Al-Bara' b. 'Azib reported: This verse was revealed (in this way): Guard the prayers and the 'Asr prayer. We recited it (in this very way) so long as Allah desired. Allah, then, abrogated it and it was revealed: Guard the prayers, and the middle prayer. A person who was sitting with Shaqiq (one of the narrators in the chain of transmitters) said: Now it implies the 'Asr prayer. Upon this al-Bara' said: I have already informed you how this (verse) was revealed and how Allah abrogated it, and Allah knows best.
Read More..Imam Muslim said: Ashja'i narrated it from Sufyan al-Thauri, who narrated it from al-Aswad b. Qais, who narrated it from 'Uqba, who narrated it from al-Bara' b. 'Azib who said: We recited with the Prophet ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) (the above-mentioned verse like this, i. e. instead of Salat al- Wusta, Salat al-'Asr) for a certain period. as It has been mentioned (in the above-quoted hadith).
Read More..Jabir b. 'Abdullah reported that Umar b. al-Khattab had been cursing the pagans of the Quraish an the day (of the Battle) of Khandaq (Ditch). (He came to the Holy Prophet) and said: Messenger of Allah, by God, I could not say. the 'Asr prayer till the sun set. Upon this the Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said: By Allah I, too, have not observed it. So we went to a valley. The Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) performed ablution and we too performed ablution, and then the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said the 'Asr prayer after the sun had set. and then said the evening prayer after it.
Read More..This hadith has been reported by Yahya b. Abd Kathir with the same chain of transmitters.
Read More..Abu Huraira reported: The Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said: Angels take turns among you by night and by day, and they all assemble at the dawn and afternoon prayers. Those (of the angels) who spend the night among you, then, ascend, and their Lord asks them, though He is the best informed about them: How did you leave My servants? -they say: We left them while they were praying and we came to them while they were praying.
Read More..Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as saying: Angels take turns among you by night and by day, and the rest of the hadith is the same.
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