Prayer & Salah

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

I saw Sharik who led us in the 'Asr 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.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

The Prophet (ﷺ) used to pray facing his camel.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

I never saw the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) 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.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Do not pray behind a sleeping or a talking person.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

The Prophet (ﷺ) 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...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

The distance between the place where the Prophet (ﷺ) stood and the qiblah (i.e. the sutrah or the wall of the mosque) was as much as to allow a goat to pass.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

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.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

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.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

I saw 'Ata 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 Sa'id al-Khudri reported the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

I narrate what I witnesses from Abu Sa'id and heard from him. Abu Sa'id entered upon Marwan and said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: When one of you prays facing any object which conceals him from people,...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

The Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) as saying: "If 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....

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

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...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

Qatadah said: I heard Jabir ibn Zayd who reported on the authority of Ibn Abbas; and Shu'bah reported the Prophet (ﷺ) as saying: A menstruating woman and a dog cut off the prayer. Abu Dawud said: Sa'id, Hisham and Hammam...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

Ikrimah reported on the authority of Ibn Abbas, saying: I think the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: When one of you prays without a sutrah, a dog, an ass, a pig, a Jew, a Magian, and a woman cut off...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

I saw a crippled man at Tabuk. He (the man) said: I passed riding a donkey in front of the Prophet(ﷺ) who was praying. He said (cursing him): O Allah, cut off his walking. Thenceforth I could not walk.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

He cut off our prayer, may Allah cut off his walking. Abu Dawud said: This version narrated by Mushir on the authority of Sa’id has: He cut off our prayer.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

I relate to you a tradition, but do not narrate it to anyone so long as I am alive: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) encamped at Tabuk near a date-palm and he said: This is our qiblah (direction for praying)....

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

We came down from the mountain pass of Adhaakhir in the company of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). The time of prayer came and he prayed facing a direction of prayer, and we were (standing) behind him. Then a kid...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

The Prophet (ﷺ) was (once) praying. A kid went passing in front of him and he kept on stopping it.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

I was sleeping in front of the Prophet (ﷺ) with my legs between him and the qiblah. Shu'bah said: I think she said: I was menstruating. Abu Dawud said: This tradition has been narrated by al-Zuhri, 'Ata, Abu Bakr b....