Prayer & Salah

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

The words “then he did not repeat“ were narrated to us later on at Kufah by him (Yazid). Abu Dawud said: This tradition has also been transmitted by Hushaim, Khalid, and Ibn Idris from Yazid. They did not mention the...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

I saw that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) raised his hands when he began prayer, but he did not raise them until he finished (prayer). Abu Dawud said: This tradition is not sound.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) began his prayer, he raised his hands extensively.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

I heard Ibn al-Zubair say: Setting the feet right and placing one hand on the other is a sunnah.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

AbuUthman an-Nahdi said: When Ibn Mas'ud prayed he placed his left hand on the right. The Prophet (ﷺ) saw him and placed his right hand on his left one.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

AbuJuhayfah said: Ali said that it is a sunnah to place one hand on the other in prayer below the navel.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

I saw Ali (Allah be pleased with him) catching hold of his left hand) by his right hand on the wrist above the navel. Abu Dawud said: Sa'id b. Jubair narrated the words: "above the navel". Abu Mijlaz reported the...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

(The established way of folding hands is) to hold the hands by the hands in prayer below the navel. Abu Dawud said: I heard Ahmad b. Hanbal say: The narrator 'Abd al-Rahman b. Ishaq al-Kufi is weak (i.e. not reliable).

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to place his right hand on his left hand, then he folded them strictly on his chest in prayer.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) stood up for prayer, he uttered the takbir (Allah is most great), then said: I have turned my face, breaking with all others, towards Him Who created the heavens and the earth, and I...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) stood up for (offering) obligatory prayer, he uttered the takbir (Allah is most great) and raised his hands opposite to his shoulders, and he did so when he finished the recitation (of the Qur’an)...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

Ibn al-Munkadir, Ibn Abi Farwah and a number of jurists of Madina said to me: When you recite the supplication “I am first of the Muslims,” say instead; “I am one of the Muslims”.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

A man came panting to join the row of worshippers, and said: Allah is most great; praise be to Allah, much praise, good and blessed. When the Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) finished his prayer, he asked: Which of you is the...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

Jabir saw the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) observing prayer. (The narrator Amr said: I do not know which prayer he was offering.) He (the Prophet) said: Allah is altogether great; Allah is altogether great; Allah is altogether great; and praise...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

I head the Prophet(ﷺ) uttering (all these supplications) in a supererogatory prayer; he narrated the tradition in a similar manner.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

Asim ibn Humayd said: I asked Aisha: By what words the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) would begin his supererogatory prayer at night? She replied: You ask me about a thing of which no one asked me before you. When he...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

I asked ‘A’ishah: By what words the Prophet(ﷺ) used to begin his prayer when he stood up at night (to offer tahajjud prayer). She said: When he stood up at night, he began his prayer by saying: O Allah, Lord...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

When he stood up, he said the takbir (Allah is most great) and said. . . .

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

There is no harm in uttering supplication in prayer, in its beginning, in its middle, and in the end, in obligatory prayer or other.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

One day we were praying behind the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) raised his head after bowing, he said: Allah listened to him who praised Him. A man behind the Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) said: O...