CHAPTER: The Amount Of Recitation In Zuhr and ’Asr. - باب: ظہر اور عصر میں پڑھی جانے والی سورتوں کا بیان ۔ - Prayer (kitab al-salat) - Sunnan Abu Dawood with Urdu and English Translation

Narrated Jabir ibn Samurah: The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم used to recite in the noon and afternoon prayer: By the Heaven and the Morning Star (Surah 86) and By the Heaven, holding mansions of the stars (Surah 85) and similar surahs of equal length.

Jabir bin Samurah said: When the sun declined, the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم offered the noon prayer and recited surahs lie By the night when it covers over (92) and (recited similar surahs) in the afternoon prayer, and in the other prayers except the dawn prayer which he used to prolong.

Ibn Umr said: The prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم prostrated himself in the noon prayer; then he stood up and bowed, and we knew that he recited Tanzil al-sajdah (surah xxxii). Ibn ‘Isa said: No one narrated this tradition to Umayyah except Mu’tamir

Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas: Abdullah ibn Ubaydullah said: I went to Ibn Abbas accompanying some youths of Banu Hashim. We said to one of them: Ask Ibn Abbas: Did the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم recite (the Quran) in the noon and afternoon prayers? He replied: No. People said to him: Perhaps he might recite the Quran quietly. He said: May your face be scratched (a kind of curse)! This (statement) is worse than the former. He was only a servant (of Allah) receiving Commands from Him. He preached (the divine) message which he brought with him. He did not command anything to us (Banu Hashim) specially excluding other people except three points: he commanded us to perform ablution perfectly, and not to accept charity (sadaqah) and not to make pairing of donkey with horse.

Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas: I do not know whether the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم would recite the Quran at the noon and afternoon prayer or not.