Hadith #165

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English Translation

Saiyar bin Salama (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that my father and I went to Abu Barza-al-Aslami to ask him about the stated times for the prayers. He replied, "the Prophet ﷺ used to offer the Zuhr prayer when the sun just declined from its highest position at noon; the `Asr at a time when if a man went to the farthest place in Medina (after praying) he would find the sun still hot (bright). (The sub narrator said: I have forgotten what Abu Barza said about the Maghrib prayer). the Prophet ﷺ never found any harm in delaying the `Isha' prayer to the first third of the night and he never liked to sleep before it and to talk after it. He used to offer the morning prayer at a time when after finishing it one could recognize the person sitting beside him and used to recite between 60 to 100 verses in one or both the rak`at