Yahya ibn Yahya narrated to us, saying: I recited to Malik, from Ibn Shihab, from al-Sa'ib ibn Yazid, from al-Muttalib ibn Abi Wada'a al-Sahmi, from Hafsa, that she said: "I never saw the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, pray his voluntary prayers while seated, until one year before his death. Then he would pray his voluntary prayers while seated, and he would recite a surah and recite it slowly and deliberately, until it became longer than the longest of them."