Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Pray two rak'ahs before the Maghrib prayer. He then said (again): Pray two rak'ahs before the Maghrib prayer, it applies to those who wish to do so. That was because he feared that the...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
I offered two rak'ahs of prayer before the Maghrib prayer (i.e. obligatory) during the time of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). I (narrator al-Mukhtar b. Fulful) asked Anas: Did the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) se you ? He replied: Yes,...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: Between the two adhans there is a prayer, between the two adhans there is prayer for one who desires (to offer).
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
Ibn 'Umar was asked about praying two rak'ahs before the Maghrib prayer. He replied: I did not see anyone praying them during the time of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). He (Ibn Umar) permitted to pray two rak'ahs after the...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
The Prophet (ﷺ) as saying: In the morning alms are due for every bone in man's body. His salutation to everyone he meets is alms, his enjoining good is alms, his forbidding what is evil is alms, the removal of...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
While we were present with Abu Dharr, he said: In the morning, alms are due for him, ever fast is alms, every pilgrimage is alms, every utterance of "Glory to be Allah" is alms, every utterance of "Allah is most...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If anyone sits in his place of prayer when he finishes the dawn prayer till he prays the two rak'ahs of the forenoon, saying nothing but what is good, his sins will be forgiven even if...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Prayer followed by a prayer with no idle talk between the two is recorded in Illiyyun.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: Allah, the Exalted, says: Son of Adam, do not be helpless in performing four rak'ahs for Me at the beginning of the day: I will supply what you need till the end...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) prayed on the day of the Conquest (of Mecca) eight rak'ahs saluting after every two rak'ahs. Abu Dawud said: Ahmad b. Salih said that the Messenger of Allah offered prayer in the forenoon on the...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
No one told us that the Prophet (ﷺ) had offered Duha prayer except Umm Hani. She said that the Prophet (ﷺ) had taken bath in her house on the day of the Conquest of Mecca and prayed eight rak'ahs. But...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
I asked 'Aishah: Did the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) pray in the Duha? She replied: No, except when he returned from his journey. I then asked: Did the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) recite the surahs combining each other? She said:...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) never offered prayer in the forenoon, but I offer it. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) would give up an action, though he liked it to do, lest the people should continue it and it is...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
I asked Jabir b. Samurah: Did you sit in the company of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) ? He replied: Yes, very often. He would not stand from the place he prayed the dawn prayer till the sunrise. When the...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Prayer by night and day should consist of pairs of rak'ahs.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Prayer is to be offered in two rak'ahs; and you should recite the tashahhud at the end of two rak'ahs, and express your distress and humility and raise your hands and say praying: O Allah, O...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said to al-Abbas ibn AbdulMuttalib: Abbas, my uncle, shall I not give you, shall I not present to you, shall I not donate to you, shall I not produce for you ten things? If you...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
AbulJawza' said: A man who attended the company of the Prophet (ﷺ) narrated to me (it is thought that he was Abdullah ibn Amr): The Prophet (ﷺ) said to me: Come to me tomorrow; I shall give you something, I...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
That an al-Ansari narrated to him: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said to Ja'far. He then narrated the tradition in like manner. This version has the words: "In the second prostration of the first rak'ah" in addition to the words...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
The Prophet (ﷺ) came to the mosque of Banu AbdulAshhal. He prayed the sunset prayer there. When they finished the prayer, he saw them praying the supererogatory prayer after it. He said: This is the prayer to be offered in...