Sunan an-Nasa'i 495

Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-A‘la reported to us: Khalid narrated to us, from Shu‘bah, from Sayyar ibn Salamah, who said: I heard my father ask Abu Barzah about the prayer of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). I asked, “Did you hear him yourself?” He replied, “As I hear you now.” He said: I heard my father ask about the prayer of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). Abu Barzah said: He did not mind delaying it somewhat—that is, ‘Isha’—until halfway through the night, but he did not like sleeping before it or talking after it. Shu‘bah said: Then I met him later and asked him. He said: He used to pray Zuhr when the sun passed its zenith, and ‘Asr when a man could travel to the farthest part of Madinah while the sun was still bright and hot. As for Maghrib, I do not know what time he mentioned. Then I met him later and asked him, and he said: He used to pray Fajr; after the prayer, a man would leave, look at the face of a companion he knew, and recognize him. He said: He would recite in it between sixty and one hundred verses.