Prayer & Salah

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to pray at night and she (‘A’ishah) would lie between him and the qiblah, sleeping on the bed on which he would sleep. When he wanted to offer the witr prayer, he awakened her...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

I used to sleep with my legs in front of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) when he would offer his prayer at night (i.e. tahajjud prayer offered towards the end of the night.). When he prostrated himself he struck my...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

"I used to be asleep while my legs would be in the front of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) while he was praying during the night. When he wanted to prostrate, he would prod my feet, so I would pull...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

I used to sleep lying between the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and the qiblah. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to pray when I (was lying) in front of him. When he wanted to offer the witr prayer - added...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

I came riding a donkey. Another version has: Ibn Abbas said: When I was near the age of the puberty I came riding a she-ass and found the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) leading the people in prayer at Mina. I...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

AbusSahba' said: We discussed the things that cut off the prayer according to Ibn Abbas. He said: I and a boy from Banu AbdulMuttalib came riding a donkey, and the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was leading the people in prayer....

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

Then two girls from Banu ‘Abd al-Muttalib came fighting together. He caught them. ‘Uthman (a narrator) said: He separated them. And Dawud (another narrator) said: He pulled away from the other, but he paid no attention to that.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came to us accompanied by Abbas when we were in open country belonging to us. He prayed in a desert with no sutrah in front of him, and a she-ass and a bitch of ours...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Nothing interrupt prayer, but repulse as much as you can anyone who passes in front of you, for he is just a devil.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

A youth from the Quraish passed in front of Abu Sa’id al-Khudri who was praying. He repulsed him. He returned again. He then repulsed him for the third time. When he finished the prayer, he said: Nothing cuts off prayer;...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

I saw the Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) that when he began prayer, he used to raise his hands opposite his shoulders, and he did so when he bowed, and raised his head after bowing. Sufyan(a narrator) once said: “When he raised...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to raise his hands opposite his shoulders when he began prayer, then he uttered takbir (Allah is most great) in the same condition, and then he bowed. And when he raised his back (head)...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

I was a small boy and I did not understand the prayer of my father. So Wa’Il b. ‘Alqamah reported Wa’il b. Hujr as saying: I offered prayer along with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). He used to raise his...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

He saw that when the Prophet(ﷺ) stood up to pray he raised his hands till they were in front of his shoulders and placed his thumbs opposite his ears; then he uttered the Takbir (Allah is most great).

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

Wa’il b.Hujr said that he saw the Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) raise his hands when he uttered the takbir (Allah is most great).

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

I purposely looked at the prayer of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), how he offered it. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) stood up, faced the direction of the qiblah and uttered the takbir (Allah is most great) and then raised...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

“He then placed his right hand on the back of his left palm and his wrist and forearm.” This also adds: “I then came back afterwards in a season when it was severe cold. I saw the people putting on...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

I witnessed the Prophet (ﷺ) raise his hands in front of his ears when he began to pray. I then came back and saw them (the people) raising their hands up to their chest when they began to pray. They...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

I came to the Prophet(ﷺ) during winter; I saw his companions raise their hands in their clothes in prayer.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

I am one among you who is more informed of the way the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) prayed. They said: Why, By Allah, you did not follow him more than us, nor did you remain in his company longer than...