English Translation

Rawh told us: Ibn Jurayj told us: Mansur b. Abd al-Rahman told us, from his mother Safiyyah bint Shaybah, from Asma' bint Abi Bakr, who said: The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) was alarmed on the day the sun was eclipsed, and he took up a coat of mail until he caught up his cloak with it, and he stood with the people in a long standing, standing then bowing, such that if a person had come after the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) had bowed, he would not have known that he had bowed — he would not have imagined that he had bowed — because of the length of the standing. She said: I began looking at the woman who was older than me and at the woman who was more sickly than me, standing, and I was more entitled to bear the long standing than she.