Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
When one of you dozes in prayer he should sleep till his sleep is gone, for when one of you prays while he is dozing, perhaps he might curse himself if he begs pardon of Allah.
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Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
When one of you dozes in prayer he should sleep till his sleep is gone, for when one of you prays while he is dozing, perhaps he might curse himself if he begs pardon of Allah.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: When one of you gets up by night (to pray), and falters in reciting the Qur'an (due to sleep), and he does not understand what he utters, he should sleep.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) entered the mosque (and saw that) a rope tied between two pillars. He asked: What is this rope (for) ? The people told him: This is (for) Hamnah b. Jahsh who prays (here). When she...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: He who misses him daily round of recital or part of it due to sleep and he recites it between the dawn and the noon prayers, will be reckoned as if he recited...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Any person who offers prayer at night regularly but (on a certain night) he is dominated by sleep will be given the reward of praying. His sleep will be almsgiving.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: Our Lord who is blessed and exalted descends every night to the lowest heaven when the last one-third of the night remains, and says: Who supplicated Me so that I may answer him...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
Allah, the Exalted, would awaken the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) at night. When the dawn came, he would his finish daily round of recital.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
I asked 'Aishah about the prayer of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), and I said to her: At what time he prayed at night ? She said: When he heard the cock crow, he got up and prayed.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
When he was with me he would sleep at dawn. By this she referred to the Prophet (ﷺ).
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
When anything distressed the Prophet (ﷺ), he prayed.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
I used to live with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) at night. I would bring water for his ablution and his need. He asked: Ask me. I said: Your company in Paradise. He said: Is there anything other than that...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
(This verse means) the prayer and vigil at night.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
They (the people) used to pray between the Maghrib and 'Isha. The version of Yahya adds: The verse tatajafa junubuhum also means so.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: When one of you gets up at night, he should begin the prayer with two short rak'ahs.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
He should then prolong it afterwards as much as he likes. Abu Dawud said: This tradition has been transmitted by Hammad b. Salamah, Zuhair b. Mu'awiyah and a group of narrators from Hisham. They transmitted it as a statement of...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
The Prophet (ﷺ) was asked: which is the best action? He replied: To stand in prayer for a long time.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
A man asked the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) about the prayer at night. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Prayer during the night should consist of pairs of rak'ahs, but if one of you fears the morning is near he...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
The Prophet's (ﷺ) recitation was loud enough for one who was in the inner chamber to hear it when he was in the house.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
The Prophet's (ﷺ) recitation at night was partly in a loud voice and partly in a low voice. Abu Dawud said: The name of Abu Khalid al-Walibi is Hurmuz.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
The Prophet (ﷺ) went out at night and found AbuBakr praying in a low voice, and he passed Umar ibn al-Khattab who was raising his voice while praying. When they both met the Prophet (ﷺ) together, the Prophet (ﷺ) said:...