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Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) heard a person supplicating during prayer. He did not mention the greatness of Allah, nor did he invoke blessings on the Prophet (ﷺ). The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: He made haste. He then called...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) liked comprehensive supplication and abandoned other kinds.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
"One of you should not say (in his supplication): O Allah, forgive me if You please, show mercy to me if You please.' Rather, be firm in your asking, for no one can force Him."
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
"One of you is granted an answer (to his supplication) provided he does not say: 'I prayed but I was not granted an answer.'"
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Do not cover the walls. He who sees the letter of his brother without his permission, sees Hell-fire. Supplicate Allah with the palms of your hands; do not supplicate Him with their backs upwards. When you...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: When you make requests to Allah, do so with the palms of your hands, and not backs, upwards. Abu Dawud said: The narrator Sulaiman b. 'Abd al-Hamid said: according to us Malik b. Yasar was a...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
I saw the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) supplicating Allah in this manner with the palms of his hands and also with their backs upwards.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Your Lord is munificent and generous, and is ashamed to turn away empty the hands of His servant when he raises them to Him.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
Ikrimah quoted Ibn Abbas as saying: When asking for something you should raise your hands opposite to your shoulders; when asking for forgiveness you should point with one finger; and when making an earnest supplication you should spread out both...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
Earnest supplication should be made like this: he raised his hand and made his palms in the direction of his face.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
The above mentioned tradition has also been transmitted in a similar manner by Ibn 'Abbas from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ).
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
When the Prophet (ﷺ) made supplication (to Allah) he would raise his hands and wipe his face with his hands.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) heard a man saying: O Allah, I ask Thee, I bear witness that there is no god but Thou, the One, He to Whom men repair, Who has not begotten, and has not been begotten,...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
"He has asked Allah using His Greatest Name."
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
I was sitting with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and a man was offering prayer. He then made supplication: O Allah, I ask Thee by virtue of the fact that praise is due to Thee, there is no deity but...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
"Allah's Greatest Names is in these two verses: "And your Ilaah (God) is One Ilaah (God), none has the right to be worshipped but He, the Ever-Merciful, the Mercy-Giving' and the beginning of Surah Al 'Imran, "A.L.M Allah, there is...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
Ata' said: The quilt of Aisha was stolen. She began to curse the person who had stolen it. The Prophet (ﷺ) began to tell her: Do not lighten him. Abu Dawud said: The meaning of the Arabic words la tasbikhi...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
I sought permission of the Prophet (ﷺ) to perform umrah. He gave me permission and said: My younger brother, do not forget me in your supplication. He (Umar) said: He told me a word that pleased me so much so...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
The Prophet (ﷺ) passed by me while I was supplicating by pointing with two fingers of mine. He said: Point with one finger; point with one finger. He then himself pointed with the forefinger.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
Once Sa'd, with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), visited a woman in front of whom were some date-stones or pebbles which she was using as a rosary to glorify Allah. He (the Prophet) said: I tell you something which would...