(al-Bukhārī and Muslim) and he used to say: "I enter the prayer intending to prolong it, but I hear the crying of the child, so I shorten my prayer because I know the intensity of the mother's distress from his crying." He would begin from the start of the sūrah and complete it in most of his cases (Ibn Abī Shaybah and Aḥmad) and he would say: "Give each sūrah its due share of bowing and prostration" (Ibn Naṣr and al-Ṭaḥāwī with a sound isnād). In another wording: "For each sūrah, a rakʿah" (Aḥmad and Abū Yaʿlá). Sometimes he would divide it over two rakʿahs, and sometimes he would repeat it entirely in the second rakʿah, and occasionally he would combine two or more sūrahs in a single rakʿah