حَدَّثَنَا مُؤَمَّلُ بْنُ هِشَامٍ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَعِيلُ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْحَقَ حَدَّثَنِي عَلِيُّ بْنُ يَحْيَی بْنِ خَلَّادِ بْنِ رَافِعٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَمِّهِ رِفَاعَةَ بْنِ رَافِعٍ عَنْ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّی اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ بِهَذِهِ الْقِصَّةِ قَالَ إِذَا أَنْتَ قُمْتَ فِي صَلَاتِکَ فَکَبِّرْ اللَّهَ تَعَالَی ثُمَّ اقْرَأْ مَا تَيَسَّرَ عَلَيْکَ مِنْ الْقُرْآنِ وَقَالَ فِيهِ فَإِذَا جَلَسْتَ فِي وَسَطِ الصَّلَاةِ فَاطْمَئِنَّ وَافْتَرِشْ فَخِذَکَ الْيُسْرَی ثُمَّ تَشَهَّدْ ثُمَّ إِذَا قُمْتَ فَمِثْلَ ذَلِکَ حَتَّی تَفْرُغَ مِنْ صَلَاتِکَ
سنن ابودوٗد · Hadith 860
This tradition has also been transmitted by Rifaah b Rafi through a different chain of narrators. This version has: When you get up to pray, say the takbir, exalting Allah; then recite the Quran as much as it is convenient for you. The version adds: When you sit in the middle of the prayer, do it completely (so that you are at rest) and spread your left thigh; then recite the tashahhud. Then if you get up (again), do in a similar way until you finish your prayer.
Translated by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan · Reviewed by Islamic University of Madinah · Published March 2020