Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 265-272
Chapter 37: The virtue of the Subh and the `Asr prayers, and of
maintaining them.
Abu Huraira reported:
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)
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. (Sahih
Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 265)
Abu Huraira reported
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:
Angels take turns among you
by night and by day, and the rest of the hadith is the same. (Sahih
Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 266)
Jarir b. Abdullah is
reported to have said:
We were sitting with the
Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) that he looked at the full moon and observed: You shall
see your Lord as you are seeing this moon, and you will not be harmed by seeing
Him. So if you can, do not let -yourselves be overpowered in case of prayer
observed before the rising of the sun and its setting, i. e. the 'Asr prayer
and the morning prayer. Jarir then recited it:" Celebrate the praise of
thy Lord before the rising of the sun and before Its setting" (xx. 130). (Sahih
Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 267)
So
bear patiently (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) what they say, and glorify the
praises of your Lord before the rising of the sun, and before its setting, and
during some hours of the night, and at the ends of the day (an indication for
the five compulsory congregational prayers), that you may become pleased (with
the reward which Allâh shall give you). (Quran 20:130)
Waki' reported (this
hadith) with the same chain of transmitters (that the Holy Prophet) said:
You will be soon presented
before your Lord, and you will see Him as you are seeing this moon, and then
recited (the above-mentioned verse). But (in this hadith) no mention is made of
Jarir. (Sahih
Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 268)
'Umara b. Ruwaiba is
reported to have said on the authority of his father:
I heard the Messenger of
Allah (ﷺ) saying: He who observes prayer before the rising of the sun and its setting,
i.e. the dawn prayer and the afternoon prayer, would not enter the (Hell) fire.
A person belonging to Basra said to him: Did you yourself hear it from the
Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)? He said: Yes. The person (from Basra) said: I bear
witness that I heard it from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ); my ears heard it and
my heart retained it. (Sahih
Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 269)
Umara b. Ruwaiba reported
on the authority of his father that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:
He who said prayer before
the rising of the sun and its setting would not enter the fire (of Hell), and
there was a man from Basra (sitting) beside him who said: Did you hear it from
the Messenger of Allah (way peace be upon him)? He said: Yes, I bear witness to
it. The man from Basra said: I bear witness that I did hear from the Messenger
of Allah (ﷺ) saying it from the place that you heard from him. (Sahih
Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 270)
Abu Bakr reported on the
authority of his father that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:
He who observed two prayers
at two cool (hours) would enter Paradise. (Sahih
Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 271)
This hadith has
been narrated by the same chain of transmitters by Hammam, and said about Abu
Bakr that he was Ibn Abu Musa. (Sahih
Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 272)
Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 265-272
Sahih Muslim
Book 5 – Hadith 256-264 - SOLTLANE