Ahmad ibn Ibrahim ibn Firas transmitted to us; Muhammad ibn al-Rabiʿ al-Jīzī transmitted to us; ʿAbd Allah ibn Abi Rūmān in Alexandria transmitted to us; Ibn Wahb narrated to us; ʿĪsā ibn Yūnus informed me—through another route.

Ibn Tāhir continued: al-Faḍl ibn ʿAbd Allah, the Qurʾān exegete, transmitted to us; Abū’l-Ḥusayn al-Khaffāf transmitted to us; Abū’l-ʿAbbās al-Sarrāj narrated to us; Isḥāq al-Ḥanẓalī transmitted to us; ʿĪsā ibn Yūnus informed us; Ḥusayn the schoolmaster narrated to us, from Budayl ibn Maysarah, from Abū’l-Jawzāʾ, from ʿĀʾishah, who said:

“The Messenger of Allah ﷺ would open his prayer with the takbīr and with the recitation, beginning, ‘All praise belongs to Allah, Lord of the Worlds.’ When he bowed, he would neither raise his head high nor lower it too far; when he lifted his head from bowing he stood upright; and when he raised his head from prostration he would not prostrate again until he had sat straight. He forbade the posture called ‘the heel of Satan.’ He would lay his left foot flat and set his right foot upright, and he disliked anyone to spread his forearms on the ground the way a dog does. He concluded the prayer with the taslīm, and in every two rakʿahs he recited the tashahhud.” (1)

We read this hadith aloud before Ahmad ibn Hibat Allah, on the authority of al-Qāsim ibn Abi Saʿd; Wajīh ibn Tāhir informed us; Abū’l-Qāsim al-Qushayrī informed us; al-Khaffāf … and he cited it.