Muqatil Ibn Sulayman

Muqatil ibn Sulayman, one of the Zaydis, the transmitters of hadith and the readers. He wrote the great commentary (al-Tafsir al-Kabir) and the Book of the Abrogating and the Abrogated. The Sealed Nectar relays from him what was first made obligatory of prayer. ¹

The Sealed Nectar relays from him that God made obligatory at the beginning of Islam the prayer of two rak'as in the morning and two in the evening, citing the verse of Ghafir 55 (the prayer before the Night Journey). ^{2 3 4}