English Translation

Musa b. Dawud told us: Nafi' — meaning Ibn Umar — told us, from Ibn Abi Mulaykah, from Asma' bint Abi Bakr, who said: The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) prayed during the eclipse. She said: He prolonged the standing, then bowed and prolonged the bowing, then stood and prolonged the standing, then bowed and prolonged the bowing, then raised up and prolonged the standing, then prostrated and prolonged the prostration, then raised up, then prostrated and prolonged the prostration, then stood and prolonged the standing, then bowed and prolonged the bowing, then raised up and prolonged the standing, then bowed and prolonged the bowing, then raised up, then prostrated and prolonged the prostration, then raised up, then prostrated and prolonged the prostration, then he finished, and said, 'Paradise was brought close to me, so much so that if I had dared, I would have brought you a cluster from its clusters; and the Fire was brought close to me, so much so that I said, "O Lord, am I among them?" And there was a woman' — Nafi' said, I think he said — 'being scratched by a cat. I said, "What is the matter with this one?" It was said to me, "She confined it until it died — she neither fed it nor released it to eat from the vermin of the earth."'