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ahmad:11999Muḥammad b. Fuḍayl > Muḥammad b. Isḥāq > al-ʿAlāʾ b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman > Dakhalnā > Anas b. Mālik

[Machine] I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, "That is the prayer of the hypocrite - he leaves the prayer until it is in the horns of Satan, or between the horns of Satan, and he prays in it, not mentioning Allah in it except a little."  

أحمد:١١٩٩٩حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ فُضَيْلٍ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ الْعَلَاءِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ قَالَ دَخَلْنَا عَلَى أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ أَنَا وَرَجُلٌ مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ حِينَ صَلَّيْنَا الظُّهْرَ فَدَعَا الْجَارِيَةَ بِوَضُوءٍ فَقُلْنَا لَهُ أَيُّ صَلَاةٍ تُصَلِّي؟ قَالَ الْعَصْرَ قَالَ قُلْنَا إِنَّمَا صَلَّيْنَا الظُّهْرَ الْآنَ فَقَالَ

سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ تِلْكَ صَلَاةُ الْمُنَافِقِ يَتْرُكُ الصَّلَاةَ حَتَّى إِذَاكَانَتْ فِي قَرْنَيِ الشَّيْطَانِ أَوْ بَيْنَ قَرْنَيْ الشَّيْطَانِ صَلَّى لَا يَذْكُرُ اللهَ فِيهَا إِلَّا قَلِيلًا  


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malik:15-48Mālik > al-ʿAlāʾ b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman > Dakhalnā > Anas b. Mālik Baʿd al-Ẓuhr Faqām Yuṣallī al-ʿAṣr Falammā Faragh Min Ṣalātih Dhakarnā Taʿjīl al-Ṣalāh Aw Dhakarahā

Yahya related to me from Malik that al-Ala ibn Abd ar-Rahman said, "We visited Anas ibn Malik after dhuhr and he stood up and prayed asr. When he had finished his prayer, we mentioned doing prayers early in their time, or he mentioned it, and he said that he had heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, the prayer of the hypocrites, the prayer of the hypocrites, the prayer of the hypocrites is that one of them sits until the sun becomes yellow and is between the horns of Shaytan, or on the horn of Shaytan, and then gets up and rattles off four rakas, hardly remembering Allah in them at all.' "  

مالك:١٥-٤٨وَحَدَّثَنِي عَنْ مَالِكٍ عَنِ الْعَلاَءِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ قَالَ دَخَلْنَا عَلَى أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ بَعْدَ الظُّهْرِ فَقَامَ يُصَلِّي الْعَصْرَ فَلَمَّا فَرَغَ مِنْ صَلاَتِهِ ذَكَرْنَا تَعْجِيلَ الصَّلاَةِ أَوْ ذَكَرَهَا

فَقَالَ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ تِلْكَ صَلاَةُ الْمُنَافِقِينَ تِلْكَ صَلاَةُ الْمُنَافِقِينَ تِلْكَ صَلاَةُ الْمُنَافِقِينَ يَجْلِسُ أَحَدُهُمْ حَتَّى إِذَا اصْفَرَّتِ الشَّمْسُ وَكَانَتْ بَيْنَ قَرْنَىِ الشَّيْطَانِ أَوْ عَلَى قَرْنِ الشَّيْطَانِ قَامَ فَنَقَرَ أَرْبَعًا لاَ يَذْكُرُ اللَّهَ فِيهَا إِلاَّ قَلِيلاً