Prayer & Salah

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

"The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) asked me: 'How will you act, Abu Dharr, when you are under rulers who kill prayer or delay it (beyond its proper time) ?' I said: 'Messenger of Allah, what do you command me ?'...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

Amr ibn Maymun al-Awdi said: Mu'adh ibn Jabal, the Messenger of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came to us in Yemen, I heard his takbir (utterance of AllahuAkbar) in the dawn prayer. He was a man with loud voice. I...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

After me you will come under rulers who will be detained from saying prayer at its proper time by (their) works until its time has run out, so offer prayer at its proper time. A man asked him: Messenger of...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: After me you will be ruled by rulers who will delay the prayer and it will be to your credit but to their discredit. So pray with them so long as they pray facing...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) returned from the Battle of Khaibar, he travelled during the night. When we felt sleep, he halted for rest. Addressing Bilal he said: Keep vigilance at night for us. But Bilal who was leaning...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

Another version of the above tradition adds: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Go away from this place of yours where inadvertence took hold of you. He then commanded Bilal who called for prayer and announced that the prayer in...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

"The Prophet (ﷺ) was on a journey. The Prophet (ﷺ) took a turn and I also took a turn with him. He said: 'Look!' I said: 'This is a rider; these are two riders; and these are three' until we...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

'Abd Allah b. Rabah al-Ansari, whom the Ansar called faqih (juries), came to us from Medina, and reported us on the authority of Abu Qatadah al-Ansari, the horseman of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) saying: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

"Allah takes your souls as He wishes, and returns them as He wishes. Stand up and call the Adhan to prayer." They (the Companions) stood and performed ablution. When the sun rose high, the Prophet (ﷺ) stood and led the...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

"He performed ablution when the sun had arisen high and led them in prayer."

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

There is no remissness in sleep, it is only when one is awake that there is remissness when you delay saying the prayer till the time for the next prayer comes.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

If any one forgets a prayer or oversleeps, he should observe it when he remembers it ; there is no expiation for it except that.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was on his journey. They (the people) slept abandoning the Fajr prayer. They awoke by the heat of the sun. Then they travelled a little until the sun rose high. He (the Prophet) commanded the...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

We were in the company of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) during one of his journeys. He overslept abandoning the morning prayer until the sun had arisen. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) awoke and said: Go away from this place....

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

Yazid b. Salih (instead of Yazid b. Sulaih).

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

"He (Bilal) called for prayer unhurriedly."

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

We proceeded with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) on the occasion of al-Hudaybiyyah. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Who will keep watch for us? Bilal said: I (shall do). The overslept till the sun arose. The Prophet (ﷺ) awoke...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

I was not commanded to build high mosques. Ibn Abbas said: You will certainly adorn them as the Jews and Christians did.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The Last Hour will not come until people vie with one another about mosques.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

The Prophet (nay peace be upon him) commanded him to build a mosque at Ta'if where the idols were placed.