Al-Qawārīrī and ʿAlī ibn Ḥujr related: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar al-Madani narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf informed us, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Faḍl, from Abū Bakr ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from Safwān ibn al-Muʿaṭṭal al-Sulamī, who said:
“I was travelling with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and decided to observe his prayer one night. He performed the final ʿIshāʾ prayer, then lay down. When half the night had elapsed he awoke, recited the last ten verses of Sūrat Āl ʿImrān, lay down again, then rose, used the tooth-stick, performed ablution, and prayed two rakʿahs (units of prayer). I could not tell which was longer—his standing, his bowing, or his prostration. He then finished, lay down, awoke once more, recited those same ten verses, used the tooth-stick, performed ablution, and prayed two rakʿahs.
“He kept repeating exactly what he had done the first time until he had completed eleven rakʿahs. ⦗1⦘

With a disconnected chain in Tārīkh Dimashq it is mentioned that Safwān ibn al-Muʿaṭṭal, at Dayriyya ⦗2⦘, charged a Byzantine warrior who was arrayed in foreign ornaments. He speared him, brought him down, whereupon the man’s wife screamed and rushed toward him.
Safwān then recited:

I have seen the horses churn their clouds of dust—
from Dayriyya of Damascus all the way to Nawā.
I struck a man decked in jewels; his bride cried out,
“O son of al-Muʿaṭṭal, what is it that you intend?”
I answered, “I shall leave your husband at the monastery,
face-down, his mocking laughter smeared in the soil.
Since he was clad in ornaments, I displayed them openly—
for I have ever been enamoured of those who flaunt their finery.” ⦗3⦘