Sahih Muslim 733a

Translation

Never did I see the Messenger of Allah ﷺ observing supererogatory prayer sitting till one year before his death when he would observe Nafl prayer in a sitting position, and he would recite the Surah (of the Qur'an) in such a slow-measured tone (that duration of its recital) became more lengthy than the one longer than this.

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Other narrations of this report

Sunan an-Nasa'i 1649Musnad Ahmad 25940Sahih Ibn Hibban 2632Sahih Ibn Hibban 2633al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 1360Musnad Abi Ya'la 4723

Narrators

1. 1
   Ḥafṣah bt. ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb

   Mother of the Believers (Umm al-Muʾminīn)d. 41 AH, also said: 45 AH, also said: 50 AH, also said: 27, which is an error
   حَفْصَةُ بِنْتُ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِأم المؤمنين
   عن
2. 2
   al-Muṭṭalib b. Abī Wadāʿah al-Jumaḥī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)
   الْمُطَّلِبِ بْنِ أَبِي وَدَاعَةَ السَّهْمِيِّصحابي
   عن
3. 3
   al-Sāʾib b. Yazīd al-Kindī

   Young Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 82 AH. Also said: after the nineties; it is said: 91 AH; also said: 94 AH; Ibn Abī Dāwūd said: he was the last of the Companions to die in Medina, Yaʿqūb b. Sufyān erred and listed him among those killed on the day of al-Ḥarrah, al-Wāqidī said: 91 AH; others said: 86 AH. Also said: 88 AH. Abū Nuʿaym said: 82 AH, al-Bukhārī mentioned him in the section 90 AH to 100 AH, in «Ibn al-Ḥadhdhāʾ's book»: 86 AH, Yaḥyā b. Bukayr said: 97 AH, in «Tārīkh Ibn Abī Khaythamah al-Awsaṭ»: 80 AH
   السَّائِبِ بْنِ يَزِيدَصحابي صغير
   عن
4. 4
   al-Zuhrī

   The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AH
   ابْنِ شِهَابٍالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبته
   عن
5. 5
   Mālik b. Anas

   The jurist (al-faqīh), the Imam of the Abode of Migration (Imām Dār al-Hijrah), the head of the proficient masters, and the foremost among the meticulous.d. 178 AH, or 179 AH
   مَالِكٍالفقيه ، إمام دار الهجرة ، رأس المتقنين ، وكبير المتثبتين
   قرأت على
6. 6
   Yaḥyā b. Yaḥyā

   trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), an imam (imām).d. 226 AH, or 224 AH, or 225 AH; both of the latter two are mistaken.
   يَحْيَى بْنُ يَحْيَىثقة ثبت إمام .
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Muslim

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam, an author of compilations, knowledgeable in jurisprudence (fiqh)d. Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb said: 261 AH, Makkī b. ʿAbdān said: 259 AH
   مُسْلِمٌثقة حافظ ، إمام ، مصنف ، عالم بالفقه

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