Book 21: Actions during the Prayer
Sahih al-Bukhari
Sahih al-Bukhari 1198
Abdullah bin Yusuf narrated to us, (he said:) Malik told us. He narrated from Makhramah bin Sulaiman, Makhramah from Kuraib, the freed slave of Hazrat Ibn Abbas (ra), that he told him: It is narrated from Hazrat Abdullah bin Abbas (ra) that he spent the night with the Mother of the Believers, Hazrat Maimunah (ra), and she was his maternal aunt. He said: I lay down across the width of the bedding, and the Messenger of Allah (saw) and his wife lay down along its length. The Messenger of Allah (saw) slept until half the night had passed, or it was a little before or after that, when the Messenger of Allah (saw) woke up, sat up and began to pass his hands over his face to drive away sleep. Then he recited the last ten verses of Surah Al Imran. Then he got up and took a waterskin that was hanging, and performed the ablution (Wudu) from it, and performed it well. Then he stood and began to pray (Salat). Hazrat Abdullah bin Abbas (ra) used to say: I got up and did just as he had done. Then I went and stood at his side. The Messenger of Allah (saw) placed his right hand on my head and began to rub my right ear with his hand. He prayed two Rak'ahs, then he prayed two Rak'ahs, then he prayed two Rak'ahs, then he prayed two Rak'ahs, then he prayed two Rak'ahs, then he prayed two Rak'ahs. Then he prayed one Witr. After that he lay down until the caller to prayer (Mu'adhdhin) came to him, and he got up and prayed two light Rak'ahs. Then he went out and led the Fajr prayer.
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Sahih al-Bukhari 1199
حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ نُمَيْرٍ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍ حَدَّثَنَا هُرَيْمُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَ عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ عَلْقَمَةَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ـ رضى الله عنه ـ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم نَحْوَهُ.
(Muhammad bin Abdullah) bin Numair narrated to us, he said: (Muhammad) bin Fudail narrated to us. A'mash told us. He narrated from Ibrahim, Ibrahim from Alqamah, Alqamah from Hazrat Abdullah (bin Mas'ud) (ra), that he said: We used to greet the Prophet (saw) with Salam while he was in the prayer (Salat), and he used to answer us. When we returned from the Negus (Najashi), we greeted him, but he did not answer us, and he said (after the prayer): “In the prayer there is indeed a great preoccupation.” (Muhammad bin Abdullah) bin Numair narrated to us, (he said:) Ishaq bin Mansur (Saluli) narrated to us. He said: Huraim bin Sufyan told us. He narrated from A'mash, A'mash from Ibrahim (Nakha'i), Ibrahim from Alqamah, Alqamah from Hazrat Abdullah (bin Mas'ud) (ra), he from the Prophet (saw), in the same way.
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Sahih al-Bukhari 1200
Ibrahim bin Musa narrated to us, (he said:) Isa (bin Yunus) told us. He narrated from Isma'il (bin Abi Khalid), Isma'il from Harith bin Shubail, Harith from Abu Amr (Sa'd bin Abi Iyas) Shaibani. He said: Hazrat Zaid bin Arqam (ra) said to me: In the time of the Prophet (saw) we used to talk in the prayer (Salat). One of us would talk with his companion about his affairs. At last this verse was revealed: “Watch over Prayers, (and the middle Prayer, and stand before Allah submissively.)” (Qur’an 2:239) Then we were commanded to remain silent.
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Sahih al-Bukhari 1201
Abdullah bin Maslamah (Qa'nabi) narrated to us, (he said:) Abdul Aziz bin Abi Hazim told us. He narrated from his father, his father from Hazrat Sahl (ra) (bin Sa'd), that he said: The Prophet (saw) had gone out to make peace among the Banu Amr bin Auf, and the time of prayer (Salat) came. Hazrat Bilal came to Hazrat Abu Bakr (ra) and said: The Prophet (saw) has been held up. So lead the people. He said: Very well, if that is what you wish. Hazrat Bilal (ra) said the Iqamah for the prayer. Hazrat Abu Bakr (ra) went forward and began the prayer. Meanwhile the Prophet (saw) came, making his way through the rows, until he stood in the first row, and the people began to make Tasfih. Hazrat Sahl said: Do you know what Tasfih is? Clapping. And Hazrat Abu Bakr (ra) would not pay attention to anything else in the prayer. When the people clapped a great deal, he turned and looked, and what did he see but the Prophet (saw) in the row. He gestured to him to remain standing in his place. Hazrat Abu Bakr (ra) raised both his hands and praised Allah, the Exalted. Then he stepped backwards, and the Prophet (saw) went forward and led the prayer.
