CHAPTER: How Many Places Are There In The Qur’an Where Prostration Is Required.
Narrated Amr ibn al-As: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم taught me fifteen prostrations while reciting the Quran, including three in al-Mufassal and two in Surah al-Hajj. Abu Dawud said: Abu al-Darda has reported eleven prostrations from the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم, but chain of this tradition is weak.
Narrated Uqbah ibn Amir: I said to the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم: Are there two prostrations in Surah al-Hajj? He replied: Yes; if anyone does not make two prostrations, he should not recite them.
Narrated Zaid bin Thabit: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم did not make prostration at any verse in al-Mufassal from the time he moved to Madina.
This tradition has also been transmitted by Zaid bin Thabit through a different chain of narrators to the same effect. Abu Dawud said: Zaid was imam (in a prayer) and he did not make prostration.