Prayer & Salah

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

The mosque (of the Prophet) during his lifetime was built with bricks, its roof with branches of the palm-tree, and its pillars with palm-wood, as Mujahid said: Abu Bakr did not add anything to it. But 'Umar added to it;...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

The pillars of the mosque of the Prophet (ﷺ) during the life time of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) were made of the trunks of the palm-tree; they covered from the above by twigs of the palm-tree; they decayed during...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came over to Medina and encamped at the upper side of Medina among the tribe known as Banu 'Amr b. 'Awf. He stayed among them for fourteen days. He then sent someone to call Banu al-Najjar....

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

The Mosque (of the Prophet) was built in the land of Banu al-Najjar which contained crops, palm trees and graves of the disbelievers. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Sell it to me for some price. They (Banu al-Najjar) replied:...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) commanded us to build mosques in different localities (i.e. in the locality of each tribe separately) and that they should be kept clean and be perfumed.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

After (praising Allah and blessing the Prophet) that: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to command us to build mosques in our localities and keep them well and clean.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

I said: Messenger of Allah, tell us the legal injunction about (visiting) Bayt al-Muqaddas (the dome of the Rock at Jerusalem). The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: go and pray there. All the cities at that time were effected by...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

I asked Ibn 'Umar about the gravel spread pin the mosque. He replied: One night the rain fell and the earth was moistened. A man was bringing the gravel (broken stones) in his cloth and spreading it beneath him. When...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

It was said that when a man removed gravels from the mosque, they adjured him.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

The gravels adjure the person when removes them from the mosque.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The rewards of my people were presented before me, so much so that even the reward for removing a mote by a person from the mosque was presented to me. The sins of my people were...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

If we left this door for women (it would have been better). Nafi' said: Ibn 'Umar did not enter (the door) until his death. The other except 'Abd al-Warith said: This was said by 'Umar (and not by Ibn 'Umar)...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

This tradition has been reported by 'Umar b. al-Khattab through a different chain of narrators. He narrated it to the same effect and that is more correct.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

‘Umar b. al-Khattab used to prohibit (men) to enter through the door reserved for women.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

when any of you enters the mosque he should invoke blessing on the prophet (ﷺ) and then he should say: O Allah, open to me the gates of thy mercy. And when he goes out, he should say: O Allah,...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

I met ‘Uqbah b. Muslim and said to him: it has been reported to me that someone has narrated to you from the prophet (ﷺ) that when he entered the mosque, he would say: I seek refuge in Allah, the...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

Abu Qatadah reported the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) as saying; when any one of you enters the mosque, he should pray two RAKAHS before sitting down.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

then he may remain sitting (after praying two RAKAHS) or may go for his work.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

O Allah, forgives him; O Allah, have mercy on him.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

Nothing prevents one from going home to one’s family except prayer.