Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob and the Tribes, and in what was given to Moses and Jesus and in what the prophets received from their Lord; we make no distinction between any of them, and to Him we submit.” (2:136)
In the second rakʿah he would recite:
“Say: O People of the Book, come to a word that is just between us and you: that we worship none but Allah, that we associate nothing with Him, and that none of us takes others as lords besides Allah. If they turn away, then say: Bear witness that we are Muslims.” (3:64)
At other times he recited instead:
“When Jesus sensed disbelief in them, he said: Who will be my helpers toward Allah? The disciples said: We are Allah’s helpers; we believe in Allah, so bear witness that we are Muslims.” (3:52)
Sometimes he would recite “Say: O you who disbelieve” (109:6) in the first rakʿah and “Say: He is Allah, One” (112:4) in the second. He said of them, “How excellent those two sūrahs are.” On one occasion he heard a man recite the first sūrah in the first rakʿah and remarked, “This servant has believed in his Lord.” When the man recited the second sūrah in the other rakʿah he said, “This servant has come to know his Lord.” (pp. 448–456)
- The Noon Prayer (Ẓuhr)
He ﷺ would recite in the first two rakʿahs Sūrat al-Fātiḥah together with two additional sūrahs, making the first considerably longer than the second. At times he prolonged it so much that “the iqāmah for ẓuhr would be given, someone would go to al-Baqīʿ to relieve himself, return home, perform ablution, and come back while the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was still in the first rakʿah because of how lengthy he made it.” The Companions thought he did this so that people could catch the first rakʿah.
He used to recite in each of the two about thirty verses—roughly the length of “Alif-Lām-Mīm. The Revelation…” (Sūrah al-Sajdah, 32:30)—over and above al-Fātiḥah.
They could hear the cadence of his voice when he recited “Glorify the name of your Lord, the Most High” (87:19) and “Has there come to you the report of the Overwhelming?” (88:26).
At times he recited “By the sky with its constellations” (85:22) and “By the sky and the night-comer” (86:17) and other sūrahs of similar length; on other occasions he chose “By the night when it covers” (92:21) and the like.
He might also recite “When the sky is split asunder” and similar passages.
They recognized his recitation in ẓuhr and ʿaṣr by the movement of his beard, and on occasion he would let them hear a verse. (pp. 457–466)