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Sahih al-Bukhari 1202
Amr bin Isa narrated to us, (he said:) Abu Abdis Samad Abdul Aziz bin Abdis Samad narrated to us. (He said:) Husain bin Abdur Rahman told us. He narrated from Abu Wa'il, Abu Wa'il from Hazrat Abdullah bin Mas'ud (ra), that he said: In the prayer (Salat) we used to recite At-Tahiyyat and name (people) and greet one another with Salam. The Messenger of Allah (saw) heard this and said: “Say thus: All worship of the tongue belongs to Allah alone, and the bodily worship and the worship with wealth too (belong to Allah alone). O Prophet, peace be upon you, and the mercy of Allah and His blessings, and peace be upon us and upon the righteous servants of Allah. I bear witness that there is none worthy of worship except Allah, and that Muhammad (saw) is His servant and His Messenger. For when you have said this, you have prayed for peace for every righteous servant of Allah, the Exalted, who is in the earth and the heavens.”
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Sahih al-Bukhari 1203
Ali bin Abdullah (Madini) narrated to us, (he said:) Sufyan (bin Uyainah) narrated to us. (He said:) Zuhri told us. He narrated from Abu Salamah, Abu Salamah from Hazrat Abu Hurairah (ra), Hazrat Abu Hurairah (ra) from the Prophet (saw) of Allah (saw), that he said: “Saying Subhanallah is for men and clapping is for women.”
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Sahih al-Bukhari 1204
Yahya (bin Ja'far) narrated to us, (he said:) Waki' told us. He narrated from Sufyan (Thauri), Sufyan from Abu Hazim (Salamah bin Dinar), Abu Hazim from Hazrat Sahl bin Sa'd (ra), that he used to say: The Prophet (saw) said: “Saying Subhanallah is for men and clapping is for women.”
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Sahih al-Bukhari 1205
Bishr bin Muhammad narrated to us, (he said:) Abdullah (bin Mubarak) told us. He said: Yunus (bin Yazid) narrated to us that Zuhri said: Hazrat Anas bin Malik (ra) told me: On Monday, while the Muslims were in the Fajr prayer (Salat) and Hazrat Abu Bakr (ra) was leading them in prayer, suddenly the Prophet (saw) appeared before them. He lifted the curtain of the apartment of Hazrat Aishah (ra) and looked at them while they were standing in rows. He smiled, and Hazrat Abu Bakr (ra) stepped back on his heels, thinking that the Messenger of Allah (saw) wished to come for the prayer, and when the Muslims saw the Prophet (saw), they were about to break off their prayers out of joy, but he gestured with his hand that they should complete the prayer. Then he went into the apartment and let the curtain fall, and on that very day he passed away.
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Sahih al-Bukhari 1206
Laith (bin Sa'd) said: Ja'far (bin Rabi'ah) told me. It is narrated from Abdur Rahman bin Hurmuz that he said: Hazrat Abu Hurairah (ra) used to say: The Messenger of Allah (saw) said: “A woman called her son while he was in his place of worship. She said: O Juraij! He said: O my Allah! Should I answer my mother or pray (Salat)? Then the woman (called and) said: O Juraij! He said: O my Allah! Should I answer my mother or pray? Then (the third time) the woman (called and) said: O Juraij! He said: O my Allah! Should I answer my mother or pray? The mother cursed him: O Allah! Let Juraij not die until he sees the faces of prostitutes. And a shepherdess who grazed goats used to come to his place of worship. She gave birth to a child, and she was asked: Whose child is this? She said: Juraij's, who used to come down from his place of worship to me. Juraij said: Where is this woman who says that her child is my child? (When the child was brought to him,) he asked (the child): Child! Who is your father? It replied: The shepherd of the goats.”
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Sahih al-Bukhari 1207
Abu Nu'aim narrated to us, (he said:) Shaiban told us. He narrated from Yahya (bin Abi Kathir), Yahya from Abu Salamah, that he said: Mu'aiqib (bin Abi Fatimah) narrated to me that the Prophet (saw), concerning a man who levelled the dust where he prostrated, said: “If you must do it, then do it only once.”
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Sahih al-Bukhari 1208
Musaddad narrated to us, he said: Bishr (bin Mufaddal) narrated to us. (He said:) Ghalib (Qattan) narrated to us. He narrated from Bakr bin Abdullah (Muzani), Bakr from Hazrat Anas bin Malik (ra), that he said: We used to pray (Salat) with the Prophet (saw) in intense heat. If one of us could not put his forehead on the ground, he would spread out his garment and prostrate on it.
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Sahih al-Bukhari 1209
Abdullah bin Maslamah narrated to us, (he said:) Malik told us. He narrated from Abun Nadr, Abun Nadr from Abu Salamah, Abu Salamah from Hazrat Aishah (ra). She used to say: I would have my feet stretched out in front of the Prophet (saw), in the direction of his Qiblah, while he was praying. When he prostrated, he would press me with his hand and I would draw my feet back. When he stood up, I would stretch my feet out again.
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Sahih al-Bukhari 1210
Mahmud (bin Ghailan) narrated to us, (he said:) Shababah (bin Sawwar) narrated to us. (He said:) Shu'bah told us. He narrated from Muhammad bin Ziyad, Muhammad from Hazrat Abu Hurairah (ra), Hazrat Abu Hurairah (ra) from the Prophet (saw), that once he prayed (Salat) and said: “Satan came before me and attacked me violently in order to break my prayer. Allah, the Exalted, gave me power over him, and I throttled him and threw him to the ground, and I intended to tie him to a pillar so that you might see him in the morning. But I remembered this saying of Solomon (as): ‘O my Lord, … bestow on me a kingdom that will not suit anyone after me’ (Qur’an 38:36). Then Allah, the Exalted, sent him back humiliated and disgraced.”
