Um al-fadl daughter of al-Harith said: I heard IbnAbbas reciting wa’l-mursalat urfan (surah lxxxvii). She said; sonny you have reminded me of this surah by your recitation. Thie is the last surah which I heard the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم reciting in the sunset prayer.
Read More..Jubair bin Mutim said: I heard the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم reciting al-Tur (surah lii) in the sunset prayer.
Read More..Marwan bin a-hakkam said: Zaid bin Thabit asked me: Why do you recite short surahs in the sunset prayer? I saw the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم reciting two long surahs at the sunset prayers. I asked him: which are those two long surahs? He replied: Al-A’raf (surah vii) and al-an’am (surah vi). I ( the narrator Ibn Juraij) asked Ibn Mulaikah (about these surahs): He said on his own accord: Al-ma’idah (surah v. ) and al-A’raf (furah vii. )
Read More..HIsham bin Urwah said that his father (‘Umrah) used to recite the surahs as you recite like Wa’l-Adiyat (surah c). Abu Dawud said: This indicates that those (traditions indicating long surahs) are abrogated, and this is more sound tradition.
Read More..Amr bin Shuaib, on his father’s authority, quoted his grandfather as saying: There is no short or long surah in al-Mufassal which I have not heard the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم reciting when he led the people in the prescribed prayer.
Read More..Abu Uthman al-Nahdl said that he offered the sunset prayer behind Ibn Masud, when he recited “Say: He is Allah, the One” (Surah 112).
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