Section: He says in his prostration what he says in the prostration of the prayer (21). [Ahmad explicitly stated this. If he says what was narrated from the Prophet - peace and blessings of Allah be upon him - Aisha said] (22), may Allah be pleased with her: The Prophet - peace and blessings of Allah be upon him - used to say in the prostration of the Qur'an at night: "My face has prostrated to the One who created it, fashioned it, and brought forth its hearing and its sight by His might and His power" (23). Al-Tirmidhi said: This is a hasan sahih (good authentic) hadith. [And al-Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah narrated] (24) from Ibn Abbas, may Allah be pleased with them both, who said: A man came to the Prophet - peace and blessings of Allah be upon him - and said: O Messenger of Allah, I saw myself tonight praying behind a tree. I recited the sajdah (verse of prostration), so I prostrated, and the tree prostrated along with my prostration. I heard it saying: "O Allah, record for me by it a reward with You, remove from me by it a sin, store it for me with You as a treasure, and accept it from me as You accepted it from Your servant Dawud." The Prophet - peace and blessings of Allah be upon him - then recited a sajdah and prostrated. Ibn Abbas said: I heard him saying the same as what the man had told him regarding what the tree said. Al-Tirmidhi said: This is a gharib (rare) hadith. Whatever he says of this and its like (25) is good.

207 - Issue: He said: (And he performs the taslim [salutation] when he rises).

There is a difference of opinion narrated from Ahmad regarding the taslim in the prostration of recitation (tilawah). He held the view that it is obligatory. This is also the view of Abu Qilaba and Abu Abd al-Rahman (1), based on the saying of the Prophet - peace and blessings of Allah be upon him -: "Its prohibition is the takbir, and its release is the taslim (2)." Also, because it is a prayer that has an opening (ihram), it requires a salutation, like other prayers. The second narration is that there is no taslim in it. This is the view of al-Nakha'i, al-Hasan, Sa'id ibn Jubayr, and Yahya ibn Waththab. It was also narrated from Abu Hanifah. There is a difference of opinion regarding it in the view of al-Shafi'i. Ahmad said: As for the taslim, I do not know what it is. This is because no salutation was reported from the Prophet - peace and blessings of Allah be upon him - regarding it, for it has no tashahhud, so a salutation was not legislated for it, unlike the prayer. One taslim is sufficient for him. This is the view of Ishaq, who said: And he says, "Peace be upon you." Al-Qadi said: One taslim is sufficient for him according to one narration. He mentioned in "al-Mujarrad" from Abu Bakr that there is a second narration that it is not sufficient except with two [taslims]. The correct view is the first, because it is a prayer that has no tashahhud in it, so what is legislated for it is one taslim, like the funeral prayer, and it does not require a tashahhud. Ahmad explicitly stated this, because it was not reported from the Prophet - peace and blessings of Allah be upon him - nor from any of his companions.