3. Ṣalāh (Ritual Prayer)

٣۔ كِتَابُ الصَّلَاةِ

3.214 [Machine] The lowest perfection

٣۔٢١٤ بَابُ أَدْنَى الْكَمَالِ

bayhaqi:2689Abū Bakr b. al-Ḥasan al-Qāḍī And ʾAbū Zakariyyā b. Abū Isḥāq > Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Aṣam > Baḥr b. Naṣr > Quriʾ > Ibn Wahb Akhbarak Ibn Abū Dhiʾb > Isḥāq b. Yazīd al-Hudhalī > ʿAwn b. ʿAbdullāh > ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd

the Prophet said: "When one of you bows then says while he is bowing: (Subhana Rabbiyal Azim) 'Glorious is my Lord the Magnificent' three times, then he has completed his bowing. And that is the least of it. And when he prostrates and says while prostrating: (Subhana Rabbiyal A'la) 'Glorious is my Lord the Most High' three times, then he has completed his prostrations, and that is the least of it.'" (Using translation from Tirmidhī 261)   

البيهقي:٢٦٨٩أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ الْقَاضِي وَأَبُو زَكَرِيَّا بْنُ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ قَالَا ثنا أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ الْأَصَمُّ ثنا بَحْرُ بْنُ نَصْرٍ قَالَ قُرِئَ عَلَى ابْنِ وَهْبٍ أَخْبَرَكَ ابْنُ أَبِي ذِئْبٍ عَنْ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ يَزِيدَ الْهُذَلِيِّ عَنْ عَوْنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ إِذَا رَكَعَ أَحَدُكُمْ فَقَالَ سُبْحَانَ رَبِّيَ الْعَظِيمِ ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ فَقَدْ تَمَّ رُكُوعُهُ وَذَلِكَ أَدْنَاهُ وَإِذَا سَجَدَ فَقَالَ سُبْحَانَ رَبِّيَ الْأَعْلَى ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ فَقَدْ تَمَّ سُجُودُهُ وَذَلِكَ أَدْنَاهُ  

bayhaqi:2690Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥāfiẓ > Abū Bakr b. Isḥāq > Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Hārūn > ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī > Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Ṭufāwī > Saʿīd al-Jurayrī > a man from Banī Tamīm Aḥsan al-Thanāʾ ʿAlayh from his father

[Machine] I prayed behind the Messenger of Allah ﷺ . I asked him about the proper length of his bowing and prostration. He said, "The duration is as long as a person says 'Subhan Allah wa bihamdihi' three times."  

البيهقي:٢٦٩٠أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ أنبأ أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ أنبأ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ هَارُونَ ثنا عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْمَدِينِيِّ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الطُّفَاوِيُّ ثنا سَعِيدٌ الْجُرَيْرِيُّ عَنْ رَجُلٍ مِنْ بَنِي تَمِيمٍ أَحْسَنَ الثَّنَاءَ عَلَيْهِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

صَلَّيْتُ خَلْفَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ فَسَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ قَدْرِ رُكُوعِهِ وَسُجُودِهِ فَقَالَ قَدْرُ مَا يَقُولُ الرَّجُلُ سُبْحَانَ اللهِ وَبِحَمْدِهِ ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