Ahmad 4545

Its chain is sahih. It was also narrated by the authors of the six books, as in al-Muntaqa 556, and see what comes at 4621. "Wutira" (وتر) is in the passive voice. Ibn Athir said, that is, "diminished." One says, "watartuhu" when you diminish him, as if you made him odd (witr) after he had been many. It is also said that it comes from al-witr, meaning the offense that a man commits against another, such as killing, plundering, or taking captives. So whoever misses the Asr prayer is likened to one who has lost a loved one to killing or has had his family and property taken from him.It is narrated with both the accusative and nominative case for "ahl" (family). Whoever uses the accusative makes it a second object of "watara," with an implied subject for the passive verb referring back to the one who missed the prayer. Whoever uses the nominative does not make this implication, but instead makes "ahl" stand in place of the unnamed subject, since they are the ones afflicted and taken. So whoever attributes the loss to the man puts it in the accusative, and whoever attributes it to the family and property puts them in the nominative.