Zaid bin Thabit said: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم used to offer the Zuhr prayer in midday heat; and no prayer was harder on the Companions of the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم that this one. Hence the revelation came down: Be guardians of your prayers, and of the midmost prayer (2: 238). He (the narrator) said: There are two prayers before it and two prayers after it.
Read More..Abu Hurairah reported the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم as saying: If anyone says a rak'ah of the Asr prayer before sunset, he has observed (the Asr prayer), and if anyone performs a rak'ah of the Fajr prayer, he has observed (the Fajr prayer).
Read More..Ala bin Abdur-Rahman said: We came upon Anas bin Malik after the Zuhr prayer. He stood for saying the Asr prayer. When he became free from praying, we mentioned to him about observing prayer in its early period or he himself mentioned it. He said: I heard the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم say: This is how hypocrites pray, this is how hypocrites pray, this is how hypocrites pray: He sits (watching the sun), and when it becomes yellow and is between the horns of the devil, or is on the horns of the devil, he rises and prays for rak'ahs quickly, remembering Allah only seldom during them.
Read More..Ibn Umar reported the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم as saying: Anyone who loses his Asr prayer is like a person whose family has perished and whose property has been plundered. Abu Dawud said: Abdullah bin Umar narrated the word utira (instead of wutira, meaning perished). The dispute on this point goes back to Ayyub. Al-Zuhri reported from Salim on the authority of this father from the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم the word 'wutira'.
Read More..Al-Awzai said: Delaying the Asr prayer means that the sunshine becomes yellow on the earth.
Read More..Anas bin Malik said: We used to offer the Maghrib prayer with the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم and then shoot arrows, one of us could see the place where arrow would fall.
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