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496. Shu'bah said: "Sayyâr bin Salâmah, narrated to us, he said: 'I heard my father ask Abû Barzah about the prayer of the Messenger of Allâh ﷺ.' I said: 'Did you really hear him?' He said: 'As I can hear you now.' He said: 'I heard my father ask about the prayer of the Messenger of Allâh ﷺ.' He said: 'He would not mind if he delayed it – meaning 'Ishâ' until midnight, and he did not like to sleep before it or speak after it.'" Shu'bah said: "Then I met him later on and asked him. He said: 'He used to pray Zuhr when the sun had passed its zenith, and (he would pray) 'Asr' and a man could walk to the farthest point in Al-Madînah and the sun would still be clear and hot. And Maghrib, I do not know the time he mentioned.' After that I met him and asked him, and he said: 'He used to pray Fajr then after the prayer a man could regarding it, sitting next to him, look at the face of someone he knew and he could recognize it.' He said: 'And he used to recite in it between sixty and one hundred (verses).'" (Ṣaḥīḥ)
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1. As for the midday prayer (Zuhr), the first moment of the time prescribed for its performance is agreed upon: it is when the sun has begun to decline from the meridian.
2. Allâh's Messenger ﷺ generally offered the late evening prayer ('Ishâ') when one-third of the night had elapsed. Sometimes, however, he would delay it until the middle of the night.
