حَدَّثَنَا حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ ، أنا حَمَدُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍ زَاجٌ ، نا عَبْدُ الْمَلِكِ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الْجُدِّيُّ ، نا عَبْدُ الْمَلِكِ بْنُ شَدَّادٍ الْجُرَيْرِيُّ ، نا ثَابِتٌ الْبُنَانِيُّ ، عَنْ أَنَسٍ ، قَالَ : " إِنْ كَانَ الْغَرِيبُ لَيَدْخُلُ مَسْجِدَ الْمَدِينَةِ وَقَدْ نُودِيَ بِالْمَغْرِبِ ، فَيَرَى أَنَّ النَّاسَ قَدْ صَلُّوا مِنْ كَثْرَةِ مَنْ يُصَلِّي رَكْعَتَيْنِ قَبْلَ الْمَغْرِبِ " .
Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: Sometimes a stranger would enter the mosque of Madinah and find people performing prayer at the time of Maghrib, and it would seem as if the congregational prayer had already been offered, because there were so many people performing two rak‘ahs before the Maghrib prayer.