Abu Hurairah reported the prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم as saying: when one of you leads the people in prayer, he should be brief, for among them are the sick, the aged and the needy.
Read More..Ammar bin Yasir said: I heard the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم say: A man returns after saying his prayer while a tenth part of his prayer, or a ninth part, or an eight part, or a seventh part, or a sixth part, or a fifth part, or a third part, or half of it, is recorded for him.
Read More..Abu Hurairah said: In every prayer there is a recitation. We make you listen what the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم made us listen, and we keep hidden from you what he kept hidden from us.
Read More..Abu Qatadah said: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم used to lead us in prayer and recite in the first two rak’ahs of the noon prayers Fatihat al-kitab and two surahs, and he would sometimes recite loud enough for us to hear the verse. He would prolong the first rak’ah of the noon prayer and shorten the second; and he did so in the morning prayer. Abu Dawud said: Musaddad did not mention the words fatihat al-kitab and surah.
Read More..The above mentioned tradition as been reported by Abu Qatadah through a different chain of narrators. This version adds: He would recite Fatihat al-kitab in the last two surahs. Hammam added: He would prolong the first rak’ah but would not prolong the second so much; and he did so similarly in the afternoon prayer, and so in the morning prayer.
Read More..Abu Qatadah said: We thought that by this (prolonging the first rak’ah). He (the prophet) meant that the people might join the first rak’ah
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