Muwatta Malik

Yahya related to me from Malik from Hisham ibn Urwa that his father heard Abdullah ibn Amir ibn Rabia say, ""We prayed subh behind Umar ibn al-Khattab and he recited suraYusuf (Sura 12) and surat al- Hajj (Sura 22) slowly."" I (Hisham's father) said, ""By Allah, then it must have been his habit to get up at the crack of dawn."" He said, ""Of course