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Al-Bara’ b. ‘Azib reported: I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) reciting in the night prayer:” By the Fig and the Olive,” and I have never heard anyone with a sweeter voice than he.

Anas reported: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) would listen to the crying of a lad in the company of his mother, in prayer, and he would recite a short surah or a small surah.

Jabir reported that Mu’adh b. Jabal used to pray with the Apostle (ﷺ), then came and led his people in prayer. One night he said the night prayer with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). He then came to his people and led them in prayer beginning with Surat al-Baqara. A man turned aside, pronounced the taslim (salutation for concluding the prayer), then prayed alone and departed. The people said to him: Have you become a hypocrite, so and so? He said: I swear by Allah that I have not, but I will certainly go to Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) and will inform (him) about this. He then came to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and said: Messenger of Allah, we look after camels used for watering and work by day. Mu’adh said the night prayer with you. He then came and began with Surat al-Baqara. Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) then turned to Mu’adh and said: Are you there to (put the people) to trial? Recite such and recite such (and such a surah). It is transmitted on the authority of Jabir, as told by Sufyan, that he (the Holy Prophet) had said: “By the sun and its morning brightness” (Surah xci), “By brightness” (Surah xciii), “By the night when it spreads” (Surah xcii), and “Glorify the name of thy most high Lord” (Surah lxxxii).

Anas b. Malik reported the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) having said: When I begin the prayer I Intend to make it long, but I hear a boy cry. ing; I then shorten it because of his mother’s feelings.

Jabir reported: ‘Mu’adh b. Jabal al-Ansari led his companions in the night prayer and prolonged it for them. A person amongst us said prayer (after having separated himself from the congregation). Mu’adh was informed of this, and he remarked that he was a hypocrite. When it (the remark) was conveyed to the man, he went to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and informed him of what Mu’adh had said. Upon this the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said to him: Mu’adh, do you want to become a person putting (people) to trial? When you lead people in prayer, recite:” By the Sun and its morning brightness” (Surat ash-Shams),” Glorify the name of thy most high Lord” (Surat al-A`la) and” Read in the name of Lord” (Surat al-`Alaq), and” By the night when it spreads” (Surat al-Lail).

Al-Bara’ b. ‘Azib reported: I noticed the prayer of Muhammad (ﷺ) and saw his Qiyam (standing), his bowing, and then going back to the standing posture after bowing, his prostration, his sitting between the two prostrations, and his prostration and sitting between salutation and going away, all these were nearly equal to one another.

Ziyad b. ‘Ilaqa reported it on the authority of his uncle that he said the morning prayer with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and he recited in the first rak’ah: “And the tall palm trees having flower spikes piled one above another (l. 10) or perhaps Surah Qaf.”

Jabir b. Samura reported: The Apostle of Allah (ﷺ) used to recite in the morning prayer” Qaf. By the Glorious Quran.” and his prayer afterward shortened.

Simak asked Jabir b. Samura about the prayer of the Apostle (ﷺ). He said: He (the Holy Prophet) shortened the prayer and he did not pray like these people then, and he informed me that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to recite” Qaf. By the (Glorious) Qur’an,” and a passage of similar length.

Jabir b. Samura reported: The Apostle of Allah (ﷺ) used to recite in the noon prayer:” By the night when it envelopes” (xcii.), and in the afternoon like this, but he prolonged the morning prayer as compared to that (noon and afternoon prayers).