Explanation of the Book of Friday Prayer and the Two Festivals-08b
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The reciter: Abu al-Yaman narrated to us, Shu'ayb informed us from al-Zuhri, 'Urwah narrated to me that 'A'ishah informed him: Sahih al-Bukhari 994.
The Shaykh : "The length of time it takes one of you to recite fifty verses." You get these kinds of estimates: fifty verses, thirty verses, ten verses. It is well known that verses differ in length and that reciters also differ in their speed and recitation style. So on what basis is this understood? It is understood as the middle, because we cannot now estimate it by the maximum or the minimum, so we estimate it by the middle.
And so, if he prayed two rak'ahs, how many verses would the length of his prostration in them be? Two hundred verses for this prostration alone. Make the bowing the same as the prostration, that makes three hundred for the bowing and prostration alone. The recitation is more, because Hudhayfah said that he recited al-Baqarah, al-Imran, and al-Nisa. May Allah send blessings and peace upon him. Yes.
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) used to pray eleven rak`at at night and that was his night prayer and each of his prostrations lasted for a period enough for one of you to recite fifty verses before Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) raised his head. He also used to pray two rak`at (Sunnah) before the (compulsory) Fajr prayer and then lie down on his right side till the Mu'adh-dhin came to him for the prayer.
أن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم كان يصلي إحدى عشرة ركعةً كانت تلك صلاته تعني بالليل فيسجد السجدة من ذلك قدر ما يقرأ أحدكم خمسين آيةً قبل أن يرفع رأسه، ويركع ركعتين قبل صلاة الفجر، ثم يضطجع على شقه الأيمن حتى يأتيه المؤذن للصلاةThe Shaykh : "The length of time it takes one of you to recite fifty verses." You get these kinds of estimates: fifty verses, thirty verses, ten verses. It is well known that verses differ in length and that reciters also differ in their speed and recitation style. So on what basis is this understood? It is understood as the middle, because we cannot now estimate it by the maximum or the minimum, so we estimate it by the middle.
And so, if he prayed two rak'ahs, how many verses would the length of his prostration in them be? Two hundred verses for this prostration alone. Make the bowing the same as the prostration, that makes three hundred for the bowing and prostration alone. The recitation is more, because Hudhayfah said that he recited al-Baqarah, al-Imran, and al-Nisa. May Allah send blessings and peace upon him. Yes.