Tag: Q n A, Bukhari

I offered prayer beside my father and approximated both my hands and placed them in between the
knees. My father told me not to do so and said, “We used to do the same but we were forbidden (by
the Prophet) to do it and were ordered to place the hands on the knees.”

A man came to Ibn Mas`ud and said, “I recited the Mufassal (Suras) at night in one rak`a.” Ibn
Mas`ud said, “This recitation is (too quick) like the recitation of poetry. I know the identical Suras
which the Prophet (ﷺ) used to recite in pairs.” Ibn Mas`ud then mentioned 20 Mufassal Suras including
two Suras from the family of (i.e. those verses which begin with) Ha, Meem [??] (which the Prophet (ﷺ)
used to recite) in each rak`a.

Hudhaifa saw a person who was not performing the bowing and prostration perfectly. He said to him,
“You have not prayed and if you should die you would die on a religion other than that of
Muhammad.”

My father said, “The Prophet (ﷺ) uses to recite Al-Fatiha followed by another Sura in the first two rak`at
of the prayer and used to recite only Al-Fatiha in the last two rak`at of the Zuhr prayer. Sometimes a
verse or so was audible and he used to prolong the first rak`a more than the second and used to do the
same in the `Asr and Fajr prayers.”

We said to Khabbab “Did Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) used to recite in Zuhr and `Asr prayers?” He replied in the
affirmative. We said, “How did you come to know about it?” He said, “By the movement of his
beard.”

My father said, “The Prophet (ﷺ) used to recite Al-Fatiha along with another Sura in the first two rak`at of
the Zuhr and `Asr prayers. A verse or so was audible at times and he used to prolong the first rak`a.”

(My mother) Umu-l-Fadl heard me reciting “Wal Mursalati `Urfan” (77) and said, “O my son! By
Allah, your recitation made me remember that it was the last Sura I heard from Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ). He
recited it in the Maghrib prayer. ”

Zaid bin Thabit said to me, “Why do you recite very short Suras in the Maghrib prayer while I heard
the Prophet (ﷺ) reciting the longer of the two long Suras?”

My father said, “I heard Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) reciting “at-Tur” (52) in the Maghrib prayer.”

I offered the `Isha’ prayer behind Abu Huraira and he recited, “Idha s-samaa’u n-shaqqat” (84) and
prostrated. On my inquiring, he said, “I prostrated behind Abul-Qasim (the Prophet) (when he recited
that Sura) and I will go on doing it till I meet him.”