Arabic (Original)
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ حَدَّثَنِي عَمْرُو بْنُ أَبِي حَكِيمٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ الزِّبْرِقَانَ يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ عُرْوَةَ بْنِ الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ ثَابِتٍ قَالَ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يُصَلِّي الظُّهْرَ بِالْهَاجِرَةِ وَلَمْ يَكُنْ يُصَلِّي صَلَاةً أَشَدَّ عَلَى أَصْحَابِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مِنْهَا قَالَ فَنَزَلَتْ { حَافِظُوا عَلَى الصَّلَوَاتِ وَالصَّلَاةِ الْوُسْطَى } وَقَالَ إِنَّ قَبْلَهَا صَلَاتَيْنِ وَبَعْدَهَا صَلَاتَيْنِ.
English Translation
Muhammad ibn Ja'far told us: Shu'ba told us: Amr ibn Abi Hakim told me, he said: I heard al-Zibriqan narrate, from Urwa ibn al-Zubayr, from Zayd ibn Thabit, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, used to pray the noon prayer in the intense midday heat, and he never prayed a prayer that was harder on the Companions of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, than it. He said: So it was revealed: "Guard strictly the prayers, and the middle prayer," and he said: "Before it are two prayers and after it are two prayers."