Hadith #601 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
the Imam is appointed only to be followed ; so when he prays standing, pray standing, and when he bows, bow; when he raises himself, raise yourselves; when he says âAllah listen to him who praises Himâ, âOur Lord ! to Thee be the praiseâ: and when he prays sitting all of you pray sitting.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #602 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The Messenger of Allah (ï·º) rode a horse in Medina. It threw him off at the root of a date-palm. His foot was injured. We visited him to inquire about his illness. We found him praying sitting in the apartment of Aisha. We, therefore, stood, (praying) behind him. He kept silent. We again visited him to inquire about his illness. He offered the obligatory prayer sitting. We, therefore, stood (praying) behind him; he made a sign to us and we sat down. When he finished the prayer, he said: When th
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #603 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The Prophet (ï·º) said: The imam is appointed only to be followed; when he says âAllah is most great,â say âAllah is most greatâ and do not say âAllah is most greatâ until he says âAllah is most great.â When he bows; bow; and do not bow until he bows. And when he says âAllah listens to him who praise Him,â say âO Allah, our Lord, to Thee be the praise.â The version recorded by Muslim goes: âAnd to Thee be the praise: And when he prostrate; and do not prostrate until he
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #604 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The Prophet (ï·º) said: The imam is appointed only to be followed. This version adds: When he recites (the Qurâan), keep silent.â Abu Dawud said: The addition of the words âWhen he recites, keep silentâ in this version are not guarded. The misunderstanding, according to us, is on the part of Abu Khalid (a narrator).
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #605 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The IMAM is appointed only to be followed; so when he prays standing. Pray standing ; and when he raises himself, raise yourself: and when he prays sitting. Pray sitting.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #606 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
when the prophet (ï·º) became seriously ill, we prayed behind him while he was sitting and Abu Bakr was calling âAllah is most great â to cause the people to hear the TAKBIR. Then he (the narrators) narrated the rest of the tradition.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #607 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
Messenger of Allah, our Imam is ill. He said : When he prays sitting, pray sitting. Abu Dawud said : The chain of this tradition is not continuous (muttasil)
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #608 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The Messenger of Allah (ï·º) entered upon Umm Haram. The people (in her house) brought some cooking oil dates to him. He said; Put it (dates) back in its container and return it (cooking oil) to its bag, because I am keeping fast. He then stood and led us in prayer two Rakâahs of supererogatory prayer. Then Umm Sulaim and Umm Haram stood behind us (i.e., the men). Thabit (the narrator) said: I understand that Anas said; he (the prophet) made me stand on his right side.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #609 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The Messenger of Allah (ï·º) led him and one of their women in prayer. He (the prophet) put him on his right side and the woman behind him (Anas)
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #610 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
when I was spending a night in the house of my maternal aunt Maimunah, the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) got up at night, opened the mouth of the water skin and performed ablution. He then closed the mouth of the water-skin and stood for prayer. Then I got up and performed ablution as he did ; then I came and stood on his left side. He took my hand, turned me round behind his back and set me on his right side; and I prayed along with him.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #611 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
âHe took my head or the hair of my head and made me stand on his right sideâ.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #612 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
Get up, I shall lead you in prayer. Anas said: I got up and took a mat which had become black on account of long use. I then washed it with water. The Messenger of Allah (ï·º) stood upon it. I and the orphan (Ibn Abi Dumairah, the freed slave of the prophet) stood in a row behind him. The old women stood behind us. He then led us in two rakaâat of prayer and left.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #613 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
Alqamah and al-Aswad sought permission from Abdullah (ibn Masâud) for admission, and we remained sitting at his door for a long time. A slave-girl came out and gave them permission (to enter). He (Ibn Masâud) then got up and prayed (standing) between me (al-Aswad) and him (Alqamah). He then said: I witnessed the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) doing similarly.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #614 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
Jabir ibn Yazid ibn al-Aswad reported on the authority of his father: I prayed behind the Messenger of Allah (ï·º). When he finished the prayer, he would turn (his face from the direction of the Kaâbah).
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #615 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
When we would pray behind the Messenger of Allah (ï·º), we liked to be on his right side. He (the Prophet) would sit turning his face towards us (and back towards the Kaâbah) (ï·º).
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #616 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The Prophet (ï·º) said: The Imam should not pray at the place where he led the prayer until he removes (from there). Abu Dawud said: âAtaâ al-Khurasani did not see Mughirah b. Shuâbah (This tradition is, therefore munqatiâ, i.e. a link is missing in the chain).
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #617 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The Prophet (ï·º) said: When the Imam completes the prayer and sits (for reciting tashahhud), and then becomes defiled (i.e. his ablution becomes void) before he speaks (to someone), his prayer becomes complete. And those who prayed behind him also complete the prayer.
Grade: Da'if

Hadith #618 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The Prophet (ï·º) said: The key of prayer is purification; takbir (saying âAllah is most greatâ) makes (all acts which break prayer) unlawful and taslim (uttering the salutation) makes (all such acts) lawful.
Grade: Hasan Sahih

Hadith #619 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The Prophet (ï·º) said: Do not try to outstrip me in bowing and prostrating because however earlier I bow you will join me when I raise (my head from bowing); I have become bulky.
Grade: Hasan Sahih

Hadith #620 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
Al-Bara who is not a liar said; when they (the companions) raised their heads from bowing along with the Messenger of Allah (ï·º), they would stand up, and when they saw him that he went down in prostration, they would prostrate (following the prophet).
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #621 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
Al-Bara b.âAzib said ; we used to pray along with the prophet (ï·º); none of us bowed his back until he saw that the prophet (ï·º) bowed (his back).
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #622 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
then they would follow him (ï·º)
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #623 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
Abu Hurairah reported the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) as saying; Does he who raises his head while the Imam is prostrating not fear that Allah may change his head into a donkeyâs or his face into a donkeyâs face.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #624 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The prophet (ï·º) persuaded them to say prayer in congregation and prohibited them to leave before he goes away from the prayer.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #625 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
Does every one of you has two garment?
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #626 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
None of you should pray in a single garment of which no part comes over the shoulders.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #627 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
if anyone prays in a single piece of cloth, he should cross the two ends.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #628 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
I saw the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) praying girded with a single (piece of) cloth, place its two ends over his shoulders.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #629 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
We came to the Prophet (ï·º), and a man came and said: Prophet of Allah, what do you say if one prays in a single garment? The Messenger of Allah (ï·º) then took off his wrapper and combined it with his sheet, and put it on them. He got up and the Prophet of Allah (ï·º) led us in prayer. When he finished the prayer, he said: Does every one of you have two garments?
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #630 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
I saw the people tying their wrappers over their necks like children due to the narrowness of the wrappers behind the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) during prayer. Someone said: Body of women, do not raise your heads until the men raise (their heads).
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #631 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
âAâishah said; the prophet (ï·º) prayed in a single (piece of) cloth whose one part was upon me.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #632 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
I said: Messenger of Allah, I am a man who goes out hunting; may I pray in a single shirt? He replied: Yes, but fasten it even if it should be with a thorn.
Grade: Hasan

