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828. It was narrated that Abu Sa'eed Al-Khudri said: "Thirty of the Companions of the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ who had been at Badr came together and said: 'Come, let us estimate the length of the recitation of the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ for the prayer in which Qur'an is not recited out aloud.' No two men among them disagreed, and they estimated the length of his recitation in the first Rak'ah of the Zuhr to be thirty Verses and in the second Rak'ah to be half of that. They estimated his recitation in 'Asr' to be half of the last two Rak'ah of Zuhr.'" (Da'if)
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The Hadith as such is 'Weak', yet the rule mentioned in it is correct. It is reported from Abu Sa'eed Al-Khudri ؓ that "the Prophet ﷺ used to recite about thirty Verses in every Rak'ah of the first two Rak'ah of the Zuhr prayer, and about fifteen Verses (or: half of the first Rak'ah) in the last two (Rak'ah); and about fifteen Verses in every Rak'ah of the 'Asr prayer in the first two Rak'ah, and half of the first ones in the last two Rak'ah." (Sahih Muslim:157).
