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Qurʾān Bukhārī Muslim Nasāʾī Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Ibn Mājah Mālik Aḥmad Dārimī Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
nasai:875 – Muḥammad b. al-Muthanná > Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman > Ḥuṣayn b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman > Abū Isḥāq > ʿĀṣim b. Ḍamrah > Saʾalt ʿAlī b. Abū Ṭālib

"I asked 'Ali bin Abi Talib about the prayer of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ during the day before the prescribed prayers. He said: 'Who is able to do that?' Then he told us:'The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to pray two Rak'ahs when the sun had passed its zenith, and four Rak'ahs before the middle of the day, with the Taslim at the end."'  

النسائي:٨٧٥ – أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا حُصَيْنُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ ضَمْرَةَ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ عَلِيَّ بْنَ أَبِي طَالِبٍ

عَنْ صَلاَةِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ فِي النَّهَارِ قَبْلَ الْمَكْتُوبَةِ قَالَ مَنْ يُطِيقُ ذَلِكَ ثُمَّ أَخْبَرَنَا قَالَ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ يُصَلِّي حِينَ تَزِيغُ الشَّمْسُ رَكْعَتَيْنِ وَقَبْلَ نِصْفِ النَّهَارِ أَرْبَعَ رَكَعَاتٍ يَجْعَلُ التَّسْلِيمَ فِي آخِرِهِ  

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Collected by Nasāʾī's Kubrá
nasai-kubra:336 – Muḥammad b. al-Muthanná > Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman > Ḥuṣayn b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman > Abū Isḥāq > ʿĀṣim b. Ḍamrah > Saʾalt ʿAlī b. Abū Ṭālib

[Machine] About the Prophet's ﷺ prayer during the day after the obligatory prayers? He said, "Who can handle that?" Then he informed him, and said, "He used to pray two units of prayer when the sun rises, before midday he prays four units of prayer making the tasleem in the last unit, before noon he prays four units of prayer making the tasleem in the last unit, and after that he prays four units of prayer making the tasleem in the last unit."  

الكبرى للنسائي:٣٣٦ – أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا حُصَيْنُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ ضَمْرَةَ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ عَلِيَّ بْنَ أَبِي طَالِبٍ

عَنْ صَلَاةِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ مِنَ النَّهَارِ بَعْدَ الْمَكْتُوبَةِ؟ قَالَ وَمَنْ يُطِيقُ ذَلِكَ؟ ثُمَّ أَخْبَرَهُ قَالَ «كَانَ يُصَلِّي حِينَ تَرْتَفِعُ الشَّمْسُ رَكْعَتَيْنِ وَقَبْلَ نِصْفِ النَّهَارِ أَرْبَعَ رَكَعَاتٍ يُجْعَلُ التَّسْلِيمَ فِي آخِرِ رَكْعَةٍ وَقَبْلَ الظُّهْرِ أَرْبَعَ رَكَعَاتٍ يُجْعَلُ التَّسْلِيمَ فِي آخِرِ رَكْعَةٍ وَبَعْدَهَا أَرْبَعَ رَكَعَاتٍ يُجْعَلُ التَّسْلِيمَ فِي آخِرِ رَكْعَةٍ»