Hadith #633 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
I witnesses the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) praying in a shirt.
Grade: Da'if

Hadith #634 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
we came to Jabir b. âAbd Allah. He said : I (Jabir) accompanied the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) in a battle. He got up to pray. I had a sheet of cloth upon me, and I began to cross both the ends, but they did not reach (my shoulders). It had fringes which I turned over and crossed the two ends, and bowed down retaining it with my neck lest it should fall down. Then I came and stood on the left side of the Messenger of Allah (ï·º). He then took and brought me around him and set me on his right sid
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #635 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
if one of you has two (piece of) cloth, he should pray in them; if he has a single (piece of) cloth, he should use it as a wrapper, and should not hang it upon the shoulder like the Jews.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #636 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The Messenger of Allah (ï·º) prohibited us to pray in a sheet of cloth without crossing both its ends, and he also prohibited us to pray in a wrapper without putting on a sheet.
Grade: Hasan

Hadith #637 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
I heard the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) say: He who lets his garment trail during prayer out of pride, Allah, the Almighty, has nothing to do with pardoning him and protecting him from Hell.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #638 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
while a man was praying letting his lower garment trail, the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) said to him: Go and perform ablution. He, therefore, went and performed ablution and then returned. He (the prophet) again said: Go and perform ablution. He again went, performed ablution and returned. A man said to him (the prophet): Messenger of Allah, why did you order him to perform ablution? He said: he was praying with lower garment trailing, and does not accept the prayer of a man who lets his lower garm
Grade: Hasan

Hadith #639 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
In how many clothes should a woman pray? She replied; she would pray wearing a veil and a long shirt which covers the surface of her feet.
Grade: Da'if

Hadith #640 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
if the shirt is ample and covers the surface of her feet. Abu Dawud said: This tradition has been transmitted by Malik b. Anas, Bakr b. Mudar, Hafs b. Ghiyaht, Ismaâil b. Jaâfar, Ibn Abu Dhiâb, and Ibn Ishaq from Muhammad b. Zaid on the authority of his mother who narrated from Umm Salamah. None of these narrators mention the name of the Prophet (ï·º). They reported it directly from Umm Salamah.
Grade: Da'if

Hadith #641 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The Prophet (ï·º) said: Allah does not accept the prayer of a woman who has reached puberty unless she wears a veil. Abu Dawud said: This tradition has been narrated by Sa;id b. Abi âArubah from Qatadah on the authority of al-Hasan from the Prophet (ï·º).
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #642 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
âAâishah came to Safiyyah Umm Talha al-Talhat and seeing her daughter she said: The Messenger of Allah (ï·º) entered (into the house) and there was a girl in my apartment. He gave his lower garment (wrapper) to me and said; tear it into two pieces and give one-half to this (girl) and the other half to the girl with Umm Salamah. I think she has reached puberty, or (he said) I think they have reached puberty. Abu Dawud said: Hisham has narrated it similarly from Muhammad b. Sirin.
Grade: Da'if

Hadith #643 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The Messenger of Allah (ï·º) forbade trailing garments during prayer and that a man should cover his mouth. Abu Dawud said: This tradition has also been narrated by âIsi on the authority of âAtaâ from Abu Hurairah: The Prophet (ï·º) forbade trailing garments during prayer.
Grade: Hasan

Hadith #644 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
This (practice of âAtaâ) weakens the tradition (narrated by Abu Hurairah).
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #645 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
My father doubted.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #646 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
Saâid ibn AbuSaâid al-Maqburi reported on the authority of his father that he saw AbuRafiâ the freed slave of the Prophet (ï·º), passing by Hasan ibn Ali (Allah be pleased with them) when he was standing offering his prayer. He had tied the back knot of his hair. AbuRafiâ untied it. Hasan turned to him with anger, AbuRafiâ said to him: Concentrate on your prayer and do not be angry: I heard the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) say: This is the seat of the devil, referring to the back knot of
Grade: Hasan

Hadith #647 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
Kurayb the freed slave of Ibn Abbas reported: Abdullah ibn Abbas saw Abdullah ibn al-Harith praying having the back knot of the hair. He stood behind him and began to untie it. He remained standing unmoved (stationary). When he finished his prayer he came to Ibn Abbas and said to him: What were you doing with my head? He said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) say: A man who prays with the black knot of hair tied is the one praying pinioned.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #648 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
I saw the Prophet (ï·º) praying on the day of the conquest of Mecca and he had placed his shoe at his left side.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #649 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
âAbd Allah b. al-Saâib said; the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) led us in the morning prayer at Mecca. He began to recite Surah al-Mu;minin and while he came to description of Moses and Aaron or the description of Moses and Jesus the narrator Ibn âAbbad doubts or other narrators differed amongst themselves on this word the prophet (ï·º) coughed and gave up (recitation) and then bowed âAbd Allah b. al-Saâib was present seeing all this incident.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #650 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
While the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) was leading his Companions in prayer, he took off his sandals and laid them on his left side; so when the people saw this, they removed their sandals. When the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) finished his prayer, he asked: What made you remove your sandals? The replied: We saw you remove your sandals, so we removed our sandals. The Messenger of Allah (ï·º) then said: Gabriel came to me and informed me that there was filth in them. When any of you comes to the mosque,
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #651 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
This tradition has also been transmitted through a chain by Bakr b. âAbd Allah. This version has the word Khubuth (filth) and in two places the word Khubuthan (filth).
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #652 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The Messenger of Allah (ï·º) said: Act differently from the Jews, for they do not pray in their sandals or their shoes.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #653 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
I saw the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) praying both barefooted and wearing sandals.
Grade: Hasan Sahih

Hadith #654 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The Prophet (ï·º) said: When any of you prays, he should not place his sandals on his right side or on his left so as to be on the right side of someone else, unless no one is at his left, but should place them between his feet.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #655 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
when any of you prays and takes off his sandals, he should not harm anyone by them. He should place them between his feet or pray with them on
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #656 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) used to pray while. I was by his side in the state of menstruation. Sometime his cloth would touch me when he prostrated. He would pray on a small mat.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #657 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
A man from the Ansar said: I am a corpulent man-and he was (actually) a fat man; I cannot pray along with you. He prepared food for him and invited him to his house. (he said) (please) pray (here) so that I may see how you pray, and then I would follow you. They (the people) washed one side of their mat. He (the prophet) then got up and prayed two Rakâahs. Ibn al-Jarud asked Anas b. Malik: would he (the prophet) say the forenoon prayer? He replied: I did not see him offering this prayer except
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #658 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
Anas b. Malik said; the prophet (ï·º) used to visit Umm Sulaim. Sometimes the time for prayer would come and he would pray on out carpet that was really a mat. She (Umm Sulaim) used to wash it with water.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #659 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The Messenger of Allah (ï·º) used to pray on a mat and on a tanned skin.
Grade: Da'if

