Establishing the Prayer and the Sunnah Regarding Them

“For theFajr prayer on Fridays, the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to recite‘Alif-Lam-Mim. The revelation...’ [32:1] and ‘Has there notbeen overman...’” [76:1]

It wasnarrated from Abu Hurairah that for the Subh prayer onFridays, theMessenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to recite ‘Alif-Lam-Mim’.Therevelation...’[32:1] and ‘Has there not been over man...”[76:1]

It wasnarrated from ‘Abdullah bin Mas’ud that for the Subh prayer onFridays, the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to recite “Alif-Lam-Mim.The revelation...” [32:1] and “Has there not been over man..”[76:1]

“I asked Abu Sa’eed Al-Khudriaboutthe prayer of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). He said: ‘There isnothing good in that for you.’* I said: ‘Explain it, may Allahhavemercy on you.’ He said: ‘The Iqamah would be given for theZuhr prayerfor the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), then one of us would goout to Al-Baqi’, relieve himself, then come back and performablution, and hewould find the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) still in thefirst Rak’ah ofZuhr.’”

“I said to Khabbab: ‘How didyourecognize that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was reciting in theZuhrand the ‘Asr?’ He said: ‘From the movement of his beard.’”

“I have never seen anyonewhoseprayer more closely resembles that of the Messenger of Allah(ﷺ)than so-and-so. He used to lengthen the first two Rak’ah of theZuhr and shorten the last two Rak’ah, and he used to shorten the‘Asr.”

“Thirty of theCompanions of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) who had been at Badr cametogether and said: ‘Come, let us estimate the length of therecitationof the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) for the prayer in whichQur’an is notrecited out aloud.’ No two men among themdisagreed, and theyestimated the length of his recitation in thefirst Rak’ah of the Zuhrto be thirty Verses and in the secondRak’ah to be half of that. Theyestimated his recitation in ‘Asrto be half of the last two Rak’ah ofZuhr.”

“TheMessenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to recite when leading us in thefirsttwo Rak’ah of the Zuhr prayer, and sometimes he would recitesuchthat we could hear the Verse.”

“The Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) used to lead us for the Zuhr, and we would hear him reciting aVerse after the Verses from Surat Luqman (31) and Adh-Dhariyat (51).”

“(She was) Lubabah”that she heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) reciting ‘By the windssent forth one after another...’[Al-Mursalat (77)] in the Maghrib.

“I heard the Prophet (ﷺ) reciting At-Tur (52) in the Maghrib.”In a different narration, Jubair said: “And when I heard himrecite:‘Were they created by nothing? Or were they themselves thecreators?’up to: ‘Then let their listener produce some manifestproof’,[52:35-38] it was as if my heart were about to take flight.”

“The Prophet (ﷺ) used torecitein the Maghrib: ‘Say: O you disbelievers!’[Al-Kafirun (109)]and‘Say: He is Allah, (the) One.’”[Al-Ikhlas (112)]

“I heard him reciting‘Bythe fig, and the olive’.”[Al-Tin (95)]

“Ihave never heard any man with a better voice or who recites betterthan him.”

“Recite ‘By the sun and its brightness,’[Al-Shams(91)]‘Glorify the Name of your Lord, the Most High,’ [Al-A’la(87)] ‘By thenight as it envelops,’ [Al-Lail (92)] or, ‘Read!In the Name of yourLord Who has created.’” [Al-‘Alaq (96)]

“Thereis no prayer for the one who does not recite Fatihatil-Kitab init.”

“TheMessenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: ‘Whoever performs a prayer in whichhedoes not recite Ummul Qur’an (the Mother of the Qur’an, i.e.,Al-Fatihah), it is deficient; not complete.’” I said: ‘O AbuHurairah,sometimes I am behind the Imam. He pressed my forearm andsaid: ‘OPersian! Recite it to yourself.’”

“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)said: ‘There is no prayer for the one who does not recite in everyRak’ah: Al-Hamd (Al-Fatihah) and a Surah whether in an obligatoryprayer or another.’”

“I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: ‘Every prayer in which the Ummul-Kitab (the Mother of the Book) is not recited is deficient.’”

“Every prayerinwhich Fatihatil-Kitab (the Opening of the Book) is not recited, itisdeficient, it is deficient.”