Zaid bin Wahb narrates: Sayyiduna Hudhaifah bin Yaman (may Allah be pleased with him) entered the mosque and saw a man from a nearby area of Kindah performing prayer. He was neither completing the bowing (ruku') nor the prostration (sujud). When he finished, Sayyiduna Hudhaifah (may Allah be pleased with him) said to him: "Since when have you been praying like this?" He replied: "For forty years." Sayyiduna Hudhaifah (may Allah be pleased with him) said to him: "(The reality is that) you have not prayed for forty years, and if you were to die in this state, with your prayer being like this, you would not die upon the religion that was given to Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him)." Then he turned to him and, teaching him the prayer, said: "A man can lighten the prayer even while completing the bowing and prostration (it is not necessary to hasten)."