Zaid bin Thabit said: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم used to offer the Zuhr prayer in midday heat; and no prayer was harder on the Companions of the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم that this one. Hence the revelation came down: "Be guardians of your prayers, and of the midmost prayer" (2: 238). He (the narrator) said: There are two prayers before it and two prayers after it.

Abu Hurairah reported the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم as saying: If anyone says a rak'ah of the Asr prayer before sunset, he has observed (the Asr prayer), and if anyone performs a rak'ah of the Fajr prayer before sunrise, he has observed (the Fajr prayer).

Ala bin Abdur-Rahman said: We came upon Anas bin Malik after the Zuhr prayer. He stood for saying the Asr prayer. When he became free from praying, we mentioned to him about observing prayer in its early period or he himself mentioned it. He said: I heard the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم say: This is how hypocrites pray, this is how hypocrites pray, this is how hypocrites pray: He sits (watching the sun), and when it becomes yellow and is between the horns of the devil, or is on the horns of the devil, he rises and prays for rak'ahs quickly, remembering Allah only seldom during them.

Ibn Umar reported the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم as saying: Anyone who loses his Asr prayer is like a person whose family has perished and whose property has been plundered. Abu Dawud said: Abdullah bin Umar narrated the word utira (instead of wutira, meaning perished). The dispute on this point goes back to Ayyub. Al-Zuhri reported from Salim on the authority of this father from the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم the word 'wutira'.

Al-Awzai said: Delaying the Asr prayer means that the sunshine becomes yellow on the earth.

Anas bin Malik said: We used to offer the Maghrib prayer with the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم and then shoot arrows, one of us could see the place where arrow would fall.

Salamah bin al-Akwa said: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم used to say the Maghrib prayer immediately after the sun had set when its upper side would disappear.

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 is this, Uqbah? He said: We were busy. He said: Did you not hear the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم say: My community will remain well, or he said: will remain on its natural condition, so long as it would not delay the evening prayer until the stars shine brightly just like a network.

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 occupied or there was some other matter. When he came out, he said: Are you waiting for this prayer ? Were it not that it would impose a burden on my people, I would normally pray with them at this time. He then gave orders to the muadhdhin who declared that the time of the prayer had come.