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ahmad:21633Sulaymān b. Dāwud > ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Abū al-Zinād > Hishām b. ʿUrwah from his father > Marwān b. al-Ḥakam

[Machine] Zaid ibn Thabit, did I not see you tonight, lessening the recitation in the two prostrations of Maghrib prayer? By the One in whose hand is my soul, if the Messenger of Allah ﷺ were to recite in them with the length of the longest of the two lengths,  

أحمد:٢١٦٣٣حَدَّثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ دَاوُدَ أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ مَرْوَانَ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ قَالَ قَالَ

لِي زَيْدُ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ أَلَمْ أَرَكَ اللَّيْلَةَ خَفَّفْتَ الْقِرَاءَةَ فِي سَجْدَتَيِ الْمَغْرِبِ؟ وَالَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ إِنْ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ لَيَقْرَأُ فِيهِمَا بِطُولَى الطُّولَيَيْنِ