Hadith of the day

"There are two pauses in which I memorized from the Messenger of Allah (saw), but Imran bin Husain denied that. We wrote to Ubayy bin Kab in Al-Madinah, and he wrote that Samurah had indeed memorized them." (Hasan) (One of the narrators) Saeed said: "We said to Qatadah: 'What are these two pauses?' He said: 'When he started his prayer, and when he finished reciting.'" Then later he said: 'And when he recited: 'Not (the way) of those who earned Your Anger, nor of those who went astray.' [1:7] They used to like (for the Imam) when he had finished reciting to remain silent until he had caught his breath.'"

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