Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to prolong the recitation of the Qur'an in the two rak'ahs after the sunset prayer until the people praying in the mosque dispersed. Abu Dawud said: This has been reported by Nasr al-Mujaddir from...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
This tradition from the Prophet (ﷺ) without mentioning the name of the Companion in the chain (in the mursal form). Abu dawud said: I heard Muhammad b. Humaid say: I heard Ya'qub say: Anything I narrated to you from Ja'far...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
Shurayh ibn Hani said: I asked Aisha about the prayer of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). She said: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) never offered the night prayer and thereafter came to me but he offered four or six rak'ahs...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
In Surat al-Muzzammil (73), the verse: "Keep vigil at night but a little, a half thereof" (2-3) has been abrogated by the following verse: "He knoweth that ye count it not, and turneth unto you in mercy. Recite then of...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
When the opening verses of Surah Al-muzammil was revealed, the Companions would pray as long as they would pray during Ramadan until its last verses were revealed. The period between the revelation of its opening and the last verses was...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: When one you sleeps, the devil ties three knots at the back of his neck, sealing every knot with, "You have a long night, so sleep." So if one awakes and mentions Allah,...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
Do not give up prayer at night, for the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) would not leave it. Whenever he fell ill or lethargic, he would offer it sitting.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: May Allah have mercy on a man who gets up at night and prays, and awakens his wife; if she refuses, he should sprinkle water on her face. May Allah have mercy on a woman who...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If a man awakens his wife at night, and then both pray or both offer two rak'ahs together, the (name of the )man will be recorded among those who mention the name of Allah, and the...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
When one of you dozes in prayer he should sleep till his sleep is gone, for when one of you prays while he is dozing, perhaps he might curse himself if he begs pardon of Allah.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: When one of you gets up by night (to pray), and falters in reciting the Qur'an (due to sleep), and he does not understand what he utters, he should sleep.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) entered the mosque (and saw that) a rope tied between two pillars. He asked: What is this rope (for) ? The people told him: This is (for) Hamnah b. Jahsh who prays (here). When she...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: He who misses him daily round of recital or part of it due to sleep and he recites it between the dawn and the noon prayers, will be reckoned as if he recited...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Any person who offers prayer at night regularly but (on a certain night) he is dominated by sleep will be given the reward of praying. His sleep will be almsgiving.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: Our Lord who is blessed and exalted descends every night to the lowest heaven when the last one-third of the night remains, and says: Who supplicated Me so that I may answer him...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
Allah, the Exalted, would awaken the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) at night. When the dawn came, he would his finish daily round of recital.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
I asked 'Aishah about the prayer of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), and I said to her: At what time he prayed at night ? She said: When he heard the cock crow, he got up and prayed.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
When he was with me he would sleep at dawn. By this she referred to the Prophet (ﷺ).
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
When anything distressed the Prophet (ﷺ), he prayed.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
I used to live with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) at night. I would bring water for his ablution and his need. He asked: Ask me. I said: Your company in Paradise. He said: Is there anything other than that...