Abu Saeed Al Khudri said: We used to estimate how long the Messenger of Allah ﷺ stood in the noon and the afternoon prayer, and we estimated that he stood in the first two rak’ahs of the noon prayer as long as it takes to recite thirty verses (of the Quran), such as A-L-M Tanzil al-Sajdah. And we estimated that he stood in the last two rak’ahs half the time he stood in the first two rak’ahs. We estimated that he stood in the first two rak’ahs of the afternoon prayer as long as he did in the last two at noon; and we estimated that he stood in the last two rak’ahs of the afternoon prayer half the time he did in first two.

This tradition has also been transmitted through a different chain of narrators by Jabir bin Abdullah. This version adds: He (the Prophet) turned to the people and said: When one of you comes (on Friday) while the imam is preaching, he should pray two rak'ahs and make them short.

Narrated ath-Thalabb: On the authority of his father: A man emancipated his share in a slave. The Prophet ﷺ did not put the responsibility on him to emancipate the rest. Ahmad said: The name Ibn al-Thalabb is to be pronounced with a ta' (and not with tha). As Shubah could not pronounce ta, he said tha.