Sunan Ibn Majah
Establishing the Prayer and the Sunnah Regarding Them
“I have never seen anyone whose prayer more closely resembles that of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) than so-and-so. He used to lengthen the first two Rak’ah of the Zuhr and shorten the last two Rak’ah, and he used to...
Sunan Ibn Majah
Establishing the Prayer and the Sunnah Regarding Them
“Thirty of the Companions of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) who had been at Badr came together and said: ‘Come, let us estimate the length of the recitation of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) for the prayer in which Qur’an...
Sunan Ibn Majah
Establishing the Prayer and the Sunnah Regarding Them
“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to recite when leading us in the first two Rak’ah of the Zuhr prayer, and sometimes he would recite such that we could hear the Verse.”
Sunan Ibn Majah
Establishing the Prayer and the Sunnah Regarding Them
“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to lead us for the Zuhr, and we would hear him reciting a Verse after the Verses from Surat Luqman (31) and Adh-Dhariyat (51).”
Sunan Ibn Majah
Establishing the Prayer and the Sunnah Regarding Them
“(She was) Lubabah” that she heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) reciting ‘By the winds sent forth one after another...’ in the Maghrib.
Sunan Ibn Majah
Establishing the Prayer and the Sunnah Regarding Them
“I heard the Prophet (ﷺ) reciting At-Tur (52) in the Maghrib.” In a different narration, Jubair said: “And when I heard him recite: ‘Were they created by nothing? Or were they themselves the creators?’ up to: ‘Then let their listener...
Sunan Ibn Majah
Establishing the Prayer and the Sunnah Regarding Them
“The Prophet (ﷺ) used to recite in the Maghrib: ‘Say: O you disbelievers!’ and ‘Say: He is Allah, (the) One.’”
Sunan Ibn Majah
Establishing the Prayer and the Sunnah Regarding Them
“I heard him reciting ‘By the fig, and the olive’.”
Sunan Ibn Majah
Establishing the Prayer and the Sunnah Regarding Them
“I have never heard any man with a better voice or who recites better than him.”
Sunan Ibn Majah
Establishing the Prayer and the Sunnah Regarding Them
“Recite ‘By the sun and its brightness,’[Al-Shams (91)] ‘Glorify the Name of your Lord, the Most High,’ [Al-A’la (87)] ‘By the night as it envelops,’ or, ‘Read! In the Name of your Lord Who has created.’”
Sunan Ibn Majah
Establishing the Prayer and the Sunnah Regarding Them
“There is no prayer for the one who does not recite Fatihatil-Kitab in it.”
Sunan Ibn Majah
Establishing the Prayer and the Sunnah Regarding Them
“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: ‘Whoever performs a prayer in which he does not recite Ummul Qur’an (the Mother of the Qur’an, i.e., Al- Fatihah), it is deficient; not complete.’” I said: ‘O Abu Hurairah, sometimes I am behind...
Sunan Ibn Majah
Establishing the Prayer and the Sunnah Regarding Them
“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: ‘There is no prayer for the one who does not recite in every Rak’ah: Al-Hamd (Al-Fatihah) and a Surah whether in an obligatory prayer or another.’”
Sunan Ibn Majah
Establishing the Prayer and the Sunnah Regarding Them
“I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: ‘Every prayer in which the Ummul-Kitab (the Mother of the Book) is not recited is deficient.’”
Sunan Ibn Majah
Establishing the Prayer and the Sunnah Regarding Them
“Every prayer in which Fatihatil-Kitab (the Opening of the Book) is not recited, it is deficient, it is deficient.”
Sunan Ibn Majah
Establishing the Prayer and the Sunnah Regarding Them
“Should I recite when the Imam is reciting?” He said: “A man asked the Prophet (ﷺ) whether there was recitation in every prayer. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: ‘Yes.’ A man among the people said: ‘It has become obligatory.’”
Sunan Ibn Majah
Establishing the Prayer and the Sunnah Regarding Them
“We used to recite the Opening of the Book and a Surah behind the Imam in the first two Rak’ah of the Zuhr and the ‘Asr, and in the last wo Rak’ah (we would recite) the Opening of the Book.”
Sunan Ibn Majah
Establishing the Prayer and the Sunnah Regarding Them
“There are two pauses which I memorized from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), but `Imran bin Husain denied that. We wrote to Ubayy bin Ka`b in Al-Madinah, and he wrote that Samurah had indeed memorized them.” (One of the narrators)...
Sunan Ibn Majah
Establishing the Prayer and the Sunnah Regarding Them
“I memorized two pauses in the prayer, a pause before reciting and a pause when bowing. ‘Imran bin Husain denied that, so they wrote to Al-Madinah, to Ubayy bin Ka’b, and he said that Samurah was speaking the truth.”
Sunan Ibn Majah
Establishing the Prayer and the Sunnah Regarding Them
“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: ‘The Imam has been appointed to be followed, so when he says Allahu Akbar, then say Allahu Akbar, when he recites, then listen attentively; when he says: Not (the way) of those who earned...