Hadith #660 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
we used to pray along with the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) in intense heat. When any of us could not rest his face on bare ground while prostrating due to intense heat he spread his cloth and would prostrate on it.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #661 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
Why do you stand in rows as the angels do in the presence of their Lord? We asked: how do the angles stand in rows in the presence of their Lord? He replied: they make the first row complete and keep close together in the row.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #662 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) paid attention to the people and said three times; straighten your rows (in prayer); by Allah, you must straighten your rows, or Allah will certainly put your faces in contrary directions. I then saw that every person stood in prayer keeping his shoulder close to that of the other, and his knee close to that of the other, and his ankle close to that of the other.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #663 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
the prophet (ï·º) used to straighten us in the rows of prayer as the arrow is straightened, until he thought that we had learned it from him and understood it. One day he turned towards us, and shoulders in order, and say; Do not be irregular. And he would say: Allah and his Angels bless those who near the first rows.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #664 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The Messenger of Allah (ï·º) used to pass through the row from one side to the other; he used to set out chests and shoulders in order, and say: Do not be irregular. And he would say: Allah and His angels bless those who are near the first rows.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #665 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The Messenger of Allah (ï·º) used to straighten our rows when we stood up to pray, and when we were straight, he said: Allah is most great (takbir).
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #666 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The Prophet (ï·º) said: Set the rows in order, stand shoulder to shoulder, close the gaps, be pliant in the hands of your brethren, and do not leave openings for the devil. If anyone joins up a row, Allah will join him up, but if anyone breaks a row, Allah will cut him off. Abu Dawud said: The name of Abu Shjrah is Kathir b. Murrah.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #667 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The Prophet (ï·º) said: Stand close together in your rows, bring them near one another, and stand neck to neck, for by Him in Whose hand my soul is, I see the devil coming in through openings in the row just like a small black sheep.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #668 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
Straighten your rows for the straightening of the rows is part of perfecting the prayer.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #669 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
one day I prayed by the side of Anas b. Malik. He said ; Do you know why this stick is placed here ? I said : No, by Allah. He said; The Messenger of Allah (ï·º) used to put his hand upon it and say: Keep straight and straighten your rows.
Grade: Da'if

Hadith #670 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
when the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) stood for prayer, he took it (the stick) in his right hand and turning (to the right side) said; keep straight and straighten your rows. He then took it in his left hand and said; keep straight and straighten your rows.
Grade: Da'if

Hadith #671 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The Prophet (ï·º) said: Complete the front row, then the one that comes next, and if there is any incompleteness, let it be in the last row.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #672 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The Prophet (ï·º) said: The best of you are those whose shoulders are soft in prayer.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #673 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
I offered the Friday prayer along with Anas ibn Malik. We were pushed to the pillars (due to the crowd of people). We, therefore, stopped forward and backward. Anas then said: We used to avoid it (setting a row between the pillars) during the time of the Messenger of Allah (ï·º).
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #674 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
let those of your who are sedate and prudent be near me, then those who are next to them, then those who are next to them.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #675 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
âDo not be irregular, so have your hearts irregular, and beware of tumult such as found in marketâ.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #676 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The Messenger of Allah (ï·º) said: Allah and His angels bless those who are on the right flanks of the rows.
Grade: Hasan

Hadith #677 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
Should I not tell you how the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) led the prayer? He said: He had the iqamah announced, drew the men up in line and drew up the youths behind them, then led them in prayer. He then mentioned how he conducted it. and said: Thus is the prayer ofâ¦â¦AbdulAâla said: I think he must have said: My people.
Grade: Hasan

Hadith #678 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
the best of the menâs row is the first and the worst of them is the last, but the best of the womenâs rows is the last and the worst of them is the first.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #679 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
âAâishah reported the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) as saying the people will continue to keep themselves away from the front row until Allah will keep them away (from the front) in the Hell-fire.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #680 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
Abu SaâId al-Khudri said; The Messenger of Allah (ï·º) saw a tendency among his companions to go to the back. He said to them; come forward and follow my lead, and let those who come after you follow your lead people will continue to keep to the back till Allah would put them at the back.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #681 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The Prophet (ï·º) said: Have the imam in the centre and close up the gaps.
Grade: Da'if

Hadith #682 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The Messenger of Allah (ï·º) saw a man praying alone behind the row. He ordered him to repeat. Sulayman ibn Harb said: The prayer.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #683 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
Abu Bakrah said that he came to the mosque when the prophet (ï·º) was bowing. So I bowed outside the row (before joining it). The prophet (ï·º) said; May Allah increase your eagerness! But do not do it again.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #684 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
Abu Bakrah came when the apostle of Allah (ï·º) was bowing. So he bowed without the row (before joining it). He then went to the row. When the prophet (ï·º) finished his prayer, he said: which of your bowed without the row, and then went to the row? Abu Bakrah said; it was i. the prophet (ï·º) said: May Allah increase your eagerness ! but do not do it again.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #685 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
When you place in front of you something such as the back of a saddle, then there is no harm if someone passes in front of you (i.e. the other side of it).
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #686 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The back of the saddle is (about) one cubit (in height) or more than that.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #687 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
When the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) would go out (for prayer) on the day of âId, he ordered to bring a lance, it was then setup in front of him and he would pray in its direction, and the people (stood) behind him. He used to do so during journey ; hence the rulers would take it (lance with them).
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #688 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The Prophet (ï·º) led them in prayer at al-Bathaâ, with a staff set up in front of him. (He prayed) two rakâahs of the Zuhr prayer and two rakâahs of the âAsr prayer. The women and the donkeys would pass in front of the staff.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #689 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The Prophet (ï·º) said: When one of you prays, he should put something in front of his face, and if he can find nothing , he should set up his staff; but if he has no staff, he should draw a line; then what passes in front of him will not harm him.
Grade: Da'if

Hadith #690 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The Prophet (ï·º) said: â¦â¦ He then narrated the tradition about drawing the line. Sufyan said: We did not find anything by which we could reinforce this tradition, and this has been narrated only through this chain. He (âAli b. al-Madini, a narrator) said: I said to Sufyan: There is a difference of opinion of the name (Abu Muhammad b. âAmr). He pondered for a moment and then said: I do not remember except Abu Muhammad b. âAmr Sufyan said: A man had come to Kufah after the death of Isma
Grade: Da'if

