Tafsir Ibn Abbas: At-Tur, Ayah 49
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and glorify Him at night — also in actual utterance — and at the receding of the stars idbāra is a verbal noun that is to say also glorify Him after these have set; or it means in the case of the former perform the two evening prayers and in the case of the latter the two units rak‘a of the dawn prayer or — it is said — the morning prayer.
Related Hadiths
The Prophet (ﷺ) used to recite "By the heaven holding the big stars" and: "By the heaven, and At-Tariq (the night-comer, i.e. the bright star)" and similar surahs in Zuhr and 'Asr.
I said the dawn prayer behind the Apostle of (ﷺ) and heard him reciting: 'Nay. I call to witness the stars, running their courses and setting" (al-Qur'an, lxxxi. 15-16) and Done of us bent his back ti...
"As you see a glittering star remaining in the eastern horizon and the western horizon."
that the Prophet (ﷺ) said: "And at the setting of the stars (52:49) (about) the two Rak'ah before Fajr. And after the prostrations (50:40) 'The two Rak'at after Al-Maghrib.'"
We offered the sunset prayer along with Allah's Apostle (ﷺ). We then said: If we sit (along with Allah's Messenger) and observe night prayer with him it would be very good, so we sat down and he came ...
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to recite in the noon and afternoon prayer: "By the Heaven and the Morning Star" (Surah 86) and "By the Heaven , holding mansions of the stars" (Surah 85) and similar s...
Or he enjoined what is good, ... and said: He enters the evening .
The solar eclipse took place... The narrator then narrated the tradition like that of Musa. The narrator again said: Until the stars appear (in the heaven).
Abdullah ibn Dinar said: The sun set when I was with Abdullah ibn Umar. We proceeded, and when we saw that the evening came, we said prayer. He went on travelling until the twilight disappeared and th...
"The most truthful of dreams are in the last hours of the night."
Ibn Abbas Commentary
(And in the night time) upon the advent of the night (also hymn His praise) pray for Him the prayer of Zuhr, 'Asr, Maghrib and 'Isha', (and at the setting of the stars) two units of prayers after Fajr, and the setting of the star when it goes down'.