حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَی قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَوْفٌ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْمِنْهَالِ قَالَ انْطَلَقْتُ مَعَ أَبِي إِلَی أَبِي بَرْزَةَ الْأَسْلَمِيِّ فَقَالَ لَهُ أَبِي حَدِّثْنَا کَيْفَ کَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّی اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يُصَلِّي الْمَکْتُوبَةَ قَالَ کَانَ يُصَلِّي الْهَجِيرَ وَهِيَ الَّتِي تَدْعُونَهَا الْأُولَی حِينَ تَدْحَضُ الشَّمْسُ وَيُصَلِّي الْعَصْرَ ثُمَّ يَرْجِعُ أَحَدُنَا إِلَی أَهْلِهِ فِي أَقْصَی الْمَدِينَةِ وَالشَّمْسُ حَيَّةٌ وَنَسِيتُ مَا قَالَ فِي الْمَغْرِبِ قَالَ وَکَانَ يَسْتَحِبُّ أَنْ يُؤَخِّرَ الْعِشَائَ قَالَ وَکَانَ يَکْرَهُ النَّوْمَ قَبْلَهَا وَالْحَدِيثَ بَعْدَهَا وَکَانَ يَنْفَتِلُ مِنْ صَلَاةِ الْغَدَاةِ حِينَ يَعْرِفُ أَحَدُنَا جَلِيسَهُ وَيَقْرَأُ مِنْ السِّتِّينَ إِلَی الْمِائَةِ
صحیح بخاری · Hadith 599
Narrated Abu-l-Minhal: My father and I went to Abi Barza Al-Aslami and my father said to him, "Tell us how Allah's Apostle used to offer the compulsory congregational prayers." He said, "He used to pray the Zuhr prayer, which you call the first prayer, as the sun declined at noon, the `Asr at a time when one of US could go to his family at the farthest place in Medina while the sun was still hot. (The narrator forgot what Abu Barza had said about the Maghrib prayer), and the Prophet preferred to pray the `Isha' late and disliked to sleep before it or talk after it. And he used to return after finishing the morning prayer at such a time when it was possible for one to recognize the person sitting by his side and he (the Prophet) used to recite 60 to 100 'Ayat' (verses) of the Qur'an in it."
Translated by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan · Reviewed by Islamic University of Madinah · Published March 2020