Hadith #691 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
I saw Sharik who led us in the âAsr prayer during a funeral ceremony. He placed his cap in front of him, that is, for saying the obligatory prayer the time of which had come.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #692 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The Prophet (ï·º) used to pray facing his camel.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #693 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
I never saw the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) praying in front of a stick, a pillar, or a tree, without having it opposite his right or left eyebrow, and not facing it directly.
Grade: Da'if

Hadith #694 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The Prophet (ï·º) said: Do not pray behind a sleeping or a talking person.
Grade: Hasan

Hadith #695 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The Prophet (ï·º) said: When one of you prays facing a sutrah he should keep close to it, and not let the devil interrupt his prayer. Abu Dawud said: This tradition has also been narrated by Waqid b. Muhammad from Safwan from Muhammad b. Sahl on the authority of his father, or on the authority of Muhammad b. Sahl from the Prophet (ï·º). Some have narrated it from Nafiâ b. Jubair on the authority of Sahl b. Saâd. There is a variation in the chain of its narrators.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #696 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The distance between the place where the Prophet (ï·º) stood and the qiblah (i.e. the sutrah or the wall of the mosque) was as much as to allow a goat to pass.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #697 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
When one of you prays, he should not let anyone pass in front of him; he should turn him away as far as possible; but if he refuses (to go), he should fight him, for he is only a devil.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #698 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
When one of you prays, he should pray facing the sutrah (screen or covering) and he should keep himself close to it. He then narrated the tradition to the same effect.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #699 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
I saw âAta b. Yazid al-Laithi praying in a standing posture. So I went to him passing in front of him; he, therefore, turned me away. He then said to me: Abu Saâid al-Khudri reported the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) as saying: If anyone of you can do that he should not let anyone pass between him and the qiblah, he should do it.
Grade: Hasan Sahih

Hadith #700 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
I narrate what I witnesses from Abu Saâid and heard from him. Abu Saâid entered upon Marwan and said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) say: When one of you prays facing any object which conceals him from people, and someone wishes to pass in front of him, he should strike him at his chest; if he refuses (to go), he should fight him; he is only a devil. Abu Dawud said: Sufyan Ath-Thawri said: âA person arrogantly walks in front of me while I am praying, so I stop him, and a weak person
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #701 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The Messenger of Allah(ï·º) as saying: âIf one who passes in front of a man who is praying knew the responsibility he incurs, he would prefer to stand still for forty. . . rather than pass in front of him. Abu al-Nadr said: I do not know whether he said forty days, or months, or years.â Abu Dawud: Sufyan al-Thawri said: If a man passes proudly in front of me while I am praying, I shall stop him, and if a weak man passes, I shall not stop him.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #702 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
Abu Dharr said (and not the Prophet): If there is not anything like the back of a saddle in front of a man who is praying, then a donkey, a black dog, and a woman cut off his prayer. I asked him: Why has the black dog been specified, distinguishing it from a red, a yellow and a white dog? He replied: My nephew, I also asked the Messenger of Allah(ï·º) the same question as you asked me. He said: The black dog is a devil.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #703 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
Qatadah said: I heard Jabir ibn Zayd who reported on the authority of Ibn Abbas; and Shuâbah reported the Prophet (ï·º) as saying: A menstruating woman and a dog cut off the prayer. Abu Dawud said: Saâid, Hisham and Hammam narrated this tradition from Qatadah on the authority of Jabir b. Zaid as a statement of Ibn âAbbas.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #704 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
Ikrimah reported on the authority of Ibn Abbas, saying: I think the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) said: When one of you prays without a sutrah, a dog, an ass, a pig, a Jew, a Magian, and a woman cut off his prayer, but it will suffice if they pass in front of him at a distance of over a stoneâs throw. Abu Dawud said: There is something about this tradition in my heart. I used to discuss it with Ibrahim and others. I did not find anyone who narrated it from Hisham and knew it. I did not know anyone
Grade: Da'if

Hadith #705 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
I saw a crippled man at Tabuk. He (the man) said: I passed riding a donkey in front of the Prophet(ï·º) who was praying. He said (cursing him): O Allah, cut off his walking. Thenceforth I could not walk.
Grade: Da'if

Hadith #706 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
He cut off our prayer, may Allah cut off his walking. Abu Dawud said: This version narrated by Mushir on the authority of Saâid has: He cut off our prayer.
Grade: Da'if

Hadith #707 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
I relate to you a tradition, but do not narrate it to anyone so long as I am alive: The Messenger of Allah (ï·º) encamped at Tabuk near a date-palm and he said: This is our qiblah (direction for praying). He then offered prayer facing it. I came running, when I was a boy, until I passed the place between him and the tree. He said (cursing): He cut off our prayer, may Allah cut off his walking. I could not, therefore, stand upon them(feet) till today.
Grade: Da'if

Hadith #708 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
We came down from the mountain pass of Adhaakhir in the company of the Messenger of Allah (ï·º). The time of prayer came and he prayed facing a direction of prayer, and we were (standing) behind him. Then a kid came and passed in front of him. He kept on stopping it until he brought his stomach near the wall (to detain it), and at last it passed behind him, or as Musaddad said.
Grade: Hasan Sahih

Hadith #709 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The Prophet (ï·º) was (once) praying. A kid went passing in front of him and he kept on stopping it.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #710 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
I was sleeping in front of the Prophet (ï·º) with my legs between him and the qiblah. Shuâbah said: I think she said: I was menstruating. Abu Dawud said: This tradition has been narrated by al-Zuhri, âAta, Abu Bakr b. Hafs, Hisham b. âUrwah, âIrak b. Malik, Abu al-Aswad and Tamim b. Salamah; all transmitted from âUrwah on the authority of âAishah. Ibrahim narrated from al-Aswad on the authority of âAishah. Abu al-Duha narrated from Masruq on the authority of âAishah. Al-Qasim b.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #711 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The Messenger of Allah (ï·º) used to pray at night and she (âAâishah) would lie between him and the qiblah, sleeping on the bed on which he would sleep. When he wanted to offer the witr prayer, he awakened her and she offered the witr prayer.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #712 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
I used to sleep with my legs in front of the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) when he would offer his prayer at night (i.e. tahajjud prayer offered towards the end of the night.). When he prostrated himself he struck my legs, and I drew them up and he then prostrated.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #713 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
âI used to be asleep while my legs would be in the front of the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) while he was praying during the night. When he wanted to prostrate, he would prod my feet, so I would pull them up, and he would prostrate.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #714 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
I used to sleep lying between the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) and the qiblah. The Messenger of Allah (ï·º) used to pray when I (was lying) in front of him. When he wanted to offer the witr prayer â added by the narrator Uthman â he pinched me â then the narrators are agreed â and said: Set aside.
Grade: Hasan Sahih

