Dawud reported from 'Amir who said: I asked 'Alqama if Ibn Mas'ud was present with the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) on the night of the Jinn (the night when the Holy Prophet ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) met them). He (Ibn Mas'uad) said: No, but we were in the company of the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) one night and we missed him. We searched for him in the valleys and the hills and said. He has either been taken away (by jinn) or has been secretly killed. He (the narrator) said. We spent the worst night which people could ever spend. When it was dawn we saw him coming from the side of Hiri'. He (the narrator) reported. We said: Messenger of Allah, we missed you and searched for you, but we could not find you and we spent the worst night which people could ever spend. He (the Holy Prophet) said: There came to me an inviter on behalf of the Jinn and I went along with him and recited to them the Qur'an. He (the narrator) said: He then went along with us and showed us their traces and traces of their embers. They (the Jinn) asked him (the Holy Prophet) about their provision and he said: Every bone on which the name of Allah is recited is your provision. The time it will fall in your hand it would be covered with flesh, and the dung of (the camels) is fodder for your animals. The Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said: Don't perform 'istinja' with these (things) for these are the food of your brothers (Jinn).

This hadith has been reported by Dawud with the same chain of transmitters up to the word (s):" The traces of their embers." Sha'bi said: They (the Jinn) asked about their provision, and they were the Jinn of al-Jazzier, up to the end of the hadith, and the words of Sha'bi have been directly transmitted from the hadith of 'Abdullah.

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of 'Abdullah from the Apostle ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) up to the words: "The traces of the embers," but he made no mention of what followed afterward.

'Abdullah (b. Mas'ud) said: I was not with the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) but I wish I were with him.

Ma'n reported.. I heard it from my father who said: I asked Masruq who informed the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) about the night when they heard the Qur'an. He said: Your father, Ibn Mas'ud, narrated it to me that a tree informed him about that.

Abu Qatadah (RA) reported: The Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) led us in prayer and recited in the first two rak'ahs of the noon and afternoon prayers Surat al-Fatiha and two (other) surahs. And he would sometimes recite loud enough for us to hear the verses. He would prolong the first rak'ah more than the second. And he acted similarly in the morning prayer.

Abu Qatadah (RA) reported it on the authority of his father: The Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) would recite in the first two rak'ahs of the noon and afternoon prayers the opening chapter of the Book and another surah. He would sometimes recite loud enough to make audible to us the verse and would recite in the last two rak'ahs Surat al-Fatiha (only).

Abu Sa'id al-Khudri reported: We used to estimate how long Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) stood in the noon and afternoon prayers, and we estimated that he stood in the first two rak'ahs of the noon prayer as long as it takes to recite Alif Lam Mim, Tanzil, i. e. as-Sajda. We estimated that he stood half that time in the last two rak'ahs; that he stood in the first two of the afternoon as long as he did in the last two at noon; and in the last two of the afternoon prayer about half that time. Abu Bakr (RA) in his narration has made no mention of Alif Lam Mim, Tanzil, but said: As long as it takes to recite thirty verses.

Abu Sa'id al-Khudri reported: The Apostle of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) used to recite in every rak'ah of the first two rak'ahs of the noon prayer about thirty verses and in the last two about fifteen verses or half (of the first rak'ah) and in every rak'ah of the 'Asr prayer of the first two rak'ahs about fifteen verses and in the last two verses half (of the first ones).

Jabir bin ahadeeth reported: The people of Kufa complained to Umar bin Khattab about Sa'id and they made a mention of his prayer. 'Umar sent for him. He came to him. He ('Umar) told him that the people had found fault with his prayer. He said: I lead them in prayer in accordance with the prayer of the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) . I make no decrease in it. I make them stand for a longer time in the first two (rak'ahs) and shorten it in the last two. Upon this 'Umar remarked: This is what I deemed of thee, O Abu Ishaq.