Majma al-Zawaid — Hadith 2790

In another narration of his, the words are: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to make the recitation and standing equal in all four rak'ahs, except that he would make the first rak'ah longer than the others so that more people could gather. Whenever he went into prostration and whenever he went into bowing, he would say the takbir, and when he rose after sitting following two rak'ahs, he would also say the takbir at that time. All these narrations were recorded by Imam Ahmad, and Imam al-Tabarani recorded some of them in al-Mu'jam al-Kabir; the chains of all of them contain Shahr bin Hawshab, about whom there is some criticism, and he is thiqah (trustworthy), if Allah wills.