The Book on Salat (Prayer)

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Chapter 56: : What Has Been Related About "Let Those Among You With Understanding And Reason Be Close To Me."

Abdullah (Ibn Masud) narrated that

the Prophet said: "Let those among you with understanding and reason be close to me, then those after them, then those after them. And do not separate or dissention will occur among your hearts, and beware of the commotion of the markets."

Chapter 57: What Has Been Related About The Dislike For Forming Rows Between Columns

Abdul-Hamid bin Mahmud said

"We prayed behind one of the Amirs, the people compelled us such that we prayed between two columns. When we had prayed, Anas bin Malik said: 'We would be prevented from this during the time of Allah's Messenger.'"

Chapter 58: What Has Been Related About Salat Behind The Line Alone

Hilal bin Yasar said

"Ziyad bin Abi Al-Ja'd took me by the hand while we were in Ar Raqqah, he made me stand before a Shaikh who was called Wabisah bin Ma'bad, from Bani Asad. Ziyad said: 'This Shaikh narrated to me that a prayed alone behind the row' - and the Shaikh was listening - 'so Allah's Messenger ordered him to repeat the Salat.'"

Wabisah bin Ma'bad narrated

"A man prayed alone behind the row s the Prophet ordered him to repeat the Salat."

Chapter 59: What Has Been Related About A Man Who Prays While Another Man Is With Him

Ibn Abbas narrated

"I prayed with the Prophet one night. I stood at his left, so Allah's Messenger took me by my head, from behind me, to put me on his right (side)."

Chapter 60: What Has Been Related About A Man Who Prays With Two Men

Samurah bin Jundub narrated

"Allah's Messenger ordered us that when we were three, then one of us should stand forward."

Chapter 61: What Has Been Related About A Man Who Prays And A Man And A Woman Are With Him

Anas bin Malik narrated

"My grandmother Mutalikah invited Allah's Messenger to a meal that she prepared. He ate from it, then said: 'Stand so tht we may lead you in prayer.'" He said: "I got a Hasir of our which had become dark because of prolonged use, so I washed it with water. Allah's Messenger stood on it, and the orphan and I aligned behind him and the only lady stood behind us. He (Allah's Messenger) led us in two Rak'ah of prayer and then left."

Chapter 62: [What Has Been Related About] Who Is Most Deserving Of Being The Imam

Abu Mas'ud narrated that

Allah's Messenger said: "The one who recites most of the Book of Allah is to lead the people (in prayers). If they are equal in recitation, then the most knowledgeable in the Sunnah among them. If they are equal regarding the Sunnah, then the earliest of them to emigrate. If they are equal in their emigration then the eldest among them. And a man is not to be led in prayer in the place of his authority, and his spot of esteem in his home is not to be sat on without his permission."

Chapter 63: What Has Been Related About: "When One Of You Leads The People In Prayer, Then Let Him Be Brief."

Abu Hurairah narrated that

the Prophet said: "When one of you leads the people in prayer then let him be brief, for indeed here are among them the young and the old, the weak and the ill. When one of you prays alone, then let him pray as he wishes."

Anas [bin Malik] narrated

"Allah's Messenger was among the lightest of people in Salat with its completeness."

Chapter 64: What Has Been Related About The Tahrim And Tahlil Of Salat

Abu Sa'eed narrated that

Allah's Messenger said: "the key to Salat is the purification, its Tahrim is the Takbir, and its Tahlilis the Taslim, and there is no Salat for one who did not recite Al-Hamd and a Surah in the obligatory (prayer) or other prayers."

Chapter 65: What Has Been Related About Spreading The Fingers With The Takbir

Abu Hurairah narrated

"When Allah's Messenger performed the Takbir for Salat he would spread his fingers."

Abu Hurairah narrated

"When Allah's Messenger would enter the Salat he would raise his hands while they were extended."

Chapter 66: [What Has Been Related] About the Virtue Of the First Takbir

Anas bin Malik narrated that

Allah's Messenger said: "Whoever performs Salat for Allah for forty days in congregation, catching the first Takbir, two absolutions are written for him: absolution from the Fire, and absolution from the Fire, and absolution from hypocrisy."

Chapter 67: What Is Said During The Opening Of The Salat

Abu Sa'eeed Al Khudri narrated

"When Allah;s Messenger stood for Salat during the night, he would say the Takbir (Allahu Akbar), then say: (Subhanaka Allahumma wa bihamdika wa Tabarakasmuka wa Ta'ala Jadduka wa la ilaha ghairuk.) 'Glorious You are O Allah, and with Your praise, and blesses is Your Name, and exalted is Your majesty, and none has the right to be worshipped but You' Then he would say: (A'udhu Bilahi As-Sami'il-Alimi min Ash-Shaitanir-Rajimi, min Hamzihi Wa Nafkhihi wa Nafthihi.)" 'Allah is undoubtedly the greatest.' (Allahu Akbaru Kabira). Then he would say: 'I seek refuge in Allah the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing, from the cursed Shaitan, from his madness, his arrogance, and his poetry.'

Aishah narrated

"When the Prophet opened the Salat he would say: (Subhanaka Allahumma wa bihamdika wa tabarakasmuka, wa ta'ala jadduka wa la ilaha ghairuk)" 'Glorious You are O Allah, and with Your praise, and blessed is Your Name, and exalted is Your majesty, and none has the right to be worshipped but You.'

Chapter 68: What Has Been Related About Not Saying "Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim (In The Name Of Allah, The Merciful, The Beneficient)" Aloud

Ibn Abdullah bin Mughaffal narrated

"While I was praying, I said: Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim "In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Beneficent." My father heard me and said: "O my son this is a newly invented matter, beware of the newly-invented.'" He (Ibn Abdullah) said: "I have not seen any one of the Companions of Allah's Messenger who hated a newly invented matter in Islam more than him. And he said: 'Ihave performed Salat with the Prophet, and with Abu Bakr, and Umar, and with Uthman. I did not hear any one of them saying it. So do not say it. When you are performing Salat say: Al-Hamdu lilahi Rabbil-Alamin "All praise is due to Allah the Lord of all that exists.'"

Chapter 69: Whoever Held The View That Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim Was Recited Aloud

Ibn Abbas narrated

"The Prophet would open his Salat with (Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim)."

Chapter 70: [What Has Been Related] About Opening The Recitation With Al-Hamdulillahi Rabbil-Alamin (All Praise Is Due To Allah, The Lord Of All That Exits.)

Anas narrated

"Allah's Messenger, Abu Bakr, Umar and Uthman opened the Salat with (Al-Hamdu-lillahi rabbil-alamin)."

Chapter 71: What Has Been Related About: "There Is No Salat Except With Fatihatil-Kitab"

Ubadah bin As-Samil narrated that

the Prophet said: "There is no Salat for the one who does not recite Fatihatil-Kitab."