Musnad Ahmad 19796

Translation

✧ Go to Abu Barzah al-Aslami. So I went with him until we entered upon him in his house while he was sitting in the shade of an upper room made of reeds. We sat with him on a very hot day. My father asked him: Tell me how the Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to pray the prescribed prayers. He said: He used to pray the midday prayer, which you call the first, when the sun began to decline. He used to pray the afternoon prayer, then one of us would return to his riding place at the far end of Madinah while the sun was still bright. He said: And I forgot what he said about the sunset prayer. He said: He liked to delay the night prayer, which you call al-'atamah. He said: And he disliked sleeping before it and conversing after it. He said: And he used to finish the dawn prayer when one of us could recognize his sitting companion. And he used to recite between sixty and one hundred verses.

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• Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī

  حديث أبي برزة أصح من حديث أوس بن حذيفة قال كنت في وفد ثقيف فكان النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم يأتينا كل ليلة بعد العشاء فيحدثنا قائما على رجليه حتى يتراوح بين رجليه وأكثر ما يحدثنا ما لقي من قومه من قريش

  machine translationThe ḥadīth of Abū Barzah is more authentic (aṣaḥḥ) than the ḥadīth of Aws b. Ḥudhayfah, who said: "I was among the delegation of Thaqīf, and the Prophet ﷺ would come to us every night after the ʿishāʾ prayer and speak to us standing on his feet, until he shifted his weight from one foot to the other. Most of what he told us was what he had met with from his people, the Quraysh." Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 20045

Same hadith, other wordings

• Bulughul Maram 154{ كَانَ رَسُولُ اَللَّهِ - صلى الله عليه وسلم -يُصَلِّيَ اَلْعَصْرَ, ثُمَّ يَرْجِعُ أَحَدُنَا إِلَى رَحْلِهِ فِي أَقْصَى اَلْمَدِينَةِ وَالشَّمْسُ حَيَّةٌ, وَكَانَ يَسْتَحِبُّ أَنْ يُؤَخِّرَ مِنْ اَلْعِشَاءِ, وَكَانَ يَكْرَهُ اَلنَّوْمَ قَب

Narrators

1. 1
   Naḍlah b. ʿUbayd b. ʿĀbid al-Aslamī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 64 AH, or: 65 AH, or after it
   نَضْلَةُ بْنُ عُبَيْدِ بْنِ عَابِدٍ الْأَسْلَمِيُّصحابي
   صريح في السماع
2. 2
   Abū al-Minhāl

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 129 AH
   أَبِي الْمِنْهَالِثقة
   عن
3. 3
   ʿAwf b. Abī Jamīlah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), accused of Qadarism and Shīʿismd. 146 AH, or 147 AH
   عَوْفٌثقة رمي بالقدر وبالتشيع
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar

   Trustworthy (thiqah), his book was sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb), except that he had some heedlessness (ghaflah)d. 192 AH or 193 AH or 194 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍثقة صحيح الكتاب إلا أن فيه غفلة
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
   أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

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