Volume 2, Book 21, Number 249:
Narrated ‘Aisha:
I did not see the Prophet reciting (the Quran) in the night prayer while sitting except when he be –
came old; when he used to recite while sitting, and when thirty or forty verses remained from the
Sura, he would get up and recite them and then bow.
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