Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 290-297
Chapter 40: It is recommended to pray Subh early, at the beginning
of its time, when it is still dark; and the length of recitation therein.
'A'isha reported:
The believing women used to
pray the morning prayer with the Messenger of Allah and then return wrapped in
their mantles. No one could recognise them. (Sahih
Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 290)
'A'isha, the wife of the
Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), reported:
The believing women
observed the morning prayer with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) wrapped in their
mantles. They then went back to their houses and were unrecognisable, because
of the Messenger of Allah's (ﷺ) praying in the darkness before dawn. (Sahih
Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 291)
'A'isha reported:
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)
used to observe the morning prayer, and the women would go back wrapped in
their mantles being unrecognisable because of the darkness before dawn. (Ishaq
b. Musa) al-Ansari (one of the transmitters in this chain of narration)
narrated" wrapped" (only) in his narration. (No mention was made of
mantles.) (Sahih
Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 292)
Muhammad b. 'Amr b.
al-Hasan b. 'All reported:
When Hajjaj came to Medina
we asked Jabir b. Abdullah (about the timings of prayer as observed by the Holy
Prophet). He said: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to pray afternoon prayer in
the midday heat; the afternoon prayer when the sun was bright; the evening
prayer when the sun had completely set; and as for the night prayer, he
sometimes delayed and sometimes (observed it) at earlier hours. When he found
them (his Companions) assembled (at earlier hours) he (prayed) early. and when
he saw them coming late, he delayed the (prayer). and the morning prayer the
Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) observed in the darkness before dawn. (Sahih
Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 293)
Muhammad b. 'Amr al-Hasan
b. 'All reported:
Hajjaj used to delay the
prayers, and so we asked Jabir b. 'Abdullah, and the rest of the hadith is the
same. (Sahih
Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 294)
Sayyar b. Salama reported:
I heard my father asking
Abu Barza (al- Aslami) about the prayer of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) I (Shu'ba, one
of the narrators) said: Did you hear it (from Abu Barza)? He said: I feel as if
I am bearing you at this very time. He said: I heard my father asking about the
prayer of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and he (Abu Barza) making this reply: He
(the Holy Prophet) did not mind delaying-some (prayer) i. e. 'Isya' prayer,
even up to the midnight and did not like sleeping before observing it, and
talking after it. Shu'ba said: I met him subsequently and asked him (about the
prayers of the Holy Prophet) and he said: He observed the noon prayer when the
sun was past the meridian, he would pray the afternoon prayer, after which a
person would go to the outskirts of Medina and the sun was still bright; (I
forgot what he said about the evening prayer) ; I then met him on a subsequent
occasion and asked him (about the prayers of the Holy Prophet; and he said: He
would observe the morning prayer (at such a time) so that a man would go back
and would recognise his neighbour by casting a glance at his face, and he would
recite from sixty to one hundred verses in it. (Sahih
Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 295)
Sayyar b. Salama reported:
I heard Abu Barza saying
that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) did not mind some delay in the 'Isha' prayer
even up to midnight and he did not like sleeping before (observing it) and
talking after it. Shu'ba said: I again met him (Sayyar b. Salama) for the
second time and he said: Even up to the third (part) of the night. (Sahih
Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 296)
Abu Barza b. Aslami is
reported to have said:
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)
delayed the night prayer till a third of the night had passed and he did not approve
of sleeping before it, and talking after it, and he used to recite in the
morning prayer from one hundred to sixty verses (and completed the prayer at
such hours) when we recognised the faces of one another. (Sahih
Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 297)
Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 290-297
Sahih Muslim
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