Abu Hurairah (RA) reported that the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) recited in the two (supererogatory) rak'ahs of the dawn (prayer): "Say: O unbelievers," (Qur'an, cix.) and "Say: Allah is one" (cxii.).

Ibn 'Abbas reported that the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) used to recite in first of the two (supererogatory) rak'ahs of the dawn:" Say: We believed in Allah and what was revealed to us..." verses 285-286 from Surah Baqarah, and in the second of the two: "I believe in Allah and I bear testimony that we are Muslims" (iii. 51).

Ibn 'Abbas reported that the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) used to recite in the two (supererogatory) rak'ahs of the dawn prayer: "Say: We believed in Allah and what was revealed to us" and that which is found in Surah Al-i-'Imran:" Come to that word (creed) which is common between you and us" (iii. 64).

This hadith has been transmitted by another chain of narrators.

Umm Habiba (the wife of the Holy Prophet) reported Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as saying: A house will be built in Paradise, for anyone who prays in a day and a night twelve rak'ahs; and she added: I have never abandoned (observing them) since I heard it from the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) . Some of the other narrators said the same words: I have never abandoned (observing them) since I heard (from so and so).

Nu'man bin Salim reported with the same chain of transmitters: He who observed twelve voluntary rak'ahs, a house will be built for him in Paradise.

Umm Habiba, the wife of the Apostle of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) , reported Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as saying: If any Muslim servant (of Allah) prays for the sake of Allah twelve rak'ahs (of Sunan) every day, over and above the obligatory ones, Allah will build for him a house in Paradise, or a house will be built for him in Paradise; and I have not abandoned to observe the in after (hearing it from the Messenger of Allah) ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) . (So said also 'Amr and Nu'man.)

Umm Habiba reported the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) having said: If any Muslim servant (of Allah) performed ablution, and performed it well, and then observed every day, the rest of the hadith is the same.

And Zuhayr ibn Harb and Ubaydullah ibn Sa'id narrated to me, they said: Yahya, who is Ibn Sa'id, narrated to us from Ubaydullah, he said: Nafi' informed me from Ibn Umar. And Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah narrated to us, Abu Usamah narrated to us, Ubaydullah narrated to us from Nafi' from Ibn Umar, he said: "I prayed with the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, two rak'ahs before Dhuhr and two after it, and two after Maghrib, and two after Isha, and two after Jumu'ah. As for Maghrib, Isha, and Jumu'ah, I prayed with the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, in his house."

'Abdullah bin Shaqiq said: I asked 'A'isha about the Messenger of Allah's ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) voluntary prayers, and she replied: Before the noon prayer, he used to pray four rak'ahs in my house; then would go out and lead the people in prayer; then come in and pray two rak'ahs. He would then lead the people in the sunset prayer; then come in and pray two rak'ahs. Then he would lead the people in the 'Isha' prayer, and enter my house and pray two rak'ahs. He would pray nine rak'ahs during the night, including Witr. At night he would pray for a long time standing and for a long time sitting, and when he recited the Holy Qur'an while standing, he would bow and prostrate himself from the standing position, and when he recited while sitting, he would bow and prostrate himself from the sitting position, and when it was dawn he would pray two rak'ahs.