The Book on Salat (Prayer)

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Chapter 143: What Has Been Related About The Beginning Of The Qiblah

Al-Bara bin Azib narrated

"When Allah's Messener arrived in Al-Madinah, he faced Bait Al-Maqdis in Salat for sixteen or seventeen months. Allah's Messenger longed to face the direction of the Ka'bah, so Allah Most High revealed: Verily! We have seen the turning of your face towards the heaven. Surely We shall turn you o a Qiblah that shall please you. So turn your face in the direction of Al-Masjid Al-Haram.So he faced the Ka'bah, and he liked that. A man performed the Asr prayer with him, then passed by some of the Ansar who were bowing in Salat for Asr while facing Bait Al-Maqdis." He told them that he had faced the direction of the Ka'bah, so they changed (their direction) while they were bowing." [He said:] There are narrations on this topic from Ibn Umar, Ibn Abbas, Umarah bin Aws, Amr bin Awf Al-Muzani and Anas.

Ibn Umar said

"They were bowing during the Subh (Fajr) Prayer."

Chapter 147: What Has Been Related About Salat In Sheep Pens And The Resting Area Of Camels

(Another chain) from Abu Hurairah,

from the Prophet and it is the same or similar.

Chapter 149: What Has Been Related About Salat Toward One's Mount

Ibn Umar narrated

"The Prophet performed Salat towards his she-camel, or his mount, and he would perform Salat while on his mount, whichever direction it was facing."

Chapter 150: What Has Been Related About 'When Supper Is Present And The Iqamah Is Called For Salat Then Begin With Supper'

Anas conveyed that

the Prophet said: "When supper is present and the Iqamah for Salat has been called, then begin with supper."

Chapter 153: What Has Been Related About It Being Disliked For The Imam To Specify Himself With Supplications

Thawban narrated that

the Prophet said: "It is not allowed for a man to look into the interior of a man's house until he has been given permission, for if he looks, then he has entered. And one who leads people (in Salat) should not supplicate for himself alone with the exclusion of his congregation. If he does, then he has betrayed them. And one is not to stand for Salat while he has to urinate."

Chapter 154: What Has Been Related [About] Whoever Leads People (In Salat) While They Dislike Him

Anas bin Malik narrated

"Allah's Messenger cursed three people: A man who leads people (in Salat) while they dislike him, a woman who spends a night while her husband is angry with her, and a man who hears: 'Hayya Alal Falah (come to success)' then does not respond."

Chapter 159: What Has Been Related About Making Signals During Salat

Suhaib narrated

"I passed by Allah's Messenger (S) while he was performing Salat, so I said greeted him with Salam, and he returned it by making signals." He said: "I do not know except that he said: 'He indicated with his finger.'"

Chapter 162: What Has Been Related About The Salat While Sitting Is Half Of The Salat While Standing

Imran bin Husain narrated

"I asked Allah's Messenger (S) about the Salat for a man who is sitting. He said: 'Whoever performs Salat while standing then that is more virtuous. And whoever performs Salat while sitting, then he gets half the rewards of the one standing, and whoever performs Salat while lying down, then he gets half the rewards of the one sitting.'"

Chapter 163: [What Has Been Related] About Voluntary Prayers While Sitting

Hafsah, the wife of the Prophet (S), narrated

"I did not see Allah's Messenger (S) praying voluntary prayers sitting until the year before he died. Then he would perform Salat for the voluntary prayers sitting, and he would recite a Surah and prolong it such that it would be longer than the longest of them."

Chapter 168: What Has Been Related About It Being Disliked To Blow During Salat

(Another chain) in which Abu Hamzah narrated

"A boy of ours named Rabah."

Chapter 172: What Has Been Related About It Being Disliked to Intertwine The Fingers During Salat

Ka'b bun Ujrah narrated that

Allah's Messenger (S) said: "When one of you performs Wudu and does so well, then he leaves intending to go to the Masjid, then let him not intertwine his fingers, for indeed he is in Salat."

Chapter 174: What Has Been Related About Performing Many Bowings and Prostrations [And Its Virtues]

Ma'dan bin Talhah Al Yamari said

"I met Thawban the freed slave of Allah's Messenger (S) and said to him, 'Guide me to a deed by which Allah benefit me, and for which Allah will admit me into Paradise.' He was silent for quite a while, then he turned to me and said: 'Perform prostrations, for I heard Allah's Messenger (S) saying: 'No worshipper performs a prostration to Allah except that by it, Allah will raise him a level, and erase a sin from him for it.'"

