Sa'id bin Jubayr narrates from Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both): "The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) prayed Zuhr and Asr together, and likewise Maghrib and Isha, without any fear or journey." Imam Malik (may Allah have mercy on him) said: My view is that he did this because of rain.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصلاة / 5543
Hammad bin Salamah (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates from Abu al-Zubayr (may Allah have mercy on him): "without fear or journey", but he did not mention Maghrib and Isha, and he said: in Madinah. Qurrah bin Khalid (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates from Abu al-Zubayr (may Allah have mercy on him) that this is the account of the journey he (peace and blessings be upon him) made towards Tabuk.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصلاة / 5544
Sa'id bin Jubayr narrates from Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) prayed Zuhr and Asr combined in Madinah, without any fear or journey. Abu al-Zubayr said: I asked Sa'id: Why did he (peace and blessings be upon him) do that? He said: I too asked Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) just as you have asked me, and he said: His (peace and blessings be upon him) intention was that no one of his Ummah should be put to hardship.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصلاة / 5545
Sa'id bin Jubayr narrates from Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) combined Zuhr and Asr in Madinah without any fear or journey.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصلاة / 5546
(a) Jabir bin Zayd (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I heard Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) say: I prayed with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) eight (rak'ahs) together and seven (rak'ahs) together.
(b) Sa'id bin Jubayr (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both): I said to Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both): Why did he (peace and blessings be upon him) do that? He said: So that there would be no hardship for his (peace and blessings be upon him) Ummah. Sufyan (may Allah have mercy on him) added some words: without fear or journey.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصلاة / 5547
Sa'id bin Jubayr (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates from Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) combined Zuhr, Asr, Maghrib and Isha in Madinah without any fear or journey. I said: O Ibn Abbas, what was his (peace and blessings be upon him) intention? He said: So that his (peace and blessings be upon him) Ummah would not be put in hardship.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصلاة / 5548
Sa'id bin Jubayr (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates from Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) combined Zuhr and Asr, and Maghrib and Isha, during the journey of the Battle of Tabuk. I said to Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both): What prompted him to do that? He said: So that his (peace and blessings be upon him) Ummah would not be put in hardship.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصلاة / 5549
(a) Sa'id bin Jubayr narrates from Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) combined Zuhr and Asr, and Maghrib and Isha, in Madinah without any fear or rain. It was said: What was his (peace and blessings be upon him) intention? He said: "So that his (peace and blessings be upon him) Ummah would not be put in hardship."
(b) Waki' states in his narration that Sa'id said: I said to Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both): Why did the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) do that? He said: So that his (peace and blessings be upon him) Ummah would not be put in hardship.
Al-Bukhari did not record it, even though Habib bin Abi Thabit meets his condition; perhaps, and Allah knows best, he avoided it because of the disagreement over Sa'id bin Jubayr in its wording. The narration of the group from Abu al-Zubayr is more likely to be the preserved one.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصلاة / 5550
(a) Jabir bin Zayd (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates from Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) prayed seven and eight (rak'ahs together) in Madinah: Zuhr and Asr, and Maghrib and Isha.
(b) At the end of the narration of Hammad bin Zayd (may Allah have mercy on him) it says that Ayyub (may Allah have mercy on him) said: Perhaps it was on a rainy night.
(c) It is narrated from Amr bin Dinar (may Allah have mercy on him) that he interpreted it as delaying Zuhr to the end of its time and praying Asr early at the start of its time.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصلاة / 5551
Jabir bin Zayd (may Allah have mercy on him) says that he heard Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) say: I prayed with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) eight (rak'ahs) together and seven together. I said: O Abu al-Sha'tha', I think he delayed Zuhr and prayed Asr early, and delayed Maghrib and prayed Isha early. He said: I think so too.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصلاة / 5552
Abdullah bin Shaqiq says that one day after Asr, Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) addressed (the people), until the sun set and the stars appeared. People began saying: The prayer! The prayer! A man from Banu Tamim came, saying without stopping: The prayer! The prayer! So he said: May you have no mother! Will you teach me the Sunnah? Then he said: I saw the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) combining Zuhr and Asr, and Maghrib and Isha. Abdullah bin Shaqiq says: Something troubled me in my heart, so I went to Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) and asked him, and he (may Allah be pleased with him) also confirmed what he had said.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصلاة / 5553
(a) Abdullah bin Shaqiq al-Uqayli says that a man said to Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both): The prayer! He remained silent. He said again: The prayer! He again remained silent. He said again: The prayer! He again remained silent. Then he said: May you have no mother! Are you teaching us about prayer? We used to combine these two prayers in the time of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him).
(b) In both narrations of Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) there is no negation of rain or of travel; rather, both are to be understood as referring to one of the two.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصلاة / 5554
Mu'adh bin Abdullah bin Khubayb narrates from Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that he combined these two prayers (Maghrib and Isha) in the rain before the twilight disappeared.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصلاة / 5555
Nafi' narrates from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that when the rulers combined Maghrib and Isha, he too would combine them along with them on a rainy night.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصلاة / 5556
Hisham bin Urwah (may Allah have mercy on him) says that his father (may Allah have mercy on him), Sa'id bin al-Musayyib (may Allah have mercy on him) and Abu Bakr bin Abd al-Rahman bin al-Harith bin Hisham bin al-Mughirah al-Makhzumi (may Allah have mercy on him), all of these men, would combine Maghrib and Isha on a rainy night, and they did not object to it.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصلاة / 5557
Musa bin Uqbah (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates about Umar bin Abd al-Aziz (may Allah have mercy on him) that when it rained he would combine Maghrib and Isha. Sa'id bin al-Musayyib (may Allah have mercy on him), Urwah bin al-Zubayr (may Allah have mercy on him), Abu Bakr bin Abd al-Rahman (may Allah have mercy on him) and others would also pray with them, and they did not object to it.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصلاة / 5558