The Prophet ﷺ recited aloud during the eclipse prayer. When he finished his recitation, he said the takbir and bowed. When he rose from bowing, he said, "Allah hears the one who praises Him. Our Lord, to You belongs all praise." Then he resumed the recitation. In the eclipse prayer there were four bowings within two units, and four prostrations.
جهر النبي الله ﷺ في صلاة الخسوف بقراءته، فإذا الله لمن فرغ من قراءته كبر فركع، وإذا رفع من الركعة قال: سمع حمده، ربنا ولك الحمد ثم يعاود القراءة في صلاة الكسوف أربع ركعات في ركعتين، وأربع سجدات.
Bukhari narrated it in the Book of Eclipses (1065), and Muslim in the Book of Eclipses (5/901), both from Muhammad bin Mihran, who said, Walid narrated to us, saying, Ibn Numayr informed us, he heard Ibn Shihab, from Urwa, from Ayesha, and he related it. The wording is Bukhari's, and Muslim's wording is abbreviated.Bukhari said, Uzai and others said, I heard Zuhri, from Urwa, from Ayesha, may Allah be pleased with her, that the sun eclipsed during the time of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, so he sent a caller announcing, "The prayer is being gathered." He then came forward and prayed four rakats within two rakats, and four prostrations. He said, and Abdul-Rahman bin Numayr informed me, he heard Ibn Shihab relate the same.Zuhri said, I said, "What did your brother, Abdullah bin Zubayr, do? He only prayed two rakats, like the dawn prayer, when he led the prayer in Madinah." He said, "Yes, he erred regarding the sunnah." Sufyan bin Husayn and Sulayman bin Kathir followed him in this, from Zuhri, regarding the recitation being aloud. End of quote.I say, the hadith of Sufyan bin Husayn was narrated by Tirmidhi (563), and Ibn Khuzayma (1379), both through the route of Ibrahim bin Sadaqa, from Sufyan bin Husayn. Tirmidhi abbreviated it to his saying, "The Prophet ﷺ performed the eclipse prayer and recited aloud in it." He said, hasan sahih. Ibn Khuzayma narrated it in full detail.Ibn Numayr's name is Abdul-Rahman. He was from Damascus. Duhaym, Dhahli, Ibn Barqi and others deemed him reliable, while Ibn Main deemed him daif because no one narrated from him except Walid, and he has no other hadith in the Sahihayn besides this one. Uzai and others corroborated him on it, as noted in Fath al-Bari.I say, the hadith of Uzai and others was narrated in full by Muslim in the Book of Eclipses (4/901) from Muhammad bin Mihran Razi, Walid bin Muslim narrated to us, saying, Uzai Abu Amr and others said, I heard Ibn Shihab Zuhri relate, from Urwa, from Ayesha, that the sun eclipsed during the time of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, so he sent a caller, "The prayer is being gathered." They gathered and he came forward, and he prayed four rakats within two rakats, and four prostrations. However, Uzai did not mention the aloud recitation here, but only stated the eclipse of the sun, while Abdul-Rahman bin Numayr stated the aloud recitation but did not state the eclipse of the sun. The hadith is one, and each narrator mentioned a part of it. When these parts are combined, it becomes known that the aloud recitation occurred during the eclipse of the sun, that is, during the day. This refutes those who interpreted it as pertaining to the eclipse of the moon, on the grounds that aloud recitation in daytime prayer has not been established.Meanwhile, Abu Dawud (1188) narrated through another route from Uzai, in which the aloud recitation is explicitly stated. He narrated it from Abbas bin Walid bin Mazid, from his father, from Uzai, Zuhri informed me, Urwa informed me, from Ayesha, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ recited a lengthy recitation and recited it aloud, meaning in the eclipse prayer. Through this same route, Hakim narrated it (1/334), and Bayhaqi narrated it from him (3/336). Hakim said, "sahih according to the criterion of the two sheikhs."I say, Imam Ahmad, Ishaq bin Rahawayh, and a group of the people of hadith held this view, saying that the recitation is aloud in the eclipse prayer.As for what Daraqutni (1/64) and Bayhaqi (3/336) narrated through the route of Saeed bin Hafs, the maternal uncle of Nufayli, Musa bin Ayun narrated to us, from Ishaq bin Rashid, from Zuhri, from Urwa, from Ayesha, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to pray four rakats and four prostrations during the eclipse of the sun and the moon, reciting in the first rakat from Ankabut or Rum, and in the second from "Ya Sin", this is the wording given by Daraqutni, while Bayhaqi's wording is, he recited in the first from Ankabut, and in the second from Luqman or Rum, this is daif.Ibn Qattan said, "Saeed bin Hafs, the maternal uncle of Nufayli, I do not know his standing."