Muwatta Malik #7
The Times of Prayer
The Arabic includes the chain of narration (sanad) and the collector's commentary; the English translation shows the Prophet's words only.
وَحَدَّثَنِي عَنْ مَالِكٍ، عَنْ عَمِّهِ أَبِي سُهَيْلٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، أَنَّ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ، كَتَبَ إِلَى أَبِي مُوسَى أَنْ صَلِّ الظُّهْرَ، إِذَا زَاغَتِ الشَّمْسُ وَالْعَصْرَ وَالشَّمْسُ بَيْضَاءُ نَقِيَّةٌ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَدْخُلَهَا صُفْرَةٌ وَالْمَغْرِبَ إِذَا غَرَبَتِ الشَّمْسُ وَأَخِّرِ الْعِشَاءَ مَا لَمْ تَنَمْ وَصَلِّ الصُّبْحَ وَالنُّجُومُ بَادِيَةٌ مُشْتَبِكَةٌ وَاقْرَأْ فِيهَا بِسُورَتَيْنِ طَوِيلَتَيْنِ مِنَ الْمُفَصَّلِ .
Yahya related to me from Malik, from his uncle Abu Suhayl from
his father that Umar ibn al-Khattab wrote to Abu Musa saying that he
should pray dhuhr when the sun had started to decline, asr when the
sun was still pure white before any yellowness had entered it maghrib
when the sun had set, and to delay isha as long as he did not sleep,
and to pray subh when the stars were all visible and like a haze in
the sky and to read in it two long suras from the mufassal.
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This hadith is #7 from Muwatta Malik, in the Book of The Times of Prayer.