Volume Two: 2:249: 'Aisha: I did not see the Prophet reciting (the Quran) in the night prayer ...

Hadith 2:249

Narrated 'Aisha:

I did not see the Prophet reciting (the Quran) in the night prayer while sitting except when he became old; when he used to recite while sitting, and when thirty or forty verses remained from the Sura, he would get up and recite them and then bow.