Hadith #715 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
I came riding a donkey. Another version has: Ibn Abbas said: When I was near the age of the puberty I came riding a she-ass and found the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) leading the people in prayer at Mina. I passed in front of a part of the row (of worshippers), and dismounting left my she-ass for grazing in the pasture, and I joined the row, and no one objected to that. Abu Dawud said: These are the words of al-Qaânabi, and are complete. Malik said: I take it as permissible at the time when the iq
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #716 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
AbusSahbaâ said: We discussed the things that cut off the prayer according to Ibn Abbas. He said: I and a boy from Banu AbdulMuttalib came riding a donkey, and the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) was leading the people in prayer. He dismounted and I also dismounted. I left the donkey in front of the row (of the worshippers). He (the Prophet) did not pay attention to that. Then two girls from Banu AbdulMuttalib came and joined the row in the middle, but he paid no attention to that.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #717 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
Then two girls from Banu âAbd al-Muttalib came fighting together. He caught them. âUthman (a narrator) said: He separated them. And Dawud (another narrator) said: He pulled away from the other, but he paid no attention to that.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #718 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The Messenger of Allah (ï·º) came to us accompanied by Abbas when we were in open country belonging to us. He prayed in a desert with no sutrah in front of him, and a she-ass and a bitch of ours were playing in front of him, but he paid no attention to that.
Grade: Da'if

Hadith #719 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The Prophet (ï·º) said: Nothing interrupt prayer, but repulse as much as you can anyone who passes in front of you, for he is just a devil.
Grade: Hasan

Hadith #720 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
A youth from the Quraish passed in front of Abu Saâid al-Khudri who was praying. He repulsed him. He returned again. He then repulsed him for the third time. When he finished the prayer, he said: Nothing cuts off prayer; but the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) said: Repulse as much as you can, for he is just a devil. Abu Dawud said: If two traditions of the prophet(ï·º) conflict, the practice of the Companions after him should be taken into consideration.
Grade: Hasan

Hadith #721 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
I saw the Messenger of Allah(ï·º) that when he began prayer, he used to raise his hands opposite his shoulders, and he did so when he bowed, and raised his head after bowing. Sufyan(a narrator) once said: âWhen he raised his head:; and after he used to say: âWhen he raised his head after bowing. He would not raise (his hands) between the two prostrations.â
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #722 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The Messenger of Allah (ï·º) used to raise his hands opposite his shoulders when he began prayer, then he uttered takbir (Allah is most great) in the same condition, and then he bowed. And when he raised his back (head) after bowing he raised them opposite his shoulders, and said: âAllah listens to him who praises Him.â But he did not raise his hand when he prostrated himself; he rather raised them when he uttered the takbir (Allah is most great) before bowing until his prayer is finished.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #723 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
I was a small boy and I did not understand the prayer of my father. So WaâIl b. âAlqamah reported Waâil b. Hujr as saying: I offered prayer along with the Messenger of Allah (ï·º). He used to raise his hands when he pronounced the takbir (Allah is most great), then pulled his garment around him, then placed his right hand on his left, and entered his hands in his garment. When he was about to bow he took his hands out of his garment, and then raised them. And when he raised his head after
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #724 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
He saw that when the Prophet(ï·º) stood up to pray he raised his hands till they were in front of his shoulders and placed his thumbs opposite his ears; then he uttered the Takbir (Allah is most great).
Grade: Da'if

Hadith #725 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
Waâil b.Hujr said that he saw the Messenger of Allah(ï·º) raise his hands when he uttered the takbir (Allah is most great).
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #726 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
I purposely looked at the prayer of the Messenger of Allah (ï·º), how he offered it. The Messenger of Allah (ï·º) stood up, faced the direction of the qiblah and uttered the takbir (Allah is most great) and then raised his hands in front of his ears, then placed his right hand on his left (catching each other). When he was about to bow, he raised them in the same manner. He then placed his hands on his knees. When he raised his head after bowing, he raised them in the like manner. When he prostr
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #727 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
âHe then placed his right hand on the back of his left palm and his wrist and forearm.â This also adds: âI then came back afterwards in a season when it was severe cold. I saw the people putting on heavy clothes moving their hands under the clothes (i.e. raised their hands before and after bowing).â
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #728 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
I witnessed the Prophet (ï·º) raise his hands in front of his ears when he began to pray. I then came back and saw them (the people) raising their hands up to their chest when they began to pray. They wore long caps and blankets.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #729 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
I came to the Prophet(ï·º) during winter; I saw his companions raise their hands in their clothes in prayer.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #730 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
I am one among you who is more informed of the way the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) prayed. They said: Why, By Allah, you did not follow him more than us, nor did you remain in his company longer than us? He said: Yes. They said: Then describe (how the Prophet prayed). He said: When the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) stood up to pray, he raised his hands so as to bring them opposite his shoulders, and uttered the takbir (Allah is the most great), until every bone rested in its place properly: then re reci
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #731 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
I (once) attended the meeting of the companions of the Messenger of Allah(ï·º). They began to discuss his prayer. Abu Humaid then narrated a part of the same tradition and said: When he bowed he clutched his knees with his palms, and he opened his fingers; then he bent his back without raising his upwards, and did not turn his face (on any side). When he sat at the end of two rakâahs he sat on the sole of his left foot and raised the right, and after the fourth he placed his left hip on the gr
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #732 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
âWhen he prostrated himself he neither placed his arms on the ground nor closed them; putting forward his fingers towards the qiblah.â
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #733 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
He then raised his head after bowing and uttered:âAllah listens to him who praises Him, to Thee, our Lord, be the praise,â and raised his hands. He then uttered: âAllah is most greatâ; then he prostrated himself and rested on his palms, knees, and the end of his toes while prostrating: then he uttered the Takbir (Allah is most great), and sat down on his hips and raised his other foot; then he uttered the takbir and prostrated himself; then he uttered takbir and stood up, but did not sit
Grade: Da'if

Hadith #734 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
Abu Humaid, Abu Usaid, Sahl. B Saâd and Muhammad b. Maslamah (once) got together and discussed how the Messenger of Allah(ï·º) used to offer his prayer. Abu Humaid said: I am more informed than any of you regarding the prayer offered by the Messenger of Allah (ï·º). Then he mentioned a part of it, and said: He then bowed and placed his hands upon his knees as if he caught hold of them; and bent them, keeping (his arms) away from his sides. He them prostrated himself and placed his nose and for
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #735 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
When he (the Prophet) prostrated he kept his thighs wide and did not let his belly touch the thighs. Abu Dawud says that Ibn Mubarak narrated this hadith from âAbbas b. Sahl, which he did not remember well. It is thought that he has mentioned âIsa b. âAbd Allah, âAbbas b. Sahl and Abu Humaid al-Saâidi.
Grade: Da'if

