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Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 298-304

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Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 298-304 Chapter 41: It is disliked to delay the prayers beyond their proper times, and what a person should do if the Imam delays the prayer . Abu Dharr reported: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said to me: How would you act when you are under the rulers who would delay the prayer beyond its prescribed time, or they would make prayer a dead thing as far as its proper time is concerned? I said: What do you command? He (the Holy Prophet) said: Observe the prayer at Its proper time, and if you can say it along with them do so, for it would be a supererogatory prayer for you. Khalaf (one of the narrators in the above hadith) has not mentioned" beyond their (prescribed) time". ( Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 298 ) Abu Dharr reported: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said to me: O Abu Dharr, you would soon find after me rulers who would make their prayers dead. You should say prayer at its prescribed time. If you say prayer at its prescribed tim...

Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 290-297

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Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 290-297 Chapter 40: It is recommended to pray Subh early, at the beginning of its time, when it is still dark; and the length of recitation therein . 'A'isha reported: The believing women used to pray the morning prayer with the Messenger of Allah and then return wrapped in their mantles. No one could recognise them. ( Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 290 ) 'A'isha, the wife of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), reported: The believing women observed the morning prayer with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) wrapped in their mantles. They then went back to their houses and were unrecognisable, because of the Messenger of Allah's (ﷺ) praying in the darkness before dawn. ( Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 291 ) 'A'isha reported: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to observe the morning prayer, and the women would go back wrapped in their mantles being unrecognisable because of the darkness before dawn. (Ishaq b. Musa) al-Ansari (...

Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 273-289

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Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 273-289 Chapter 38: The beginning of the time for Maghrib when the sun sets. Salama b. al-Akwa' reported that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to pray the evening prayer when the sun had set and disappeared (behind the horizon). ( Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 273 ) Rafi' b. Khadij reported: We used to observe the evening prayer with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and then one of us would go away and he could see the (distant) place where his arrow would fall. ( Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 274 ) A hadith like this, i.e." We used to observe evening prayer...." so on and so forth, has been narrated by Rafi' b. Khadij by another chain of transmitters. ( Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 275 ) Chapter 39: The time of `Isha and delaying it. 'A'isha. the wife of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), reported: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) deferred one night the 'Isya' prayer. And this is called 'Atama. And the Me...

Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 265-272

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Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 265-272 Chapter 37: The virtue of the Subh and the `Asr prayers, and of maintaining them . Abu Huraira reported: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Angels take turns among you by night and by day, and they all assemble at the dawn and afternoon prayers. Those (of the angels) who spend the night among you, then, ascend, and their Lord asks them, though He is the best informed about them: How did you leave My servants? -they say: We left them while they were praying and we came to them while they were praying. ( Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 265 ) Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: Angels take turns among you by night and by day, and the rest of the hadith is the same. ( Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 266 ) Jarir b. Abdullah is reported to have said: We were sitting with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) that he looked at the full moon and observed: You shall see your Lord as you are seeing this moon, and you will not be...

Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 256-264

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Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 256-264 Chapter 36: The evidence for those who say that “the middle prayer” is the `Asr prayer . 'Ali reported: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: On the day (of the Battle) of Ahzab we were diverted from the middle prayer, till the sun set. May Allah fill their graves or their houses, or their stomachs with fire. The narrator is in doubt about" houses" and" stomachs". ( Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 256 ) This hadith has heed narrated by Qatada with the same chain of transmitters. And he said: Their houses and their graves (be filled with fire), and did not express doubt over the words," houses" and" graves". ( Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 257 ) Yahya heard 'Ali saying that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said on the day (of the Battle) of Ahzab, while sitting in one of the openings of the ditch: They (the enemies) have diverted us from the middle prayer till the sun set. May Allah fill th...