Prayer & Salah

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr

This tradition has also been transmitted by Sa'd (b. Abi Waqqas) from the Prophet (ﷺ) in a similar manner through a different chain of narrators.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr

Ubaydullah ibn Yazid said: AbuLubabah passed by us and we followed him till he entered his house, and we also entered it. There was a man in a rusty house and in shabby condition. I heard him say: I heard...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr

This means that the Qur'an makes a man neglect all other things, and be content with it.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr

Allah has not listened to anything as He does to a Prophet chanting the Qur'an with a loud voice.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: No man recites the Qur'an, then forgets it, but will meet Allah on the Day of Judgment in a maimed condition (or empty-handed, or with no excuse).

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr

I heard Hisham b. Hakim (b. Hizam) reciting Surah al-Furqan in a different manner from my way of reciting, and the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) had taught me to recite it. I nearly spoke sharply to him, but I delayed...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr

These modes of reading aimed at the same point, not different in respect of lawful and unlawful.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: "Ubayy, I was asked to recite the Qur'an and I was asked: 'In one mode or two modes?' The angel that accompanied me said: 'Say, in two modes', I said: 'In two modes', I was asked...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr

The Prophet (ﷺ) was present at the pool of Banu Ghifar, Gabriel came to him and said: "Allah has commanded you to make your community read (the Qur'an) in one harf. He (the Prophet) said: 'I beg Allah His pardon...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Supplication (du'a') is itself the worship. (He then recited:) "And your Lord said: Call on Me, I will answer you" (xI.60).

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr

Ibn Sa'd said: My father (Sa'd ibn AbuWaqqas) heard me say: O Allah, I ask Thee for Paradise, its blessings, its pleasure and such-and-such, and such-and-such; I seek refuge in Thee from Hell, from its chains, from its collars, and...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) heard a person supplicating during prayer. He did not mention the greatness of Allah, nor did he invoke blessings on the Prophet (ﷺ). The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: He made haste. He then called...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) liked comprehensive supplication and abandoned other kinds.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr

"One of you should not say (in his supplication): O Allah, forgive me if You please, show mercy to me if You please.' Rather, be firm in your asking, for no one can force Him."

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr

"One of you is granted an answer (to his supplication) provided he does not say: 'I prayed but I was not granted an answer.'"

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Do not cover the walls. He who sees the letter of his brother without his permission, sees Hell-fire. Supplicate Allah with the palms of your hands; do not supplicate Him with their backs upwards. When you...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: When you make requests to Allah, do so with the palms of your hands, and not backs, upwards. Abu Dawud said: The narrator Sulaiman b. 'Abd al-Hamid said: according to us Malik b. Yasar was a...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr

I saw the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) supplicating Allah in this manner with the palms of his hands and also with their backs upwards.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Your Lord is munificent and generous, and is ashamed to turn away empty the hands of His servant when he raises them to Him.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr

Ikrimah quoted Ibn Abbas as saying: When asking for something you should raise your hands opposite to your shoulders; when asking for forgiveness you should point with one finger; and when making an earnest supplication you should spread out both...