Hadith #736 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
When he prostrated, his knees touched the ground before his palms touched it; when he prostrated himself, he placed his forehead on the ground between his palms, and kept his armpits away from his sides. Hajjaj reported from Hammam and Shaqiq narrated a similar tradition to us from âAsim b. Kulaib on the authority of his father from the Prophet(ï·º). And another version narrated by one of them has-and I think in all probability that this version has been narrated by Muhammad b. Juhadah-when he
Grade: Da'if

Hadith #737 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
I saw the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) raising his thumbs in prayer up to the lobes of his ears.
Grade: Da'if

Hadith #738 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
When the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) uttered the takbir (Allah is most great) for prayer (in the beginning), he raised his hands opposite to his shoulders; and when he bowed, he did like that; and when he raised his head to prostrate, he did like that; and when he got up at the end of two rakâahs, he did like that.
Grade: Da'if

Hadith #739 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
Maymun al-Makki said: that he saw Abdullah ibn az-Zubayr leading in prayer. He pointed with his hands (i.e. raised his hands opposite to the shoulders) when he stood up, when he bowed and when he prostrated, and when he got up after prostration, he pointed with his hands (i.e. raised his hands). The I went to Ibn Abbas and said (to him) I saw Ibn az-Zubayr praying that I never saw anyone praying. I then told him about the pointing with his hands (raising his hands). He said: If you like to see t
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #740 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
Nadr ibn Kathir as-Saâdi said: Abdullah ibn Tawus prayed at my side in the mosque of al-Khayf. When he made the first prostration, he raised his head after it and raised his hands opposite to his face. This came as something strange for me. I, therefore, said it to Wuhayb ibn Khalid. Then Wuhayb ibn Khalid said to him: You are doing a thing that I did not see anyone do. Ibn Tawus then replied: I saw my father doing it, and my father said: I saw Ibn Abbas doing it. I do not know but he said: Th
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #741 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
âAllah listens to him who praises Him,â (he raised his hands); and when he stood up at the end of two rakâahs, he raised his hands. He (Ibn âUmar) traced that back to the Messenger of Allah (ï·º). Abu Dawud said: What is correct is that the tradition reported by Ibn âUmar does not go back to the Prophet (may peace beupon him). Abu Dawud said: The narrator Baqiyyah reported the first part of this tradition from âUbaid Allah and traced it back to the Prophet (ï·º); and the narrator al-
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #742 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
When âAbd Allah b. âUmar began his prayer, he raised his hands opposite to his shoulders; and when he raised his head after bowing, he raised them lower than that. Abu Dawud said: So as far as I know, no one narrated the words âhe raised them lower that thatâ except Malik.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #743 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
When the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) stood at the end of two rakâahs, he uttered the takbir (Allah is most great) and raised his hands.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #744 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
When the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) stood for offering the obligatory prayer, he uttered the takbir (Allah is most great) and raised his hands opposite to his shoulders; and he did like that when he finished recitation (of the Qurâan) and was about to bow; and he did like that when he rose after bowing; and he did not raise his hands in his prayer while he was in his sitting position. When he stood up from his prostrations (at the end of two rakâahs), he raised his hands likewise and uttered t
Grade: Hasan Sahih

Hadith #745 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
I saw the Prophet (ï·º) raise his hands when he uttered the takbir (Allah is most great), when he bowed and when he raised his head after bowing until he brought them to the lobes of his ears.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #746 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
If I were in front of the Prophet (ï·º), I would see his armpits. Ibn Muâadh added that Lahiq said: Do you not see, AbuHurayrah could not stand in front of the Prophet (ï·º) while he was praying. Musa added: When he uttered the takbir, he raised his hands.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #747 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The Messenger of Allah (ï·º) taught us how to pray. He then uttered the takbir (Allah is most great) and raised his hands; when he bowed, he joined his hands and placed them between his knees. When this (report) reached Saâd, he said: My brother said truly. We used to do this; then we were later on commanded to do this, that is, to place the hands on the knees.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #748 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
Abdullah ibn Masâud said: Should I not pray for you the way the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) prayed? So he prayed, raising his hands only once. Abu Dawud said: This is a summarized version of a longer narration and it is not authentic with this wording.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #749 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
He raised his hands once in the beginning. Some narrated: (raised his hands) once only.
Grade: Da'if

Hadith #750 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
When the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) began prayer, he raised his hands up to his ears, then he did not repeat.
Grade: Da'if

Hadith #751 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The words âthen he did not repeatâ were narrated to us later on at Kufah by him (Yazid). Abu Dawud said: This tradition has also been transmitted by Hushaim, Khalid, and Ibn Idris from Yazid. They did not mention the words âthen he did not repeatâ
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #752 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
I saw that the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) raised his hands when he began prayer, but he did not raise them until he finished (prayer). Abu Dawud said: This tradition is not sound.
Grade: Da'if

Hadith #753 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
When the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) began his prayer, he raised his hands extensively.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #754 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
I heard Ibn al-Zubair say: Setting the feet right and placing one hand on the other is a sunnah.
Grade: Hasan

Hadith #755 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
AbuUthman an-Nahdi said: When Ibn Masâud prayed he placed his left hand on the right. The Prophet (ï·º) saw him and placed his right hand on his left one.
Grade: Hasan

Hadith #756 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
AbuJuhayfah said: Ali said that it is a sunnah to place one hand on the other in prayer below the navel.
Grade: Da'if

Hadith #757 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
I saw Ali (Allah be pleased with him) catching hold of his left hand) by his right hand on the wrist above the navel. Abu Dawud said: Saâid b. Jubair narrated the words: âabove the navelâ. Abu Mijlaz reported the words: âbelow the navelâ. This has also been narrated by Abu Hurairah. But that is not strong.
Grade: Hasan

Hadith #758 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
(The established way of folding hands is) to hold the hands by the hands in prayer below the navel. Abu Dawud said: I heard Ahmad b. Hanbal say: The narrator âAbd al-Rahman b. Ishaq al-Kufi is weak (i.e. not reliable).
Grade: Da'if

