4. The Book of Prayers
٤۔ كتاب الصلاة
Abu Barza said, "The Prophet ﷺ used to offer the Fajr (prayer) when one could recognize the person sitting by him (after the prayer) and he used to recite between 60 to 100 Ayat (verses) of the Qur'an. He used to offer the Zuhr prayer as soon as the sun declined (at noon) and the ʿAsr at a time when a man might go and return from the farthest place in Medina and find the sun still hot. (The sub-narrator forgot what was said about the Maghrib). He did not mind delaying the ʿIsha prayer to one third of the night or the middle of the night."
عَنْ أَبِي بَرْزَةَ كَانَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ يُصَلِّي الصُّبْحَ وَأَحَدُنَا يَعْرِفُ جَلِيسَهُ وَيَقْرَأُ فِيهَا مَا بَيْنَ السِّتِّينَ إِلَى الْمِائَةِ وَيُصَلِّي الظُّهْرَ إِذَا زَالَتِ الشَّمْسُ وَالْعَصْرَ وَأَحَدُنَا يَذْهَبُ إِلَى أَقْصَى الْمَدِينَةِ ثُمَّ يَرْجِعُ وَالشَّمْسُ حَيَّةٌ وَنَسِيتُ مَا قَالَ فِي الْمَغْرِبِ وَلاَ يُبَالِي بِتَأْخِيرِ الْعِشَاءِ إِلَى ثُلُثِ اللَّيْلِ ثُمَّ قَالَ إِلَى شَطْرِ اللَّيْلِ وَقَالَ مُعَاذٌ قَالَ شُعْبَةُ ثُمَّ لَقِيتُهُ مَرَّةً فَقَالَ أَوْ ثُلُثِ اللَّيْلِ
The Prophet’s ﷺ last recitation of Surat al-Mursalat in Maghrib
that Umm al-Fadl heard him while he was reciting, "By those sent forth in succession," and she said, "My dear son, by Allah, you have reminded me, by your recitation of this surah, that it was the last thing I heard from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, reciting it in Maghrib."
إِنَّ أُمَّ الْفَضْلِ سَمِعَتْهُ وَهُوَ يَقْرَأُ ﴿وَالْمُرْسَلاَتِ عُرْفًا﴾، فَقَالَتْ: يَا بُنَىَّ، وَاللَّهِ لَقَدْ ذَكَّرْتَنِي بِقِرَاءَتِكَ هَذِهِ السُّورَةَ؛ إِنَّهَا لآخِرُ مَا سَمِعْتُ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقْرَأُ بِهَا فِي الْمَغْرِبِ.
My father said, "I heard Messenger of Allah ﷺ reciting "at-Tur" (52) in the Maghrib prayer."
سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَرَأَ فِي الْمَغْرِبِ بِالطُّورِ