Prayer & Salah

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

I came to the Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) who was saying prayer. He spat beneath his left foot.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

“He then rubbed it with his shoe."

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

AbuSa'id said: I saw Wathilah ibn al-Asqa' in the mosque of Damascus. He spat at the mat and then rubbed it with his foot. He was asked: Why did you do so? He said: Because I saw the Messenger of...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

We came to Jabir ibn Abdullah who was sitting in his mosque. He said: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came to us in this mosque and he had a twig of date-palm of the kind of Ibn Tab. He looked...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

A man entered the mosque on camel and made it kneel down, and then tied his leg with rope. He then asked: Who among you is Muhammad? The Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) was sitting leaning upon...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

Banu Sa’d b. Bakr sent Qamam b. Tha’labah to the apostle of Allah (May peace be upon him). He came to him and made his camel kneel down near the gate of the mosque. He then tied its leg and...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

The Jews came to the Prophet (May peace be upon him) and he was sitting in the mosque among his Companions. They said: O Abu al-Qasim, a man and a woman have committed adultery.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

The earth has been made for me purifying and as a mosque (place for prayer).

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

AbuSalih al-Ghifari reported: Ali (once) passed by Babylon during his travels. The mu'adhdhin (the person who calls for prayer) came to him to call for the afternoon prayer. When he passed by that place, he commanded to announce for the...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

Abu Salih narrated this tradition with a different chain of transmitters to the same effect as reported by Sulaiman b. Dawud. But this version has the word KHARAJA (he went out) instead of BARAZA (proceeded).

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

and the narrator Musa said: As far as Amr thinks, the Prophet (ﷺ) said: The whole earth is a place of prayer except public baths and graveyards.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

The Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) was asked about saying prayer at places where the camels kneel down. He replied; Do not say prayer at places where the camels kneel down because they are the places of...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Command a boy to pray when he reaches the age of seven years. When he becomes ten years old, then beat him for prayer.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Command your children to pray when they become seven years old, and beat them for it (prayer) when they become ten years old; and arrange their beds (to sleep) separately.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

Waki' misunderstood the name of Dawud b. Sawar. Abu Dawud al-Tayalisi has narrated this tradition from him. He said: Anu Hamzah Sawar al-Sairafi.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

Hisham ibn Sa'd reported: We entered upon Mu'adh ibn Abdullah ibn Khubayb al-Juhani. He said to his wife: When (at what age) should a boy pray? She replied: Some person of us reported: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was asked...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

AbuUmayr reported on the authority of his uncle who was from the Ansar (the helpers of the Prophet): The Prophet (ﷺ) was anxious as to how to gather the people for prayer. The people told him: Hoist a flag at...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

when the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) ordered a bell to be made so that it might be struck to gather the people for prayer, a man carrying a bell in his hand appeared to me while I was asleep, and...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

I testify that there is no god but Allah, I testify that there is no god but Allah; I testify that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, I testify that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. Lowering your voice while...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

He (the prophet) taught me IQAMAH (to pronounce each phrase) twice: Allah is most great. Allah is most great. I testify that there is no god but Allah. I testify that there is no god but Allah; I testify that...