Hadith #759 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The Messenger of Allah (ï·º) used to place his right hand on his left hand, then he folded them strictly on his chest in prayer.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #760 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
When the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) stood up for prayer, he uttered the takbir (Allah is most great), then said: I have turned my face, breaking with all others, towards Him Who created the heavens and the earth, and I am not a polytheist. My prayer and my devotion, my life and my death belong to Allah, the Lord of the Universe, Who has no partner. That is what I have been commanded, and I am first of Muslims (those who surrender themselves). O Allah, Thou art the King. There is no God but Thee. T
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #761 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
When the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) stood up for (offering) obligatory prayer, he uttered the takbir (Allah is most great) and raised his hands opposite to his shoulders, and he did so when he finished the recitation (of the Qurâan) and when he was about to bow; and he did like that when he raised (his head) after bowing. He did not raise his hands in prayer when he was sitting. When he stood at the end of two rakâahs, he raised his hands in a similar way and uttered the takbir and supplicated
Grade: Hasan Sahih

Hadith #762 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
Ibn al-Munkadir, Ibn Abi Farwah and a number of jurists of Madina said to me: When you recite the supplication âI am first of the Muslims,â say instead; âI am one of the Muslimsâ.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #763 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
A man came panting to join the row of worshippers, and said: Allah is most great; praise be to Allah, much praise, good and blessed. When the Messenger of Allah(ï·º) finished his prayer, he asked: Which of you is the one who spoke the words? He said nothing wrong. Then the man said: I (said), Messenger of Allah (ï·º); I came and had difficulty in breathing, so I said them. He said: I saw twelve angels racing against one another to be the one to take them to Allah. The narrator Humaid added: When
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #764 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
Jabir saw the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) observing prayer. (The narrator Amr said: I do not know which prayer he was offering.) He (the Prophet) said: Allah is altogether great; Allah is altogether great; Allah is altogether great; and praise be to Allah in abundance; and praise be to Allah is abundance; and praise be to Allah in abundance. Glory be to Allah in the morning and after (saying it three times). I seek refuge in Allah from the accursed devil, from his puffing up (nafkh), his spitting (
Grade: Hasan

Hadith #765 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
I head the Prophet(ï·º) uttering (all these supplications) in a supererogatory prayer; he narrated the tradition in a similar manner.
Grade: Hasan

Hadith #766 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
Asim ibn Humayd said: I asked Aisha: By what words the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) would begin his supererogatory prayer at night? She replied: You ask me about a thing of which no one asked me before you. When he stood up, be uttered the takbir (Allah is most great) ten times, and uttered âPraise be to Allahâ ten times, and uttered âGlory be to Allah â ten times, and uttered âThere is no god but Allahâ ten times, and sought forgiveness ten times, and said: O Allah, forgive me, and guid
Grade: Hasan Sahih

Hadith #767 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
I asked âAâishah: By what words the Prophet(ï·º) used to begin his prayer when he stood up at night (to offer tahajjud prayer). She said: When he stood up at night, he began his prayer by saying: O Allah, Lord of Jibraâil, Lord of Mikâail, and Lord of Israfil, Creator of the Heavens and the Earth, the Knower of what is seen and of what is unseen; Thou decides between Thy servants in which they used to differ. Guide me to the truth where there is a difference of opinion by Thy permission.
Grade: Hasan

Hadith #768 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
When he stood up, he said the takbir (Allah is most great) and said. . . .
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #769 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
There is no harm in uttering supplication in prayer, in its beginning, in its middle, and in the end, in obligatory prayer or other.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #770 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
One day we were praying behind the Messenger of Allah (ï·º). When the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) raised his head after bowing, he said: Allah listened to him who praised Him. A man behind the Messenger of Allah(ï·º) said: O Allah, Our Lord, and to Thee be praise, much praise, good and blessed. When the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) finished his prayer, he asked: Which of you if the one who spoke (the words) just now. The man said: I (uttered) these words, Prophet of Allah. The Messenger of Allah(ï·º) s
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #771 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
When the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) stood up for praying at midnight, he said: o Allah, be praise to Thee, Thou art the light of the heavens and the earth; and to Thee be praise; Thou are the maintainer of the heavens and the earth; and to Thee be praise, Thou art the heavens and the earth and what is between them; Thou art the truth, and Thy statement is truth; and Thy promise is the truth; and the visitation with Thee is true; and the Paradise is true and the Hell-fire is true and the Hour is tr
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #772 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The Messenger of Allah (ï·º) used to say in his tahajjud prayer(i.e. supererogatory prayer offered in or after the midnight) after he said the takbir; he then narrated the tradition to the same effect.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #773 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
I offered prayer behind the Messenger of Allah (ï·º). Rifaâah sneezed. The narrator Qutaybah did not mention the name Rifaâah (but he said: I sneezed). So I said: Praise be to Allah, praise much, good and blessed therein, blessed thereupon, as our Lord likes and is pleased. When the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) finished his prayer, he turned and said: Who was the speaker in prayer? He then narrated the rest of the tradition like that of Malik and completed it.
Grade: Hasan

Hadith #774 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
A young man from the Ansar sneezed behind the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) while he was praying. He then said: Praise be to Allah, much, good, blessed, till our Lord is pleased (with us) in the affairs relating to this world and to the other world. When the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) finished his prayer, he said: Who was the speaker of these words (in prayer)? The young man kept silence. He again asked: Who was the speaker of these words? He did not say wrong. He said: Messenger of Allah, I said these
Grade: Da'if

Hadith #775 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
When the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) got up to pray at night (for tahajjud prayer) he uttered the takbir and then said: âGlory be to Thee, O Allah,â and âPraise be to Theeâ and âBlessed is Thy name,â and Exalted is Thy greatness.â and âThere is no god but Thee.â He then said: âThere is no god but Allahâ three times; he then said: âAllah is altogether greatâ three times: âI seek refuge in Allah, All-Hearing and All-Knowing from the accursed devil, from his evil suggestion
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #776 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
When the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) began his prayer, he said: âGlory be to Thee, O Allah,â and âPraise be to Theeâ and âBlessed is Thy name, and Exalted is Thy greatness, sand there is no god but Allah.â Abu Dawud said: This tradition is not well known from âAbd al-Salam b. Harb. No one narrated this except Talq b. Ghannam. A group of narrators reported the description of prayer from (the narrator) Budail; they did not mention therein this supplication.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #777 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
I remember two period of silence in prayer, one when the imam said the takbir; and one when he finished reciting the Fatihah and the surah when he was about to bow. But Imran ibn Husayn took it as something strange. So they wrote about it to Ubayy (ibn Kaâb) in Medina. He verified the statement of Samurah. Abu Dawud said: Humaid also narrated in this tradition the words âand one period silence when he finished the recitation (of the Qurâan)â
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #778 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The Prophet(ï·º) had two periods of silence; when he began his prayer and when he finished the recitation (of the Qurâan). He then narrated the tradition like the version of Yunus.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #779 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
Samurah ibn Jundub and Imran ibn Husayn had a discussion (about the periods of silence in prayer). Samurah then said that he remembered two periods of silence from the Messenger of Allah (ï·º); one when he uttered the takbir and the other when he finished reciting: âNot of those with whom Thou art angry, nor of those who go astrayâ (i.7). Samurah remembered that, but Imran ibn Husayn rejected it. Then they wrote about it to Ubayy ibn Kaâb. He wrote a letter to them and gave a reply to them
Grade: Da'if

