Arabic (Original)
حَدَّثَنَا حَسَنٌ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا زُهَيْرٌ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ الْأَسْوَدَ بْنَ يَزِيدَ عَمَّا حَدَّثَتْهُ عَائِشَةُ عَنْ صَلَاةِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَتْ كَانَ يَنَامُ أَوَّلَ اللَّيْلِ وَيُحْيِي آخِرَهُ ثُمَّ إِنْ كَانَتْ لَهُ حَاجَةٌ إِلَى أَهْلِهِ قَضَى حَاجَتَهُ ثُمَّ قَامَ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَمَسَّ مَاءً فَإِذَا كَانَ عِنْدَ النِّدَاءِ الْأَوَّلِ قَالَتْ وَثَبَ وَلَا وَاللَّهِ مَا قَالَتْ قَامَ فَأَفَاضَ عَلَيْهِ الْمَاءَ وَلَا وَاللَّهِ مَا قَالَتْ اغْتَسَلَ وَأَنَا أَعْلَمُ بِمَا تُرِيدُ وَإِنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ جُنُبًا تَوَضَّأَ وُضُوءَ الرَّجُلِ لِلصَّلَاةِ ثُمَّ صَلَّى الرَّكْعَتَيْنِ.
English Translation
Hasan told us: Zuhayr told us, from Abu Ishaq, who said: I asked al-Aswad ibn Yazid about what A'ishah had told him concerning the prayer of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him. She said: he used to sleep in the early part of the night and stay awake in prayer in its latter part. Then, if he had a need for his wife, he would fulfill his need, then get up before touching water. When the first call came, she said, he would spring up - and by Allah she did not say he got up and poured water over himself, and by Allah she did not say he performed the greater ablution - and I know best what you mean - and if he was not in a state of major impurity, he would perform ablution as a man does for prayer, then pray the two rak'ahs.