Jami' at-Tirmidhi — Hadith #26531

Al-Ansari narrated to us, Ma’an narrated to us, Malik bin Anas narrated to us, on the authority of Ibn Shihab, on the authority of Al-Sa’ib bin Yazid, on the authority of Al-Muttalib bin Abi Wada’ah. Al-Sahmi, on the authority of Hafsa, the wife of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, that she said: I have never seen the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, pray in his rosary sitting until It was a year before his death, may God bless him and grant him peace, that he used to pray his rosary while sitting and recite the surah and recite it until it was longer than the longest. On the authority of Umm Salamah and Anas bin Malik. Abu Issa said: The hadith of Hafsa is a good and authentic hadith. It was narrated on the authority of The Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, used to pray at night sitting, and when thirty or forty verses remained of his recitation, he would stand up and recite, then bow down, then perform the prayer. In the second rak’ah, like that. It was narrated from him that he used to pray sitting, so when he recited while standing, he bowed and prostrated. And he is standing, and when he recites while sitting, he kneels and prostrates while sitting. Ahmed and Ishaq said, and the work is based on both hadiths. It is as if they saw both hadiths as authentic and in practice.