The hypocrites' prayer: sitting till the sun pales

Malik relates from al-Ala ibn Abd al-Rahman who said: we entered on Anas ibn Malik after noon and he rose to pray the afternoon prayer; when he finished we mentioned hastening the prayer or he mentioned it, then he said: I heard the Prophet say three times: that is the prayer of the hypocrites — one of them sits until the sun pales and is between the shaytan's horns or upon his horn, then rises and performs four barely remembering God ¹ Muwatta 586.

In this hadith prayer at the shaytan's horn-times is the prayer of the hypocrites; it is a prayer of show without sincerity ¹.

Among the texts of hypocrisy in the Muwatta; this browser shows it in the devils section ¹.