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bukhari:764Abū ʿĀṣim > Ibn Jurayj > Ibn Abū Mulaykah > ʿUrwah b. al-Zubayr > Marwān b. al-Ḥakam

Zaid bin Thabit said to me, "Why do you recite very short Suras in the Maghrib prayer while I heard the Prophet ﷺ reciting the longer of the two long Suras?"  

البخاري:٧٦٤حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَاصِمٍ عَنِ ابْنِ جُرَيْجٍ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي مُلَيْكَةَ عَنْ عُرْوَةَ بْنِ الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ مَرْوَانَ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ قَالَ قَالَ لِي زَيْدُ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ مَا لَكَ تَقْرَأُ فِي الْمَغْرِبِ بِقِصَارٍ وَقَدْ

سَمِعْتُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ يَقْرَأُ بِطُولِ الطُّولَيَيْنِ  


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tabarani:4827Aḥmad b. Rishdīn al-Miṣrī > Yaḥyá b. Bukayr > Ibn Lahīʿah > Abū al-Aswad Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman > ʿUrwah > Zayd b. Thābit

[Machine] I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ reciting the longest two surahs during Maghrib prayer.  

الطبراني:٤٨٢٧حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ رِشْدِينَ الْمِصْرِيُّ ثنا يَحْيَى بْنُ بُكَيْرٍ ثنا ابْنُ لَهِيعَةَ حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو الْأَسْوَدِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ عُرْوَةَ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ زَيْدَ بْنَ ثَابِتٍ يَقُولُ

«سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقْرَأُ فِي الْمَغْرِبِ بِأَطْوَلِ الطَّوِيلتَيْنِ»