Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Prostration while reciting the Qur'an
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) recited surah Sad on the pulpit. When he reached the place of prostration (in the surah), he descended and prostrated himself and the people prostrated with him. When the next day came, he recited it....
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Prostration while reciting the Qur'an
In the year of Conquest the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) recited a verse at which a prostration should be made and all the people prostrated themselves. Some were mounted, and some were prostrating themselves on the ground, and those who...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Prostration while reciting the Qur'an
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) would recite to us a surah (according to the version of Ibn Numair) outside the prayer (the agreed version goes), then he would prostrate along with him, and none of us could find a place...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Prostration while reciting the Qur'an
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to recite the Qur'an to us. When he came upon the verse containing prostration, he would utter the takbir (Allah is most great) and we would prostrate ourselves along with him. The narrator 'Abd...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Prostration while reciting the Qur'an
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) prostrated himself at night when reciting the Qur'an. He said repeatedly: My face prostrates itself to Him Who created it and brought forth its hearing and seeing by His might and power.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Prostration while reciting the Qur'an
When we came to Medina accompanying the caravan, I used to preach after the dawn prayer, and prostrate on account of the recitation of the Qur'an. Ibn Umar prohibited me three times, but I did not cease doing that. He...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Allah is single (witr) and loves what is single, so observe the witr, you who follow the Qur'an.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
A bedouin said: What are you saying ? He replied: This is neither for you, nor for your companions.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came out to us and said: Allah the Exalted has given you an extra prayer which is better for you then the red camels (i.e. high breed camels). This is the witr which Allah has...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: The witr is a duty, so he who does not observe it does not belong to us; the witr is a duty, so he who does not observe it does not belong...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
Ibn Muhayriz said: A man from Banu Kinanah, named al-Makhdaji, heard a person called AbuMuhammad in Syria, saying: The witr is a duty (wajib). Al-Makhdaji said: So I went to Ubadah ibn as-Samit and informed him. Ubadah said: AbuMuhammad told...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
A man who lived in the desert asked the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) about the prayer at night. He made a sign with his two fingers-in this way in pairs. The witr consists of one rak'ah towards the end in...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The witr is a duty for every Muslim so if anyone wishes to observe it with five rak'ahs, he may do so; if anyone wishes to observe it with three, he may do so, and if...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to observe witr with (reciting) "Glorify the name of thy Lord, the most High" (Surah 87), "Say O disbelievers" (Surah 109), and "Say, He is Allah, the One, Allah, the eternally besought of all"...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
AbdulAziz ibn Jurayj said: I asked Aisha, mother of the believers: With which (surah) the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to observe witr? (She reported same as in the Hadith of Ubayy ibn Ka'b, No. 1418) This version adds: In...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) taught me some words that I say during the witr. (The version of Ibn Jawwas has: I say them in the supplication of the witr.) They were: "O Allah, guide me among those Thou hast...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
The version has the words: "He would recite the supplication of the witr." He did not mention the words: "I say them in the witr." Abu Dawud said: The name of Abu al-Hawra' is Rabi'ah b. Shaiban.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to say at the end of his witr: "O Allah, I seek refuge in Thy good pleasure from Thy anger, and in Thy forgiveness from Thy punishment, and I seek refuge in Thy mercy...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
Muhammad reported on the authority of some of his teachers that Ubayy b. Ka'b led them in prayer during Ramadan. He used to recite the supplication (in the witr) during the second half of Ramadan.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
Al-Hasan reported: Umar ibn al-Khattab gathered the people (in tarawih prayer) behind Ubayy ibn Ka'b (who led them). He used to lead them for twenty days (during Ramadan, and would not recite the supplication except in the second half of...