Sunan an-Nasa'i
Sunan an-Nasa'i 982
أَخْبَرَنَا هَارُونُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي فُدَيْكٍ، عَنِ الضَّحَّاكِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ، عَنْ بُكَيْرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ يَسَارٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، قَالَ مَا صَلَّيْتُ وَرَاءَ أَحَدٍ أَشْبَهَ صَلاَةً بِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم مِنْ فُلاَنٍ . قَالَ سُلَيْمَانُ كَانَ يُطِيلُ الرَّكْعَتَيْنِ الأُولَيَيْنِ مِنَ الظُّهْرِ وَيُخَفِّفُ الأُخْرَيَيْنِ وَيُخَفِّفُ الْعَصْرَ وَيَقْرَأُ فِي الْمَغْرِبِ بِقِصَارِ الْمُفَصَّلِ وَيَقْرَأُ فِي الْعِشَاءِ بِوَسَطِ الْمُفَصَّلِ وَيَقْرَأُ فِي الصُّبْحِ بِطُوَلِ الْمُفَصَّلِ .
Harun ibn Abdullah informed us: Ibn Abi Fudayk narrated to us, from al-Dahhak ibn Uthman, from Bukayr ibn Abdullah, from Sulayman ibn Yasar, from Abu Hurairah, who said: I have never prayed behind anyone whose prayer more closely resembled the prayer of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ than so-and-so. Sulayman said: He used to prolong the first two units of the noon prayer and shorten the last two; he would keep the afternoon prayer brief. In the sunset prayer he recited the short surahs of al-Mufassal; in the night prayer, the middle-length surahs of al-Mufassal; and in the dawn prayer, the long surahs of al-Mufassal.
Translation notes
The imam remains unnamed in the source. Al-Mufassal is rendered by its standard Arabic name, with the short, middle, and long divisions preserved.