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373. Hafṣah, the wife of the Prophet ﷺ, narrated: "I did not see Allāh's Messenger ﷺ praying voluntary prayers sitting until the year before he died. Then he would perform Ṣalāt for the voluntary prayers sitting, and he would recite a Sūrah and prolong it such that it would be longer than the longest of them." (Ṣaḥīḥ)
There are narrations on this topic from Umm Salamah and Anas bin Mālik.
Abū 'Eisā said: The Ḥadīth of Hafṣah is a Ḥasan Ṣaḥīḥ Ḥadīth.
It has been narrated that the Prophet ﷺ would perform some Ṣalāt at night while sitting, then when about thirty or forty Ayāt were remaining of his recitation, he would stand to recite, then bow, then do the same in the second Rak'ah.
It has also been reported that he would pray sitting, so that when he recited and he was standing, he would bow and prostrate while he was standing,[1] and if he recited while he was sitting, he would bow
and prostrate while he was sitting.
Aḥmad and Iṣhāq said that one is to act according to both Aḥādīth. It is as if they thought that both of the Aḥādīth were authentic and should be acted upon.
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Footnotes
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[1] Meaning he would bow and prostrate after standing. See Tuhfat Al-Ahwadhi.
Commentary
Sometimes the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ would recite while sitting and make Rukū' and Sujūd in the same position, and sometimes he ﷺ would recite while standing; but in his latter days he would recite while sitting and nearly at the end of recitation, he stood up and recited while standing equal to the time of reading thirty or forty Verses, then he would make Rukū' from the standing position and then go down to prostrate.
