Prayer & Salah

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

sahl b. Sa’d said; Fighting took place amongst the tribe of Banu ‘Amr b. ‘Awf. This (the news) reached the prophet (May peace be upon him). He came to them for their reconciliation after the noon prayer . he said...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

Clapping by women means that one should strike her left hand with the two fingers of her right hand.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

The Prophet (ﷺ) used to make a sign during prayer.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Saying Tasbih applies to men during prayer and clapping applies to women. Anyone who makes a sign during his prayer, a sign which is intelligible by implication, should repeat it (i.e. his prayer). (AbuDawud commented on...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: When one of you gets up to pray, he must not remove pebbles, for mercy is facing him.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

Mu’aiqib reported the Prophet (ﷺ) as saying ; Do not remove pebbles while you are praying; if you do it out of sheer necessity, do it only once to smooth the pebbles.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

Abu hurairah said that the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) forbade putting hands on the waist during prayer. Abu Dawud said; The word Ikhtisar means to put one’s hands on one’s waist.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

Hilal ibn Yasaf said: I came to ar-Raqqah (a place in Syria). One of my companions said to me: Do you want to see any of the Companions of the Prophet (ﷺ)? I said: A good opportunity. So we went...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

Zaid b. Arqam said ; One of us used to speak to the man standing by his side during prayer. Then the Quranic verse “ And stand up with devotion to Allah”

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

It has been narrated to me that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said : The Prayer of a man in sitting condition is half the prayer (wins him half the reward of prayer). I came to him and found him...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

‘Imran b. Hussain asked the prophet (ﷺ) about the prayer a man offers in sitting condition. He replied: his prayer in standing condition is better than his prayer in sitting condition, and his prayer in sitting condition is half the...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

I had a fistula; so I asked the prophet (ﷺ). He said: offer prayer in standing condition; if you are unable to do so, then in sitting condition: if you are then at your side(i.e, in lying condition).

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

I never saw the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) reciting the Quraan in his prayer at night in sitting condition until he became old. Then he used to sit in it (the prayer) and recite the Quran until forty or thirty...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

when the prophet (ﷺ) prayed sitting, he recited the Quran in sitting condition. When the amount of his recitation remained about thirty or forty verses he stood up and recited them standing. He then bowed and prostrated and then did...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to pray standing at night for a long time, and used to pray sitting at night for a long time. When he prayed standing, he bowed standing, and when he prayed sitting, he bowed...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

I asked ‘A’ishah whether the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) recited a whole Surah (of the Quran) in one Rak’ah of the prayer. She replied : (He recited from among) the Mufassal surahs. I asked: Did he pray (at night) sitting?...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

I said that I should look at the prayer of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) how he prays. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) stood up and faced the qiblah (i.e. the direction of Ka'bah) and uttered the takbir (Allah is...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

"A Sunnah of the prayer is that you should raise your right foot, and make your left foot lie (on the ground)."

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

"I heard Al-Qasim saying: "Abdullah bin 'Abdullah informed me that he heard 'Abdullah bin 'Umar saying: "From the Sunnah of the prayer is to lay your left foot on the ground, and raise your right foot."

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

Hammad bin Zaid also said (the wording): "From the Sunnah" (narrating) from Yahya just as Jarir did.