Abu Hurairah said, I set out for Mount Tur and met Kaab al-Ahbar there, so I sat with him. He related to me from the Torah, and I related to him from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. Among the things I told him was that I said, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "The best day on which the sun has risen is Friday. On it Adam was created, on it he was sent down from Paradise, on it his repentance was accepted, on it he died, and on it the Hour will arrive. Every animal listens attentively on Friday from daybreak until sunrise, fearful of the Hour, except for jinn and humans. In it there is an hour during which no Muslim servant happens to be praying and asks Allah for something except that Allah grants it to him."Kaab asked, "Is that one day each year?"I replied, "No, it is every Friday."Kaab then read the Torah and said, "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ has spoken the truth."Abu Hurairah continued, Then I met Abdullah bin Salam and told him about my sitting with Kaab al-Ahbar and what I had related to him concerning Friday. I said, "Kaab said it is one day each year."Abdullah bin Salam said, "Kaab was mistaken."I said, "Then Kaab read the Torah and said, 'Rather, it is every Friday.'"Abdullah bin Salam said, "Kaab has spoken the truth."Then Abdullah bin Salam said, "I know exactly which hour it is."Abu Hurairah said, I said to him, "Tell me about it and do not withhold it from me."Abdullah bin Salam said, "It is the last hour of Friday."Abu Hurairah said, I asked, "How can it be the last hour of Friday when the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, 'No Muslim servant happens upon it while he is praying,' yet that hour is one in which no prayer is performed?"Abdullah bin Salam replied, "Did the Messenger of Allah ﷺ not say, 'Whoever sits in a place waiting for the prayer is considered to be in prayer until he prays'?"Abu Hurairah said, I said, "Yes."He said, "Then that is it."
خرجت إلى الطور، فلقيت كعب الأحبار، فجلست معه، فحدثني عن التوراة، وحدثته عن رسول الله ﷺ. فكان فيما حدثته أن قلت: قال رسول الله ﷺ: خير يوم طلعت عليه الشمس يوم الجمعة، فيه خلق آدم، وفيه أهبط من الجنة، وفيه تيب عليه، وفيه مات، وفيه تقوم الساعة، وما من دابة إلا وهي مصيحة يوم الجمعة من حين تصبح حتى تطلع الشمس، شفقا من الساعة، إلا الجن والإنس. وفيه ساعة لا يصادفها عبد مسلم وهو يصلي يسأل الله شيئا إلا أعطاه إياه. قال كعب: ذلك في كل سنة يوم؟ فقلت: بل في كل جمعة. فقرأ كعب التوراة فقال: صدق رسول الله ﷺ… قال أبو هريرة: ثم لقيت عبد الله بن سلام فحدثته بمجلسي مع كعب الأحبار، وما حدثته به في يوم الجمعة، فقلت: قال كعب: ذلك في كل سنة يوم. قال: قال عبد الله بن سلام كذب كعب. فقلت: ثم قرأ كعب التوراة فقال: بل هي في كل جمعة. فقال عبد الله بن سلام: صدق كعب. ثم قال عبد الله بن سلام: قد علمت أية ساعة هي. قال أبو هريرة: فقلت له: أخبرني بها ولا تضن علي. فقال عبد الله بن سلام: هي آخر ساعة في يوم الجمعة قال أبو هريرة فقلت: وكيف تكون آخر ساعة في يوم الجمعة وقد قال رسول الله ﷺ: لا يصادفها عبد مسلم وهو يصلي. وتلك الساعة ساعة لا يصلى فيها؟ فقال عبد الله بن سلام: ألم يقل رسول الله ﷺ: من جلس مجلسا ينتظر الصلاة فهو في صلاة حتى يصلي؟ قال أبو هريرة: فقلت: بلى. قال: فهو ذلك.
Malik related it in the chapter on Friday (16), from Yazid bin Abdullah bin Had, from Muhammad bin Ibrahim bin Harith Taymi, from Abu Salama bin Abdul-Rahman bin Awf, from Abu Hurairah, and mentioned it as we have given it.Abu Dawud (1046) and Tirmidhi (491) also related it, and Ibn Hibban (2772) and Hakim (1/178) graded it sahih, all of them through the route of Malik with the same wording.Nasai (1430) related it from Qutayba, who said, narrated to us Bakr (meaning bin Mudar), from Ibn Hadi. Its isnad is sahih.Hakim said, "This is a hadith sahih according to the criterion of the two Shaykhs, though they did not include it."As for his words "musikha," it means attentively listening, awaiting the coming of the Hour.