Jami` at-Tirmidhi 251

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Abu Musa Muhammad ibn al-Muthanna narrated to us: Abd al-Ala narrated to us, from Sa‘id, from Qatadah, from al-Hasan, from Samurah, who said: I memorized two pauses from the Messenger of Allah. Imran ibn Husayn objected to that and said: We memorized one pause. So we wrote to Ubayy ibn Kab in Medina, and Ubayy wrote back that Samurah had remembered correctly. Sa‘id said: We asked Qatadah, ‘What are these two pauses?’ He said: ‘When he begins his prayer, and when he finishes his recitation.’ Then he later added: ‘And at the recitation of nor those who have gone astray.’ He said: The Prophet liked to pause after finishing his recitation until his breath returned.

A report on this subject is also related from Abu Hurayrah. Abu Isa said: The hadith of Samurah is hasan. More than one scholar held that it is recommended for the imam to pause after beginning the prayer and after finishing the recitation. This was the view of Ahmad, Ishaq, and our associates.