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The ḥadīth of Asmāʾ regarding the return of the sun includes Faḍīl ibn Marzūq, who has been declared weak, and it has another chain that includes Ibn ʿUqdah, a Rāfiḍī who was accused of lying and labeled a lying Rāfiḍī. I say: Faḍīl is trustworthy (ṣadūq); Muslim and the four Sunan compilers relied upon him. As for Ibn ʿUqdah, he is among the great ḥadīth masters and trustworthy among the people. Those who weakened him were biased extremists. A number of scholars explicitly declared this ḥadīth authentic.
Among them is al-Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ. In al-Laʾālī, from Asmāʾ bint ʿUmays, it is narrated: “The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was receiving revelation while his head was in ʿAlī’s lap, and he did not pray the afternoon prayer until the sun had set. He then said: ‘O Allah, indeed he was in obedience to You and obedience to Your Messenger, so return the sun for him.’ So it rose again after it had set.”
It was said that this ḥadīth is objectionable (munkar), and it was said that it is fabricated. I say: a group of leading ḥadīth masters explicitly stated that it is authentic. In al-Maqāṣid, the return of the sun for ʿAlī is mentioned. Aḥmad said, “It has no basis,” and Ibn al-Jawzī followed him; however, al-Ṭaḥāwī authenticated it, as did the author of al-Saqā, and likewise the return of the sun for the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him).