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Narrated Abu-l-Minhal:My father and I went to Abi Barza Al-Aslami and my father said to him, "Tell us how Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) used to offer the compulsory congregational prayers." He said, "He used to pray the Zuhr prayer, which you call the first prayer, as the sun declined at noon, the `Asr at a time when one of US could go to his family at the farthest place in Medina while the sun was still hot. (The narrator forgot what Abu Barza had said about the Maghrib prayer), and the Prophet (ﷺ) preferred to pray the `Isha' late and disliked to sleep before it or talk after it. And he used to return after finishing the morning prayer at such a time when it was possible for one to recognize the person sitting by his side and he (the Prophet) used to recite 60 to 100 'Ayat' (verses) of the Qur'an in it

حدثنا مسدد، قال حدثنا يحيى، قال حدثنا عوف، قال حدثنا ابو المنهال، قال انطلقت مع ابي الى ابي برزة الاسلمي فقال له ابي حدثنا كيف، كان رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يصلي المكتوبة قال كان يصلي الهجير وهى التي تدعونها الاولى حين تدحض الشمس، ويصلي العصر، ثم يرجع احدنا الى اهله في اقصى المدينة والشمس حية، ونسيت ما قال في المغرب. قال وكان يستحب ان يوخر العشاء. قال وكان يكره النوم قبلها والحديث بعدها، وكان ينفتل من صلاة الغداة حين يعرف احدنا جليسه، ويقرا من الستين الى الماية