Chapter: It is recommended to pray two rak`ah for the sunnah of Fajr. And encouragement to pray them regularly, and to make them brief, and to persist in offering them, and clarifying what is recommended to recite therein
Ibn 'Umar reported that Hafsa, the Mother of the Believers, informed him that when the Mu'adhdhin became silent after calling (people) to the dawn prayer, the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) commenced the dawn (prayer) when it dawned by observing two short rak'ahs before the commencement of the (Fard) prayer.
This hadith has been transmitted by Nafi' with the same chain of narrators.
Hafsa reported that when it was dawn, the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) did not observe (any other prayers) but two short rak'ahs.
A hadith like this has been narrated by Shu'ba with the same chain of transmitters.
Hafsa reported: When the dawn appeared, the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) observed two rak'ahs (of Sunnah prayers).
A'isha reported: The Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) used to observe two rak'ahs of Sunnah (prayer) when he heard the Adhin and shortened them.
This hadith has been narrated by the same chain of transmitters and in the hadith narrated by Usama the words are: When it was dawn .
A'isha reported that the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) used to observe two (supererogatory) rak'ahs in between the call to prayer and the Iqama of the dawn prayer.
A'isha reported that the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) observed two rak'ahs of the dawn prayer and he shortened them (to the extent) that I (out of surprise) said: Did he recite in them Surah Fatiha (only)?
A'isha reported: When it was dawn, the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) observed two rak'ahs, and I would say: Does he recite only the opening chapter of the Qur'an in it?
A'isha reported that the Apostle ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) was not so much particular about observing supererogatory rak'ahs as in case of the two rak'ahs of the dawn prayer.
A'isha reported: I have never seen the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) hastening as much in observing supererogatory as two rak'ahs before the (Fard) of the dawn prayer.
A'isha reported Allah's Messenger as saying: The two rak'ahs at dawn are better than this world and what it contains.
A'isha reported that the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said about the two (supererogatory) rak'ahs of the dawn: They are dearer to me than the whole world.
Abu Huraira reported that the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) recited in the two (supererogatory) rak'ahs of the dawn (prayer): Say: O unbelievers, (Qur'an, cix.) and Say: Allah is one (cxii.).
Ibn 'Abbas reported that the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) used to recite in first of the two (supererogatory) rak'ahs of the dawn: Say: We believed in Allah and what was revealed to us... verse 136 from Surah Baqara, and in the second of the two: I believe in Allah and I bear testimony that we are Muslims (iii. 52).
Ibn 'Abbas reported that the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) used to recite in the two (supererogatory) rak'ahs of the dawn prayer: Say: We believed in Allah and what was revealed to us and that which is found in Surah Al-i-'lmran: Come to that word (creed) which is common between you and us (iii. 64).
This hadith has been transmitted by another chain of narrators.