The Book on Salat (Prayer)

كتاب الصلاة

Chapter 118: [What Has Been Related About] The Recitation For Maghrib

Umm Al-Fadl narrated

"Allah's Messenger came out to us with his head bandaged from his illness. He prayed Maghrib, reciting (Surat) Al-Mursalat." [She said:] "He did not pray it again until he met Allah the Might and Sublime."

Chapter 119: What Has Been Related About The Recitation For The Isha Prayer

Abdullah bin Buraidah narrated that his father (Buraidah) said

"Allah's Messenger would recite: By the sun and its brightness, or similar Surah for the latter Isha (prayer)."

Al-Bara bin Azib narrated

"The Prophet would recite: By the fig and the olive for Isha."

Chapter 120: What Has Been Related About Recitation Behind The Imam

Ubadah bin As-Samit narrated

"Allah's Messenger prayed the Subh prayer, and he had difficulty with the recitation. When turned (after finishing) he said: 'I think that you are reciting behind your Imam?'" He said: "We said: 'Yes, Messenger of Allah, by Allah!' He said: 'Do not do that, except for Umm Al-Kitab, for there is no Salat for one who does not recite it.'"

Chapter 121: What Has Been Related About Not Reciting Behind The Imam When The Imam Is Reciting Aloud

Abu Hurairah narrated

"Allah's Messenger turned (after praying) from a Salat in which he recited aloud and said: 'Has any one of you recite along with me just now?' A man said: 'Yes, O Messenger of Allah.' He said: 'Indeed I said to myself: Why was I being contended with for the Quran?'" He (Az-Zuhri one of the narrators) said: "So when they heard that from Allah's Messenger, the people stopped reciting with Allah's Messenger in the prayers that Allah's Messenger recited aloud."

Abu Nu'aim Wahb bin Kaisan narated that he heard Jabir bin 'Abdullah saying

[Abu 'Eisa said:] This Hadith is Hasan Sahih.

Chapter 122: What Is Said When One Enters Into The Masjid

Fatimah the Great narrated

"When Allah's Messenger entered the Masjid he said Salat and Salam upon Muhammad and then said: (Rabbighfirli dhunubi, waftahli abwaba rahmatik) 'O pardon my sins, and open the gates of Your mercy for me.' And when he exited he said Salat and Salam upon Muhammad, and then said: (Rabbighfirli dunubi, waftahli abwaba rakmatik) 'O Lord pardon my sins, and open the gates of Your blessings for me.'"

Ismail bin Ibrahim (a narrator in the chain of Hadith no. 314) said

"I met Abdullah bin al Husain in Makkah, so I asked him about this Hadith, so he narrated it to me, he said: 'When Allah's Messenger entered, he said (Rabbi aftahli abwaba rahmatik) 'O Lord, open the gates of Your mercy for me.' And when he exited he said: (Rabbi iftahli abwaba fadlik) 'O Lord, open the gates of Your blessings for me.'"

Chapter 123: What Has Been Related About 'When One Of You Enters The Masjid Let Him Perform Two Rak'ah'

Abu Qatadah narrated that

Allah's Messenger said: "When one of you comes to the Masjid, then let him perform two Rak'ah before sitting."

Chapter 124: What Has Been Related About 'All Of The Earth Is A Masjid, Except For The Graveyard And Washroom'

Abu Sa'eed Al-Khudri narrated that

Allah's Messenger said: "All of the earth is a Masjid except for the graveyard and the washroom."

Chapter 125: What Has Been Related About The Virtue Of Building A Masjid

Uthman bin Affan narrated that

he heard Allah's Messenger say: "Whoever builds a Masjid for (the sake of) Allah, then Allah will build a similar house for him in Paradise."

It has been related that

the Prophet said: "Whoever builds a Masjid for (the sake of) Allah, be it small or large, then Allah will build a house for him in Paradise."

Chapter 126: Undesirability Of Taking The Grave As A Masjid

Ibn Abbbas narrated

"Allah's Messenger cursed the women who visit the graves, and those who use them as Masajid and put torches on them."

Chapter 127: What Has Been Related About Sleeping In The Masjid

Ibn Umar narrated

"We would sleep in the Masjid during the time of Allah's Messenger and we were young men."

Chapter 128: What Has Been Related About The Dislike For Buying, Selling, Loudly Seeking Out A Lost Item And Reciting Poetry In The Masjid

Amr bin Shu'aib narrated from his father, from his grandfather (Abdullah bin Amr Al-As), that

Allah's Messenger prohibited the recitation of poetry in the Masjid, and from selling and buying in it, and (he prohibited) the people from forming circles in it on Friday before the Salat."

Chapter 129: What Has Been Related About The Masjid Founded Upon Taqwa

Abu Sa'eed Al-Khudri narrated

"A man from Banu Khudrah and a man from Banu Amr bin Awf were disputing about the Masjid that was founded upon Taqwa. The man from Banu Khudrah said: 'It is the Masjid of Allah's Messenger.' The other one said that it was Masjid Qub. So they went to ask Allah's Messenger about that. He said: 'It is this - meaning his Masjid - 'and in that one (Masjid Quba) there is much good.'"

Chapter 130: What Has Been Related About The Salat Performed In Masjid Quba

Abu Al-Abrad the freed slave of Banu Khatmah narrated that he heard Usaid bin Zuhair Al-Ansari - and he was one of the Companions of the Prophet - narrated that

the Prophet said: "The Salat in Masjid Quba is like Umrah."

Chapter 131: What Has Been Related About Which Of The Masajid Are More Virtuous

Abu Hurairah narrated that

Allah's Messenger said: "Salat is this Masjid of mine is better than a thousand Salat in another, except for Masjid Al-Haram."

Abu Sa'eed Al-Khudri narrated that

Allah's Messenger said: "A mount is not saddled (for a journey) except to three Masajid: Al-Masjid Al-Haram, this Masjid of mine, and Masjid Al-Aqsa."[Abu `Eisa said:] This Hadith is Hasan Sahih.

Chapter 132: What Has Been Related About Walking To The Masjid

Abu Hurairah narrated that

Allah's Messenger said: "When the Iqamah is called for Salat do not come to it rushing, rather come to it walking, and while you have tranquility. What you catch of it then pray it, and what you missed of it, then complete it."