-Juhni say: ´´There are three times during which the Messenger of Allah salla alayhi wa sallam forbade us to pray, or to bury our dead: When the sun begins to rise until it becomes high, when the sun is at its heights at midday until it passes meridian, and when the sun draws near setting until it sets.´´

217. ´Abdullah bin Mas´ud narrated: The polytheists detained the Messenger of Allah salla alayhi wa sallam from the ´Ars until the sun became red or yellow. Upon this, the Messenger of Allah salla alayhi wa sallam said: ´´They have kept us busy to perform the middle prayer, the ´Ars prayer. May Allah fill their bellies and their graves with fire (or he said: May Allah stuff their bellies and graves with fire).´´

 218. Abu Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allah salla alayhi wa sallam forbade performing Salat (Prayer) after the ´Ars prayer until the sun sets, and performing Salat after Fajr prayer until the sun rises.