Sunan Abu Dawood 417

Narrated Abu Ayyub: Marthad ibn Abdullah said: When Abu Ayyub came upon us to fight the infidels and in those days Uqbah ibn Amir was the Governor of Egypt, he (Uqbah) delayed the sunset prayer. Hence Abu Ayyub stood and said: What kind of prayer..

Narrated An-Numan ibn Bashir: I am the one who is best informed of the time of this prayer, i. e. the night prayer. The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم used to offer it at the hour when the moon went down on its third night. ..

Abdullah bin Umar said: We remained one night waiting for the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم to offer the Isha prayer. He came out to us when one-third of the night has passed or even after it. We did not know whether anything kept him..

Narrated Muadh ibn Jabal: We waited for the Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم to offer the night prayer. He delayed until people thought that he would not come out and some of us said that he had offered the prayer. At the moment when we were in this..

Narrated Abu Saeed al-Khudri: We observed the prayer after nightfall with the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم, and he did not come out till about half the night had passed. He then said: Take your places. We then took our places. Then he..

Aishah reported: The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم would say the Fajr prayer after which the women would depart wrapped up their woolen garments, being unrecognizable because of the darkness before dawn. ..