Narrated Al-Bara: The Prophet was on a journey and recited in one of the first two rak`at of the `Isha' prayer Wa t-teeni wa z-zaitun. (95)
Read More..Narrated Abu Rafi`: Once I prayed the `Isha' prayer with Abu Huraira and he recited, Idha s-samaa'u n-shaqqat (84) and prostrated. I said, What is that? He said, I prostrated behind Abul-Qasim, (the Prophet) (when he recited that Sura) and I will go on doing it till I meet him.
Read More..Narrated Al-Bara: I heard the Prophet reciting wa t-teeni wa z-zaitun (95) in the `Isha' prayer, and I never heard a sweeter voice or a better way of recitation than that of the Prophet.
Read More..Narrated Jabir bin Samura: `Umar said to Sa`d, The people complained against you in everything, even in prayer. Sa`d replied, Really I used to prolong the first two rak`at and shorten the last two and I will never shorten the prayer in which I follow Allah's Apostle. `Umar said, You are telling the truth and that is what I think a tout you.
Read More..Narrated Saiyar bin Salama: My father and I went to Abu Barza-al-Aslami to ask him about the stated times for the prayers. He replied, The Prophet used to offer the Zuhr prayer when the sun just declined from its highest position at noon; the `Asr at a time when if a man went to the farthest place in Medina (after praying) he would find the sun still hot (bright). (The sub narrator said: I have forgotten what Abu Barza said about the Maghrib prayer). The Prophet never found any harm in delaying the `Isha' prayer to the first third of the night and he never liked to sleep before it and to talk after it. He used to offer the morning prayer at a time when after finishing it one could recognize the person sitting beside him and used to recite between 60 to 100 verses in one or both the rak`at.
Read More..Narrated Abu Huraira: The Qur'an is recited in every prayer and in those prayers in which Allah's Apostle recited aloud for us, we recite aloud in the same prayers for you; and the prayers in which the Prophet recited quietly, we recite quietly. If you recite Al-Fatiha only it is sufficient but if you recite something else in addition, it is better.
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