The reciter: Muhammad ibn Muqatil narrated to us, saying: Abdullah informed us, saying: Awf informed us from Sayyar ibn Salama, saying:
My father and I visited Abu Barza al-Aslami and my father asked him how God’s Messenger used to observe the prescribed prayer. He replied, “He used to pray the noon prayer ( al-hajir ), which you call the first, when the sun was past the meridian; he would pray the afternoon prayer, after which one of us would return to his dwelling in the outskirts of Medina while the sun was still bright; (I forget what he said about the sunset prayer); he liked to postpone the night prayer, which you call al-atama , objecting to sleeping before it or talking after it and he would turn away from the morning prayer when a man could recognise his neighbour, and he would recite from sixty to a hundred verses during it.”
دخلت أنا وأبي على أبي برزة الأسلمي فقال له أبي : كيف كان رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يصلي المكتوبة ؟. فقال : كان يصلي الهجير التي تدعونها الأولى حين تدحض الشمس ، ويصلي العصر ثم يرجع أحدنا إلى رحله في أقصى المدينة والشمس حية ، ونسيت ما قال في المغرب ، وكان يستحب أن يؤخر العشاء التي تدعونها العتمة ، وكان يكره النوم قبلها والحديث بعدها وكان ينفتل من صلاة الغداة حين يعرف الرجل جليسه ، ويقرأ بالستين إلى المائة .
