Prayer & Salah

Sunan Abi Dawud

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

Earnest supplication should be made like this: he raised his hand and made his palms in the direction of his face.

Sunan Abi Dawud

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

The above mentioned tradition has also been transmitted in a similar manner by Ibn 'Abbas from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ).

Sunan Abi Dawud

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

When the Prophet (ﷺ) made supplication (to Allah) he would raise his hands and wipe his face with his hands.

Sunan Abi Dawud

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

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) heard a man saying: O Allah, I ask Thee, I bear witness that there is no god but Thou, the One, He to Whom men repair, Who has not begotten, and has not been begotten,...

Sunan Abi Dawud

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

"He has asked Allah using His Greatest Name."

Sunan Abi Dawud

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

I was sitting with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and a man was offering prayer. He then made supplication: O Allah, I ask Thee by virtue of the fact that praise is due to Thee, there is no deity but...

Sunan Abi Dawud

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

"Allah's Greatest Names is in these two verses: "And your Ilaah (God) is One Ilaah (God), none has the right to be worshipped but He, the Ever-Merciful, the Mercy-Giving' and the beginning of Surah Al 'Imran, "A.L.M Allah, there is...

Sunan Abi Dawud

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

Ata' said: The quilt of Aisha was stolen. She began to curse the person who had stolen it. The Prophet (ﷺ) began to tell her: Do not lighten him. Abu Dawud said: The meaning of the Arabic words la tasbikhi...

Sunan Abi Dawud

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

I sought permission of the Prophet (ﷺ) to perform umrah. He gave me permission and said: My younger brother, do not forget me in your supplication. He (Umar) said: He told me a word that pleased me so much so...

Sunan Abi Dawud

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

The Prophet (ﷺ) passed by me while I was supplicating by pointing with two fingers of mine. He said: Point with one finger; point with one finger. He then himself pointed with the forefinger.

Sunan Abi Dawud

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

Once Sa'd, with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), visited a woman in front of whom were some date-stones or pebbles which she was using as a rosary to glorify Allah. He (the Prophet) said: I tell you something which would...

Sunan Abi Dawud

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

The Prophet (ﷺ) commanded them (the women emigrants) to be regular (in remembering Allah by saying): "Allah is most great"; "Glory be to the King, the Holy"; "there is no god but Allah"; and that they should count them on...

Sunan Abi Dawud

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

I saw the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) counting the glorification of Allah on fingers. Ibn Qudamah said (in his version: "With his right hands".

Sunan Abi Dawud

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

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) went out from Juwayriyyah (wife of the Prophet). Earlier her name was Barrah, and he changed it. When he went out she was in her place of worship, and when he returned she was in...

Sunan Abi Dawud

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

AbuDharr said: Prophet of Allah. The wealthy people have all the rewards; they pray as we pray; they fast as we fast; and they have surplus wealth which they give in charity; but we have no wealth which we may...

Sunan Abi Dawud

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

"Mu'awiyah wrote to al-Mughirah b. Shu'bah: 'What would the the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) recite when he gave Taslim (salutation) in the prayer ?' Al-Mughirah dictated and wrote to Mu'awiyah: 'The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to say (at the...

Sunan Abi Dawud

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

"I heard 'Abd Allah b. al-Zubair saying on the pulpit: When the Prophet (ﷺ) finished the prayer, he used to say (at the end of the prayer): 'There is no God but Allah, Alone, Who has no partner, to Him...

Sunan Abi Dawud

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

'Abd Allah b. al-Zubair used to recite this supplication after each (prescribed) prayer. He then narrated a similar supplication and added to it: "There is no might and no power except in Allah; there is no god but Allah Whom...

Sunan Abi Dawud

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

I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) saying (the version of Sulayman has: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to say) after his prayer:- "O Allah, our Lord and Lord of everything, I bear witness that Thou art the Lord...

Sunan Abi Dawud

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

When the Prophet (ﷺ) uttered salutation at the end of the prayer, he used to say: "O Allah, forgive me my former and latter sins, what I have kept secret and what I have done openly, and what I have...