Hadith #780 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
I remember from the Messenger of Allah (ï·º) two periods of silence. Saâid said: We asked Qatadah: What are those two periods of silence? He said: (one) when he began his prayer, and (one) when he finished the recitation. Then he added: When he finished reciting (the closing verse of the Fatihah): âNot of those with whom Thou art angry, nor of who go astray.â
Grade: Da'if

Hadith #781 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The Messenger of Allah (ï·º) kept silence between the takbir and the recitation of Qurâan. So I asked him, for whom I would give my father and mother as ransom: What do you say during you period of silence between the takbir and the recitation? He replied (that he said): O Allah, purify me from sins as a white garment is purified from filth. O Allah, wash away my sings with snow, water and hail.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #782 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The Prophet(peace be upon hm), Abu Bakr, âUmar and âUthman used to begin the recitation with âPraise be to Allah, the Lord of the Universe.â
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #783 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The Messenger of Allah(ï·º) began prayer with the takbir (Allah is most great) and with reciting âPraise be to Allah, the Lord of the Universeâ. And when he bowed, he neither raised up nor lowered down his head, but kept it between the two (conditions). And when he raised his head after bowing, he did not prostrate himself until he stood up straight; and when he raised his head after prostration, he did not prostrate (the second time) until he sat down properly; and he recited al-tahiyyat af
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #784 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The Messenger of Allah (ï·º) said: A surah has just been revealed to me. He then recited:âIn the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful. Lo! We have given thee Abundanceâ until he finished it. Then he asked: Do you know what Abundance (al-Kawthar) is? They replied: Allah and His Apostle know it better. He said: It is a river of which my Lord, the Exalted, the Majestic has promised me to give in Paradise.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #785 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The Messenger of Allah (ï·º) sat and unveiled his face and said: âI take refuge in Allah, All-Hearing, All-Knowing from the accursed devil. Lo! They who spread the slander are a gang among you.â Abu Dawud said: This is a rejected (munkar) tradition. A group of narrators have reported this tradition from al-Zuhri; but did not mention this detail. I am afraid the phrase concerning âseeking refuge in Allahâ is the statement of Humaid.
Grade: Da'if

Hadith #786 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
: Yazid al-Farisi said: I heard Ibn Abbas say: I asked Uthman ibn Affan: What moved you to put the (Surah) al-Baraâah which belongs to the miâin (surahs) (containing one hundred verses) and the (Surah) al-Anfal which belongs to the mathani (Surahs) in the category of as-sabâu at-tiwal (the first long surah or chapters of the Qurâan), and you did not write âIn the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Mercifulâ between them? Uthman replied: When the verses of the Qurâan were reveale
Grade: Hasan

Hadith #787 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The apostle of Allah (ï·º) died, but he did not mention to us that surah al baraah ins a part of al-anfal. Abu Dawood said: Al-shaâbl, Abu Malik, Qatadah, and Thabit b. âUmarah said: The prophet( may peace be upon him) did not writeâIn the name of Allah, the compassionate, the mercifulâ until Surah al-naml was revealed. This is the meaning of what they said. Further, this is a mursal traditional(omitting the name of the companion)
Grade: Hasan

Hadith #788 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The prophet (ï·º) did not distinguish between the two surahs until the words âIn the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the mercifulâ was revealed to him. These are the words of Ibn al-sarh.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #789 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
I stand up to pray and intend to prolong it; but when I hear the cry of a boy I shorten if for fear that his mother might be distressed.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #790 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
Muâadh b. Jabal used to pray along with the Prophet (ï·º); then he returned and led us in prayer. Sometimes he (the narrator) said: then he returned and led his people in prayer. One night the Prophet (ï·º) delayed the prayer. Sometimes he (the narrator) mentioned the word âthe night prayerâ. Then Muâadh prayed along with the Prophet (ï·º), then returned to his people and led them in prayer, and recited Surat al-Baqarah. A man turned aside and prayed alone. The people said to him: Have y
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #791 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
O muâadh, do not become a trouble , because the aged, the weak, the needy and the traveler pray behind you.
Grade: Da'if

Hadith #792 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
AbuSalih reported on the authority of some Companions of the Prophet (ï·º): The Prophet (ï·º) said to a person: what do you say in prayer? He replied: I first recite tashahhud (supplication recited in sitting position), and then I say: O Allah, I ask Thee for Paradise, and I seek refuge in Thee from Hell-Fire, but I do not understand your sound and the sound of Muâadh (what you say or he says in prayer). The Prophet (ï·º) said: We too go around it (paradise and Hell-fire).
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #793 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The prophet (ï·º) said to a youth: My nephew, what do you do in prayer? He replied: I recited fatihat al-katab and I ask Allah for paradise and seek his refuge from hell-fire I do not understand well your sound and the sound of muâadh. The prophet (ï·º) said: I and Muâadh go around both (paradise and Hell-fire), or he said something similar.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #794 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
When one of you leads the people in prayer, he should be brief, for among them are the weak, the sick, and the aged. But when one of you prays by himself, he may pray as long as he likes.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #795 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
when one of you leads the people in prayer, he should be brief, for among them are the sick, the aged and the needy.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #796 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
I heard the apostle of Allah (ï·º) say: A man returns after saying his prayer while a tenth part of his prayer, or a ninth part, or an eight part, or a seventh part, or a sixth part, or a fifth part, or a third part, or half of it, is recorded for him.
Grade: Hasan

Hadith #797 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
In every prayer there is a recitation. We make you listen what the Messenger of Allah(ï·º) made us listen, and we keep hidden from you what he kept hidden from us.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #798 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
The apostle of Allah (ï·º) used to lead us in prayer and recite in the first two rakâahs of the noon prayers Fatihat al-kitab and two surahs, and he would sometimes recite loud enough for us to hear the verse. He would prolong the first rakâah of the noon prayer and shorten the second; and he did so in the morning prayer. Abu Dawud said: Musaddad did not mention the words fatihat al-kitab and surah.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #799 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
He would recite Fatihat al-kitab in the last two surahs. Hammam added: He would prolong the first rakâah but would not prolong the second so much; and he did so similarly in the afternoon prayer, and so in the morning prayer.
Grade: Sahih

Hadith #800 - Sunan Abi Dawud (Sunan Abi Dawud)
We thought that by this (prolonging the first rakâah). He (the prophet) meant that the people might join the first rakâah.
Grade: Sahih