Abdullah bin Abl Awfa said: The prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم used to stand in the rak’ah of prayer so much so that no sound of steps heard.
Read More..Jabir bin Samurah reported: Umar said to Saad: people complain against you for everything, even for prayer. He replied: I prolong the first two rak’ahs of prayer and make the last two rak’ahs brief; I do not fall short of following the prayer offered by the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم. He said: I think so about you.
Read More..Abu Saeed Al Khudri said: We used to estimate how long the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم stood in the noon and the afternoon prayer, and we estimated that he stood in the first two rak’ahs of the noon prayer as long as it takes to recite thirty verses (of the Quran), such as A-L-M Tanzil al-Sajdah. And we estimated that he stood in the last two rak’ahs half the time he stood in the first two rak’ahs. We estimated that he stood in the first two rak’ahs of the afternoon prayer as long as he did in the last two at noon; and we estimated that he stood in the last two rak’ahs of the afternoon prayer half the time he did in first two.
Read More..Narrated Jabir ibn Samurah: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم used to recite in the noon and afternoon prayer: By the Heaven and the Morning Star (Surah 86) and By the Heaven, holding mansions of the stars (Surah 85) and similar surahs of equal length.
Read More..Jabir bin Samurah said: When the sun declined, the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم offered the noon prayer and recited surahs lie By the night when it covers over (92) and (recited similar surahs) in the afternoon prayer, and in the other prayers except the dawn prayer which he used to prolong.
Read More..Ibn Umr said: The prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم prostrated himself in the noon prayer; then he stood up and bowed, and we knew that he recited Tanzil al-sajdah (surah xxxii). Ibn ‘Isa said: No one narrated this tradition to Umayyah except Mu’tamir
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