The Messenger of Allah ﷺ came out to us for one of the evening prayers carrying Hasan or Husayn. The Prophet ﷺ went forward, placed the child down, then said the takbir and began the prayer. During the prayer, he made one prostration that he prolonged greatly.Ubayy said, "I raised my head and saw the boy on the back of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ while he was prostrating, so I returned to my prostration."When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ finished the prayer, the people said, "Messenger of Allah, you made a prostration during your prayer that you prolonged so much that we thought something had happened, or that revelation was being sent down to you."He replied, "None of that occurred. Rather, my son had mounted my back, and I disliked rushing him until he finished what he wanted."
خرج علينا رسول الله ﷺ في إحدى صلاتي العشاء، وهو حامل حسنا أو حسينا، فتقدم النبي ﷺ فوضعه، ثم كبر للصلاة فصلي، فسجد بين ظهراني صلاته سجدة أطالها، قال أبي: فرفعت رأسي، وإذا الصبي على ظهر رسول الله ﷺ وهو ساجد، فرجعت إلى سجودي، فلما قضى رسول الله ﷺ الصلاة، قال الناس: يا رسول الله! إنك سجدت بين ظهراني صلاتك سجدة أطلتها حتى ظننا أنه قد حدث أمر، أو أنه يوحى إليك؟ قال: فكل ذلك لم يكن، ولكن ابني ارتحلني، فكرهت أن أعجله حتى يقضي حاجته.
Nasai (1141) reported it, saying, Abdul-Rahman bin Muhammad bin Salam informed us, he said, Yazid bin Harun narrated to us, he said, Jareer bin Hazim narrated to us, he said, Muhammad bin Abu Yaqub Basri narrated to us, from Abdullah bin Shaddad, from his father, and he mentioned the hadith. Its chain is sahih, and Hakim also graded it sahih (3/165-166) after reporting it through the route of Jareer bin Hazim, saying, sahih according to the conditions of the two Shaykhs.