Jami' at-Tirmidhi — Hadith #26465

Ahmad bin Mani’ told us, Yazid bin Harun told us, Hammad bin Salamah told us, on the authority of Samak bin Harb, on the authority of Jabir bin Samurah, that The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, used to recite at noon and afternoon the sky with constellations, the sky, the Tariq, and the likes of them. He said, and in the chapter On the authority of Khabab, Abu Saeed, Abu Qatada, Zayd bin Thabit, and Al-Baraa bin Azib. Abu Issa said the hadith of Jabir bin Samurah is a hasan hadith. It was narrated on the authority of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, that he recited in the noon prayer the amount of the prostration revealed. It was narrated on the authority of him that he used to recite in the rak’ah The first rak'ah of the noon prayer included thirty verses, and in the second rak'ah there were fifteen verses. It was narrated on the authority of Omar that he wrote to Abu Musa to recite in Zuhr with the middle of the mufassal. Some scholars saw that the recitation in the afternoon prayer is similar to the recitation in the The Maghrib prayer is recited in short Al-Mufassal. It was narrated on the authority of Ibrahim Al-Nakhi that he said that the Asr prayer is equivalent to the Maghrib prayer in the recitation. Ibrahim said: The noon prayer is multiplied by the afternoon prayer in the recitation four times.