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Sahih al-Bukhari 1211
Adam narrated to us, (he said:) Shu'bah narrated to us. (He said:) Azraq bin Qais told us, he said: We were fighting the Kharijites at Ahwaz, and I was sitting on the bank of a canal. Meanwhile a man came and began to pray (Salat), and at that time the reins of his animal were in his hand. The animal began to pull him, and he kept following it. Shu'bah used to say: This was Hazrat Abu Barzah Aslami (ra). And a man among the Kharijites began to say: O Allah! Ruin this old man. When the old man had finished the prayer, he said: I have heard what you said. I have taken part in six, seven or eight campaigns in the company of the Messenger of Allah (saw), and I have seen the ease he used to grant, and I prefer to come back with my animal rather than to leave it to go off to its pasture and then have this trouble me.
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Sahih al-Bukhari 1212
Muhammad bin Muqatil narrated to us, (he said:) Abdullah (bin Mubarak) narrated to us. (He said:) Yunus told us. He narrated from Zuhri, Zuhri from Urwah, that he said: Hazrat Aishah (ra) used to say: The sun was eclipsed, and the Prophet (saw) stood up (for the prayer). He recited a long Surah. Then he bowed (Ruku) and remained in bowing for a long time. After that he raised his head and began another Surah. Then he bowed, finished this Rak'ah and went into prostration. Then in the second Rak'ah too he did the same. (After finishing the prayer) he said: “These are two of the signs of Allah, the Exalted. So when you see an eclipse, pray (Salat) until the eclipse is removed from you. In this place of mine I have seen everything that I was promised, so much so that I also saw that I wished to take a bunch (of grapes) from Paradise. That was when you saw me begin to step forward. And when you saw me step back, at that time I saw Hell, one part of it consuming another, and in it I saw Amr bin Luhayy, and it was he who started the custom of the Sa'ibah.”
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Sahih al-Bukhari 1213
Sulaiman bin Harb narrated to us, (he said:) Hammad (bin Zaid) told us. He narrated from Ayyub, Ayyub from Nafi, Nafi from Hazrat Ibn Umar (ra), that the Prophet (saw) saw mucus (from the nose) on the Qiblah wall of the mosque, and he was displeased with the people of the mosque and said: “Allah is before each one of you when he is in the prayer (Salat). Therefore he should neither spit nor bring out phlegm.” Then he came down and scraped it off with his hand. Hazrat Ibn Umar (ra) used to say: When one of you spits, he should spit to his left.
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Sahih al-Bukhari 1214
Muhammad (bin Bashshar) narrated to us, (he said:) Ghundar narrated to us that Shu'bah told us, he said: I heard Qatadah. He narrated from Hazrat Anas (ra), Hazrat Anas (ra) from the Prophet (saw). He said: “When one of you is in the prayer (Salat), he is speaking in intimate prayer with his Lord. Therefore he should spit neither in front of him nor to his right, but to his left or under his left foot.”
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Sahih al-Bukhari 1215
Muhammad bin Kathir narrated to us, (he said:) Sufyan (Thauri) told us. He narrated from Abu Hazim, Abu Hazim from Hazrat Sahl bin Sa'd (ra), that he said: The people would pray (Salat) with the Prophet (saw) with their waist-wrappers tied around their necks because they were small, and the women were told: Do not raise your heads until the men have sat upright.
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Sahih al-Bukhari 1216
Abdullah bin Abi Shaibah narrated to us, (he said: Muhammad) bin Fudail told us. He narrated from A'mash, A'mash from Ibrahim (Nakha'i), Ibrahim from Alqamah, Alqamah from Hazrat Abdullah bin Mas'ud (ra), that he said: I used to greet the Prophet (saw) with Salam while he was in the prayer (Salat), and he used to answer me. When we came back, I greeted him, but he did not answer, and (later) he said: “In the prayer there is indeed a preoccupation.”
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Sahih al-Bukhari 1217
Abu Ma'mar narrated to us, (he said:) Abdul Warith narrated to us. (He said:) Kathir bin Shinzir told us. He narrated from Ata bin Rabah, Ata from Hazrat Jabir bin Abdullah (ra). He said: The Messenger of Allah (saw) sent me for some task of his. I went. Then, having completed the task, I came back. I came to the Prophet (saw) and greeted him with Salam, but he did not answer me. Allah alone knows best the thoughts that came into my heart. I said to myself: Perhaps the Messenger of Allah (saw) is displeased with me because I was late. Then I greeted him, but he did not answer me. At this my heart was grieved even more than before. Then I greeted him, and he answered me and said: “I was praying (Salat), and that is what kept me from answering.” And at that time he was (mounted) on his she-camel. His face was not towards the Qiblah but towards another direction.
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