  We present the timing and spectral properties of the transient Be/X-ray
binary pulsar 3A 0535+262 during quiescence using three observations with the
narrow field imaging instruments (NFI) of BeppoSAX. Assuming a distance of 2
kpc for this system, the 2-10 keV X-ray luminosities measured from the three
observations are in the range of 1.5-4.0 $\times$ 10$^{33}$ erg s$^{-1}$,
indicating a very low rate of accretion. We report the detection of pulsations
at a very low luminosity of 2 $\times$ 10$^{33}$ erg s$^{-1}$ during one of the
three observations, though at this accretion rate the system is expected to be
in the centrifugally inhibited regime. The X-ray spectra for the unpulsed
observations are best modeled as power law type while a combined model of power
law and black-body is required to fit the pulsed spectrum.
