The people said: "The sun eclipsed only because of the death of Ibrahim." So the Prophet ﷺ stood up and led the people in prayer, performing six bowings in four prostrations: he said the takbir, then recited and lengthened the recitation, then bowed for nearly as long as he had stood, then raised his head and recited a recitation shorter than the first, then bowed for nearly as long as he had stood, then raised his head and recited a third recitation shorter than the second, then bowed for nearly as long as he had stood, then raised his head and went down for prostration, prostrating twice. Then he stood and performed three bowings before prostrating, in which no bowing was longer than the one before it, except that his bowing was nearly as long as his standing. He said: Then he stepped back during his prayer, and the rows stepped back with him; then he stepped forward and stood in his place, and the rows stepped forward. He completed the prayer while the sun had already emerged, then said: "O people, the sun and the moon are two signs among the signs of Allah, Mighty and Majestic; they do not eclipse due to the death of any human. So if you see anything of that, pray until it clears." And he continued with the rest of the hadith.

(1) Its narrators are trustworthy, but it is defective. 'Abd al-Malik — and he is Ibn Abi Sulayman, although he is trustworthy and his hadith is in Sahih Muslim — was contradicted in his narration by Hisham al-Dastawa'i, from Abu al-Zubayr, from Jabir, also in Muslim, and his narration will come from the author in the following hadith, in which he said: "Four bowings in four prostrations." For this reason al-Shafi'i said: "This is a version we consider — and Allah knows best — to be an error." Al-Bayhaqi commented on al-Shafi'i's statement: "By the error he meant the hadith of 'Abd al-Malik ibn Abi Sulayman, for Ibn Jurayj contradicted him and narrated it from 'Ata', from 'Ubayd ibn 'Umayr." Ahmad ibn Hanbal said: "I rule in favor of Ibn Jurayj over 'Abd al-Malik regarding the hadith of 'Ata'." Ibn al-Qayyim said in Zad al-Ma'ad 1/454: "We found the narration of Hisham more worthy," meaning that in each rak'ah there are only two bowings, because he was with Abu al-Zubayr more precise than 'Abd al-Malik, and because his narration agrees in the number of bowings with the narration of 'Amrah and 'Urwah from 'A'ishah, the narration of Kathir ibn 'Abbas and 'Ata' ibn Yasar from Ibn 'Abbas, and the narration of Abu Salamah from 'Abdullah ibn 'Amr, and then the narration of Yahya ibn Sulaym and others. Then he also declared it defective on the same grounds as al-Bayhaqi.