Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that when the muezzin would give the call to prayer, the companions of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) would hasten to use the pillars as sutrah and begin to pray, until the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) would arrive and they would still be praying two rak‘ahs before Maghrib in this manner. And there was not much interval between the adhan and the iqamah. Imam Abu Bakr (may Allah have mercy on him) says that Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) means that there was not a long interval.