It is considered sunnah for one to sit a short time after the adhān of maghrib. There are two matters here: ‘sitting’ and ‘’a short time’, and thus two sunnah acts:
To sit, separating the adhān from the iqāmah.
To make this sitting short. This is explicitly stated because there are some scholars who adopt the opinion that the sunnah for the adhān of Maghrib is that it should immediately be followed by the iqāmah. This is meant to clarify that it is better to sit a short time between the two calls.
The evidence for this is that the Messenger (صلى الله عليه وسلم) said: “Pray before Maghri…
al-ʿAllāmah ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yaḥyá al-Muʿalimí (d. 1386AH) mentions in his book, “al-Tankīl” which he authored in criticism of Muḥammad Zāhid al-Kawtharī, specifically, regarding the narrator of ḥadīth: al-Mughīrah ibn Siglāb al-Jazarī (d. 202 AH):
al-Mughīrah (ibn Siglāb al-Jazarī), was declared weak by Ibn ʿAdī (d. 365 AH). Ibn Abī Ḥātim recalls from his father that he mentioned about him, “He was upright”, and that Abū Zurʿah (al-Rāzī) says about him, “A Jazarī1 who was fine”.
I say: the praise of foreigners [i.e. those unaware of his condition] does not increase a narrator who has bee…
