The Book of Mosques and Places of Prayer-10b
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The reciter: Abu Kari’ narrated to us, saying: Suwaid ibn [name missing] narrated to us from Hammad ibn Salama from Sayyar ibn [name missing] with the consensus of Abu al-Minhāl, who said: I heard Abu Barzah al-Aslami say: Sahih Muslim 647c.
The Shaykh : “When some of us could recognize the faces of others” means when his companion was [present], as in the first wording. Here it says “from one hundred to sixty,” making the limit the smaller number, which is contrary to the customary usage in the language. The customary usage in the language is that the limit is up to the larger number. This hadith came with this wording: “He would recite from sixty to one hundred” according to the original text.
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : No, no, it is not about memorization, but in the language, it is expressed using this and that.
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) delayed the night prayer till a third of the night had passed and he did not approve of sleeping before it, and talking after it, and he used to recite in the morning prayer from one hundred to sixty verses (and completed the prayer at such hours) when we recognised the faces of one another.
كان رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يؤخر العشاء إلى ثلث الليل ويكره النوم قبلها والحديث بعدها وكان يقرأ في صلاة الفجر من المائة إلى الستين وكان ينصرف حين يعرف بعضنا وجه بعضThe Shaykh : “When some of us could recognize the faces of others” means when his companion was [present], as in the first wording. Here it says “from one hundred to sixty,” making the limit the smaller number, which is contrary to the customary usage in the language. The customary usage in the language is that the limit is up to the larger number. This hadith came with this wording: “He would recite from sixty to one hundred” according to the original text.
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : No, no, it is not about memorization, but in the language, it is expressed using this and that.