Shayban ibn Farrukh narrated to us: Abu 'Awanah narrated to us, from Mansur, from al-Walid Abu Bishr, from Abu al-Siddiq al-Naji, from Abu Sa'id al-Khudri, that the Prophet (peace be upon him) used to recite in the noon prayer (Zuhr) in the first two rak'ahs, in each rak'ah, the equivalent of thirty verses, and in the last two, the equivalent of fifteen verses—or he said: half of that. And in the afternoon prayer ('Asr), in the first two rak'ahs, in each rak'ah, the equivalent of the recitation of fifteen verses, and in the last two, the equivalent of half of that.