Sahih al-BukhariVolume 1 • Book 12 • Hadith 731

Characteristics of Prayer — Hadith 731

English Translation

Narrated Marwan bin Al-Hakam: Zaid bin Thabit said to me, "Why do you recite very short S&ras in the Maghrib prayer while I heard the Prophet reciting the longer of the two long Suras?"

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