Chapter 176: What Has Been Related About The Prostrations Of As-Sahw Before The Salaam

There is a narrated with another chain that Abu Hurairah and ['Abdullah bin] As-Sa'id Al-Qari' would perform the prostrations of As-Sahw before the Taslim.Abu 'Eisa said

Ahmad and Ishaq said: "When a man stands up after two Rak'ah, then he performs the prostrations for As-Sahw before the Salam according to the Hadith of Ibn Buhainah."

'Abdullah bin Buhainah is 'Abdullah bin Malik [so he is] Ibn Buhainah (because) Malik is his father and Buhainah is his mother.

I was informed of this by Ishaq bin Mansur from 'Ali [bin 'Abdullah] bin Al-Madini.

Abu 'Eisa said: The people of knowledge differ over when a man is to perform the prostrations of As-Sahw, is it before the Salam or after it. Some of them thought that her performs them after the Salam. This is the view of Sufyan Ath-Thawri and the people of Al-Kufah. Some of them said he performs them before the Salam. This is the view of most of the Fuqaha among the people of Al-Madinah, like Yahya bin Sa'eed, Rabi'ah, and others. This is also the saying of Ash-Shafi'i.

Some of them said when he adds to the Salat, then it is after the Salam, and when he leaves something out, then before the Salam. This is the view of Malik bin Anas.

Ahmad said: "Whatever is reported from the Prophet (ﷺ) about the prostrations from As-Sahw then it is acted upon in either case." He saw that when one stands after Rak'ah then according to the Hadith of Ibn Buhainah, he is to perform the prostrations before the Salam. When he prays five for Zuhr, then performs the prostrations after the Salam, and if he says Salam after two Rak'ahs of Zuhr or 'Asr then he performs the prostrations after the Salam. All of them are to be acted upon depending upon the case, and in the cases where nothing is reported from the Prophet (ﷺ), then two prostrations are performed for As-Sahw before the Salam.

Ishaq said the same as Ahmad about all of this, with the exception that he said that for every case of As-Sahw that is not mentioned from the Prophet (ﷺ), then if it is an addition to the Salat, then prostrations are performed after the Salam, and if it is something that was left out, then the prostrations are performed before the Salam.

Chapter 148: What Has Been Related About Salat On A Beast Whichever Direction It Is Facing

Jabir narrated

"The Prophet dispatched me for something he needed. I came to him while he was performing Salat on his mount, heading east, he made the prostrations lower than the bowing."

Chapter 152: What Has Been Related [About] 'Whoever Visits A People, He Does Not Lead Them In Salat'

Abu Atiyyah narrated that

a man among them said: "Malik bin Al-Huwairith came to us in our Musalla to narrate. One day when it was time for Salat, we told him to go ahead (to lead the prayer). He said: 'Let one of you go forward, until I narrate to you why I would not go forward (to lead prayer): I heard Allah's Messenger saying: "Whoever visits a people, then he does not lead them, but a man among them leads them."

Chapter 155: What Has Been Related (On the Prophet's Saying) 'When The Imam Performs Salat While Seated, then You (People) Perform Salat Seated'

Anas bin Malik narrated

"Allah's Messenger fell from a horse and got injured, so he led Salat sitting and we also offered Salat sitting. When he completed the Salat he said: "The Imam is appointed to be followed; when he says the Takbir then say the Takbir, when he bows, then bow, and when he raises his head, then raise your heads. When he says: "Sami' Allahu liman hamidah (Allah listens to those who praise him)" then say: "Rabbana wa lakal-hamd. (O our Lord! And all praise is Yours.)" and when he prostrates, then prostrate, and when he performs Salat sitting, then pray sitting altogether.'"

Chapter 156: Something Else About That

Anas narrated

"Allah's Messenger performed Salat during his illness behind Abu Bakr while seated, wrapped in a garment."

Chapter 164: What Has Been Related About The Prophet (S) Saying: "I Hear The Crying Of A Small Boy During Salat and Shorten It"

Anas bin Malik narrated that

Allah's Messenger said: "Indeed I hear the crying of a small boy while I am in Salat, so I shorten it in fear that his mother may be tormented."

Chapter 166: What Has Been Related About As-Sadl Being Disliked During Salat

Abu Hurairah narrated

"Allah's Messenger (S) prohibited As-Sadl in the Salat."