سنن نسائی · Hadith 498

Shu’bah said: “Sayyar bin Salamah, narrated to us, he said: ‘I heard my father ask Abu Barzah about the prayer of the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وآلہ وسلم.’ I said: ‘Did you really hear him?’ He said: ‘As I can hear you now.’ He said: ‘I heard my father ask about the prayer of the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وآلہ وسلم.‘ He said: ‘He would not mind if he delayed it — meaning ‘Isha’ until midnight, and he did not like to sleep before it or speak after it.” Shu’bah said: “Then I met him later on and asked him. He said: ‘He used to pray Zuhr when the sun had passed its zenith, and (he would pray) ‘Asr and a man could walk to the farthest point in Al-Madinah and the sun would still be clear and hot. And Maghrib, I do not know the time he mentioned.’ After that I met him and asked him, and he said: ‘He used to pray Fajr then after the prayer a man could regarding it, sitting next to him, look at the face of someone he knew and he could recognize it.’ He said: ‘And he used to recite in it between sixty and one hundred (verses).” (Sahih)

Translated by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan · Reviewed by Islamic University of Madinah · Published March 2020