Abu Hurairah said, "I have not prayed behind anyone whose prayer more closely resembled the prayer of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ than so-and-so."Sulayman said, "So we prayed behind that man. He would lengthen the first two units of the noon prayer and shorten the last two, shorten the afternoon prayer, recite from the short surahs of the Mufassal in the sunset prayer, recite surahs like 'By the sun and its brightness' in the night prayer, and recite two long surahs in the dawn prayer."
عن أبي هريرة قال: ما صليت وراء أحد أشبه صلاة برسول الله ﷺ من فلان. قال سليمان: فصلينا وراء ذلك الإنسان وكان يطيل الأوليين من الظهر، ويخفف في الأخريين، ويخفف في العصر ويقرأ في المغرب بقصار المفصل، ويقرأ فى العشاء بالشمس وضحاها وأشباهها، ويقرأ في الصبح بسورتين طويلتين.
Nasai narrated it (982) (983), and this is his wording, and Ibn Majah (827) in an abridged form, both of them through Dahhak bin Uthman, from Bukayr bin Abdullah bin Ashaj, from Sulayman bin Yasar, from Abu Hurairah, who then related the hadith.Its chain is hasan because of Dahhak bin Uthman, since his hadith is hasan. Ibn Khuzayma graded it sahih and included it in his Sahih (520), as did Ibn Hibban (1837) and Ahmad (8366), all of them through this same route.In it, Abu Hurairah says, "I have not seen anyone whose prayer more closely resembled that of the Messenger of Allah than so-and-so," referring to a governor who was in Madinah.Sulayman bin Yasar says, "So I prayed behind him, and he would lengthen the first two units and shorten the last two, and he would shorten Asr. In Maghrib he would recite from the shorter chapters of the Mufassal in the first two units, in Isha from the middle-length chapters of the Mufassal in the first two units, and in Fajr from the longer chapters of the Mufassal."I have not been able to determine the name of this governor. It has been said that his name was Amr bin Salama, and he is not Umar bin Abdul-Aziz, as will come later in the hadith of Dahhak bin Uthman, for Umar bin Abdul-Aziz was born after the death of Abu Hurairah.