The sun was eclipsed during the time of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ on the day his son Ibrahim died. The people said, "The eclipse occurred because of the death of Ibrahim."So the Prophet ﷺ stood and led the people in a prayer of six bowings and four prostrations. He began by saying the takbir, then recited a long recitation, then bowed for nearly as long as he had stood. Then he raised his head from the bowing and recited a recitation shorter than the first, then bowed for nearly as long as he had stood. Then he raised his head from the bowing and recited a recitation shorter than the second, then bowed for nearly as long as he had stood. Then he raised his head from the bowing, then went down into prostration and prostrated twice. Then he stood and performed three more bowings, each one shorter than the one before it, and his bowing was nearly as long as his prostration.Then he stepped backward, and the rows behind him also stepped back, until we reached the very end. (Abu Bakr said, "Until he reached the women.") Then he stepped forward, and the people stepped forward with him, until he was back in his original place. He concluded the prayer when the sun had become bright again.Then he said, "People, the sun and the moon are two of the signs of Allah. They do not eclipse for the death of anyone." (Abu Bakr said, "For the death of any human.") "When you see anything of that, then pray until it clears. There is nothing you have been promised that I have not seen in this prayer of mine. The Fire was brought near, and that is when you saw me step backward, fearing its scorching heat would touch me. I even saw in it the owner of the hooked staff dragging his intestines in the Fire. He used to steal from the pilgrims with his hooked staff. If he was noticed, he would say, 'It just got caught on my staff,' and if he was not noticed, he would make off with it. And I saw in it the woman who tied up her cat and did not feed it, nor did she let it go so it could eat from the creatures of the earth, until it died of hunger.Then Paradise was brought near, and that is when you saw me step forward to my place. I stretched out my hand wanting to take some of its fruit so that you could look at it, then it occurred to me not to do so. There is nothing you have been promised that I have not seen in this prayer of mine."
انكسفت الشمس في عهد رسول الله ﷺ يوم مات إبراهيم بن رسول الله ﷺ، فقال الناس: إنما انكسفت لموت إبراهيم، فقام النبي ﷺ فصلى بالناس ست ركعات بأربع سجدات، بدا فكبر، ثم قرأ فأطال القراءة، ثم ركع نحوا مما قام. ثم رفع رأسه من الركوع فقرأ قراءة دون القراءة الأولي، ثم ركع نحوا مما قام، ثم رفع رأسه من الركوع فقرأ قراءة دون الثانية، ثم ركع نحوا مما قام، ثم رفع رأسه من الركوع. ثم انحدر بالسجود فسجد سجدتين، ثم قام فركع أيضا ثلاث ركعات، ليس فيها ركعة إلا التي قبلها أطول من التي بعدها، وركوعه نحوا من سجوده، ثم تأخر وتأخرت الصفوف خلفه، حتى انتهينا. ( وقال أبو بكر: حتى انتهى إلى النساء) ثم تقدم وتقدم الناس معه، حتى قام في مقامه، فانصرف حين انصرف، وقد أضت الشمس، فقال: يا أيها الناس! إنما الشمس والقمر آيتان من آيات الله، وإنهما لا ينكسفان لموت أحد من الناس( وقال أبو بكر: لموت بشر) فإذا رأيتم شيئا من ذلك فصلوا حتى تنجلي، ما من شيء توعدونه إلا قد رأيته في صلاتي هذه، لقد جيء بالنار، وذلكم حين رأيتموني تأخرت مخافة أن يصيبني من لفحها، وحتى رأيت فيها صاحب المحجن يجر قصبه في النار، كان يسرق الحاج بمحجنه، فإن فطن له قال: إنما تعلق بمحجني، وإن غفل عنه، ذهب به، وحتى رأيت فيها صاحبة الهرة التي ربطتها فلم تطعمها، ولم تدعها تأكل من خشاش الأرض حتى ماتت جوعا، ثم بالجنة، وذلكم حين رأيتموني تقدمت حتى في مقامي، ولقد مددت يدي وأنا أريد أن أتناول من ثمرها لتنظروا إليه، ثم بدا لي أن لا أفعل، فما من شيء توعدونه إلا قد رأيته في صلاتي هذه.
Muslim narrated it in the chapter on the eclipse (10/904) through several routes from Abdullah bin Numayr, who said, Abdul-Malik narrated to us, from Ata, from Jabir, who said, and he narrated it. Except for his saying, "He led the people in prayer with six rakats and four prostrations," which is irregular.Abdul-Malik is Ibn Abu Sulayman, and although he was trustworthy in himself, he sometimes erred in his narration from Ata bin Abu Rabah, as Imam Ahmad and others have said. This is one of the instances in which he erred, in his saying "three rakats," meaning three bowings within each rakah. This is because the sahih and preserved report from Jabir is what Hisham Dastawai narrated, saying, Abu Zubayr narrated to us, from Jabir, in which it states that his prayer ﷺ consisted of four rakats with four prostrations.Or perhaps the error came from Ata bin Abu Rabah himself, for he narrated it this way from Jabir, and likewise narrated it from Ayesha, as in the hadith that follows, since he changed in his old age and became forgetful.His saying, "and the sun had returned," means it returned to its original state before the eclipse. It comes from the verb ada, yaidu, meaning "to return," from which comes the word aydan ("also"), which is a verbal noun derived from it.