Narrated Al-Bara': The time taken by the Prophet in prostrations, bowing, and the sitting interval between the two prostrations was about the same.
Read More..Narrated Thabit: Anas said, I will leave no stone unturned in making you offer the prayer as I have seen the Prophet making us offer it. Anas used to do a thing which I have not seen you doing. He used to stand after the bowing for such a long time that one would think that he had forgotten (the prostrations) and he used to sit in-between the prostrations so long that one would think that he had forgotten the second prostration.
Read More..Narrated Anas bin Malik: The Prophet said, Be straight in the prostrations and none of you should put his forearms on the ground (in the prostration) like a dog.
Read More..Narrated Malik bin Huwairith Al-Laithi: I saw the Prophet praying and in the odd rak`at, he used to sit for a moment before getting up.
Read More..Narrated Aiyub: Abu Qilaba said, Malik bin Huwairith came to us and led us in the prayer in this mosque of ours and said, 'I lead you in prayer but I do not want to offer the prayer but just to show you how Allah's Apostle performed his prayers. I asked Abu Qilaba, How was the prayer of Malik bin Huwairith? He replied, Like the prayer of this Sheikh of ours-- i.e. `Amr bin Salima. That Sheikh used to pronounce the Takbir perfectly and when he raised his head from the second prostration he would sit for a while and then support himself on the ground and get up.
Read More..Narrated Sa`id bin Al-Harith: Abu Sa`id led us in the prayer and said the Takbir aloud on arising from the prostration, and on prostrating, on rising again, and on getting up from the second rak`a. Abu Sa`id said, I saw the Prophet doing the same.
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