أَخْبَرَنَا سُوَيْدُ بْنُ نَصْرٍ قَالَ أَنْبَأَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ عَنْ عَوْفٍ عَنْ سَيَّارِ بْنِ سَلَامَةَ قَالَ دَخَلْتُ أَنَا وَأَبِي عَلَی أَبِي بَرْزَةَ الْأَسْلَمِيِّ فَقَالَ لَهُ أَبِي أَخْبِرْنَا کَيْفَ کَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّی اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يُصَلِّي الْمَکْتُوبَةَ قَالَ کَانَ يُصَلِّي الْهَجِيرَ الَّتِي تَدْعُونَهَا الْأُولَی حِينَ تَدْحَضُ الشَّمْسُ وَکَانَ يُصَلِّي الْعَصْرَ ثُمَّ يَرْجِعُ أَحَدُنَا إِلَی رَحْلِهِ فِي أَقْصَی الْمَدِينَةِ وَالشَّمْسُ حَيَّةٌ قَالَ وَنَسِيتُ مَا قَالَ فِي الْمَغْرِبِ قَالَ وَکَانَ يَسْتَحِبُّ أَنْ تُؤَخَّرَ صَلَاةُ الْعِشَائِ الَّتِي تَدْعُونَهَا الْعَتَمَةَ قَالَ وَکَانَ يَکْرَهُ النَّوْمَ قَبْلَهَا وَالْحَدِيثَ بَعْدَهَا وَکَانَ يَنْفَتِلُ مِنْ صَلَاةِ الْغَدَاةِ حِينَ يَعْرِفُ الرَّجُلُ جَلِيسَهُ وَکَانَ يَقْرَأُ بِالسِّتِّينَ إِلَی الْمِائَةِ
سنن نسائی · Hadith 534
Sayyar bin Salamah said: “My father and I entered upon Abu Barzah, and my father said to him: ‘How did the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وآلہ وسلم pray the prescribed prayers?’ He said: He used to pray Zuhr, which you call Al- Uula (the first) when the sun passed its zenith; he used to pray ‘Asr then one of us could go back to his home in the farthest part of Al-Madinah when the sun was still bright.” — He said: “I forgot what he said to me about Maghrib.” — “And he used to like to delay ‘Isha’, which you call Al ‘Atamah, and he did not like to sleep before it nor speak after it. And he used to finish the Al Ghadah (Fajr) prayer when a man could recognize his neighbor, and he used to recite between sixty and one hundred verses.” (Sahih)
Translated by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan · Reviewed by Islamic University of Madinah · Published March 2020