Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) performed either the Zuhr or Asr prayer, and in one of these prayers he ended the prayer after two rak‘ahs. So Dhu’l-Yadayn bin ‘Abd bin ‘Amr bin Nadhla Khuzā‘ī, who was an ally of Banu Zuhrah, said: O Messenger of Allah! Has the prayer been shortened or did you forget? The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said:“I did not forget, nor has the prayer been shortened.”Dhu’l-Yadayn said: There must be something, O Messenger of Allah. So the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) turned to the people and said:“Is Dhu’l-Yadayn speaking the truth?”They replied: Yes. Therefore, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) stood up and completed the prayer, and no narrator has told me that while sitting in that state, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) performed two prostrations in that prayer (this, in their opinion, and Allah knows best) because the people convinced him and he became certain that there had been a deficiency in the prayer (and only two rak‘ahs had been performed).