Muhammad bin 'Amr al-Hasan bin 'Ali reported: Hajjaj used to delay the prayers, and so we asked Jabir bin 'Abdullah, and the rest of the hadith is the same.

Sayyar bin Salama reported: I heard my father asking Abu Barza (al- Aslami) about the prayer of Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) I (Shu'bah, one of the narrators) said: Did you hear it (from Abu Barza)? He said: I feel as if I am bearing you at this very time. He said: I heard my father asking about the prayer of the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) and he (Abu Barza) making this reply: He (the Holy Prophet) did not mind delaying some (prayer) i. e. 'Isha' prayer, even up to the midnight and did not like sleeping before observing it, and talking after it. Shu'bah said: I met him subsequently and asked him (about the prayers of the Holy Prophet) and he said: He observed the noon prayer when the sun was past the meridian, he would pray the afternoon prayer, after which a person would o to the outskirts of Madinah and the sun was still bright; (I forgot what he said about the evening prayer); I then met him on a subsequent occasion and asked him (about the prayers of the Holy Prophet; and he said: He would observe the morning prayer (at such a time) so that a man would go back and would recognise his neighbour by casting a glance at his face, and he would recite from sixty to one hundred verses in it.

Sayyar bin Salama reported: I heard Abu Barza saying that the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) did not mind some delay in the 'Isha' prayer even up to the midnight and he did not like sleeping before (observing it) and talking after it. Shu'bah said: I again met him (Sayyar bin Salama) for the second time and he said: Even up to the third (part) of the night.

Abu Barza bin Aslami is reported to have said: The Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) delayed the night prayer till a third of the night had passed and he did not approve of sleeping before it, and talking after it, and he used to recite in the morning prayer from one hundred to sixty verses (and completed the prayer at such hours) when we recognised the faces of one another.

Abu Dharr (RA) reported: The Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) 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".

Abu Dharr (RA) reported: The Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) 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 time that would be a supererogatory prayer for you, otherwise you saved your prayer.

Abu Dharr (RA) reported: My friend (the Holy Prophet) bade me to hear and obey (the ruler) even if he is a slave having his feet and arms cut off, and observe prayer at its prescribed time. (And further said): It you find people having observed the prayer, you in fact saved your prayer, otherwise (if you join with them) that would be a Nafl prayer for you.

Abu Dharr (RA) reported: The Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) struck my thigh and said: How would you act if you survive among the people who would delay prayers beyond their (prescribed) time? He (Abu Dharr) said: What do you command (under this situation)? He (the Holy Prophet) slid: Observe prayer at its prescribed time, then go (to meet) your needs, and if when he hears the Iqamah is pronounced, and you are present in the mosque, then observe prayer (along with the Jama'at).

'Abu'l-'Aliyat al-Bara reported: Ibn Ziyad delayed the prayer. 'Abdullah bin Samit came to me and I placed a chair for him and he sat in it and I made a mention of what Ibn Ziyad had done. He bit his lips (as a sign of extreme anger and annoyance) and struck at my thigh and said: I asked Abu Dharr (RA) as you have asked me, and he struck my thigh just as I have struck your thigh, and said: I asked the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as you have asked me and he struck my thigh just as I have struck your thigh, and he (the Holy Prophet) said: Observe prayer at its prescribed time, and if you can say prayer along with them. do so, and do not say "I have observed prayer and so I shall not pray."

Abu Dharr (RA) reported: (The Messenger of Allah) ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said: How would you, or how would thou, act if you survive to live among people who defer prayer beyond the (prescribed) time? (The narrator said: Allah and His Messenger know best). whereupon he said: Observe prayer at its prescribed time, but if when he hears the Iqamah is pronounced for (congregational) prayer, then observe prayer along with them. for herein is an excess of virtue.