<![CDATA[The determination of Asr prayer time is one of the most debated issues in Islamic jurisprudence, given that the hadiths serving as its basis contain various wordings that appear to contradict one another on the surface. This article aims to analyze the construction of hadiths concerning the beginning and end of Asr prayer time, identify the forms of apparent contradiction (ta'āruḍ lahiriyah) among those narrations, and trace the patterns of their resolution within the framework of comparative Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh muqaran). This study employs a qualitative approach through hadith textual analysis and comparative jurisprudence, with primary data sources drawn from canonical hadith collections and secondary sources consisting of classical fiqh literature and relevant contemporary studies. The findings indicate that the contradictions appearing among the Asr prayer time hadiths are merely apparent (lahiriyah), not genuine, and can be coherently resolved through the methods of al-jam'u wa al-tawfīq (reconciliation) and tarjīḥ (preponderance) within the tradition of Islamic legal theory (ushul fiqh). The divergence of opinions among the major legal schools regarding the beginning and end of Asr prayer time represents a product of scholarly ijtihad arising from differing methodologies of legal derivation, rather than any actual contradiction within the hadith corpus itself.]]>
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