[Machine] Some of his family was in the mosque and they found him bowing in prayer, so they waited for him to finish and counted his bows. One of them counted that he bowed three hundred times and the other counted four hundred times before he finished. They said, "O Abu Muslim, we were sitting behind you waiting for you." He said, "If I had known where you were, I would have come to you. It was not for you to count my prayers against me, and I swear to you that the abundance of prostrations is better for me on the Day of Judgment."  

بَعْضُ أَهْلِهِ هُوَ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ فَوَجَدَاهُ يَرْكَعُ فَانْتَظَرَا انْصِرَافَهُ وَأَحْصَيَا رُكُوعَهُ فَأَحْصَى أَحَدُهُمَا أَنَّهُ رَكَعَ ثَلَاثَمِائَةٍ وَالْآخَرُ أَرْبَعَمِائَةٍ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَنْصَرِفَ فَقَالَا يَا أَبَا مُسْلِمٍ كُنَّا قَاعِدَيْنِ خَلْفَكَ نَنْتَظِرُكَ [319] فَقَالَ أَمَا إِنِّي لَوْ عَلِمْتُ مَكَانَكُمَا لَانْصَرَفْتُ إِلَيْكُمَا مَا كَانَ لَكُمَا أَنْ تُحْصِيَا عَلَيَّ صَلَاتِي وَأُقْسِمُ لَكُمَا أَنَّ كَثْرَةَ السُّجُودِ خَيْرٌ لِيَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