The Prophet ﷺ would pray the dawn prayer, and one of us could recognize the person sitting next to him. He would recite between sixty and a hundred verses in it. He would pray the noon prayer when the sun had passed its zenith, and the afternoon prayer at a time when one of us could go to the farthest part of Madinah and return while the sun was still bright. I forgot what he said about the sunset prayer. He did not mind delaying the evening prayer until a third of the night had passed, then he said, until half of the night.Muaz said that Shuba said, "Then I met him another time, and he said, 'Or a third of the night.'"
كان النبي ﷺ يصلي الصبح، وأحدنا يعرف جليسه، ويقرأ فيها ما بين الستين إلى المائة، ويصلي الظهر إذا زالت الشمس، والعصر وأحدنا يذهب إلى أقصى المدينة رجع والشمس حية، ونسيت ما قال في المغرب، ولا يبالي بتأخير العشاء إلى ثلث الليل- ثم قال: إلى شطر الليل. وقال معاذ قال شعبة: ثم لقيته مرة فقال: أو ثلث الليل.
Bukhari narrated it in "The Prayer Times" (541) from Hafs bin Umar, who said, Shubah narrated to us, from Abu Minhal, from Abu Barza, and he related the hadith. Muslim narrated it in "The Mosques" (647) through several routes from Shubah, in the same manner.Abu Minhal's name was Sayyar bin Salama. As for Bukhari's statement, "Muaz said," he means by this Muaz bin Muaz bin Nasr bin Hassan Anbari Basri. Muslim narrated his hadith in his Sahih from Ubaydullah bin Muaz, who said, my father narrated to us, Shubah narrated to us, and he related it.Hammad bin Salama narrated it from Sayyar bin Salama Abu Minhal, who said, I heard Abu Barza Aslami relate the hadith about delaying the night prayer until a third of the night, then he said, "Sleeping before it and talking after it are disliked." Muslim narrated it.