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 337. Busr bin Sa´id said that Zaid bin Khalid Al-Juhani sent him to Abu Juhaim to ask him what he had heard from the Messenger of Allah sallahu alayhi wa sallam about a person passing in front of a praying person. Abu Juhaim replied: The Messenger of Allah sallahu alayhi wa sallam said, ´´Were the person who passes in front of praying person to know the magnitude of his sin, he would have preferred to wait for 40 rather than to pass in front of him.´´ Abu An-Nadr said, ´´I do not remember exactly whether he said 40 days, months or years.´´ 

 336. Abu Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allah sallahu alayhi wa sallam said: ´´people should avoid lifting their eyes towards the sky while supplicating in Salat, lest their eyesight be snatched away.´´

 335. Abu Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allah sallahu alayhi wa sallam said: ´´The saying ´Subhan Allah´ is for men, and clapping is for women.´´ In another narration: ´´During Salat.´´

 333. Mu´awiyah bin Al-Hakam As-Sulami said: While I was praying with the Messenger of Allah sallahu alayhi wa sallam a man sneezed. I said: ´´Yarhamuk Allah (May Allah have mercy on you).´´ The people stared at me with disapproving looks, so I said: ´´Woe to me, why do you stare at me?´´ They began to strike their hands on their thighs, and when I saw them urging to keep silent, I said nothing. When the Messenger of Allah sallahu alayhi wa sallam finshed praying. I ransom with my father and mother, I have never seen a better or nicer him by Allah, be neither scolded me, nor hit me, nor reviled me. Then he said: ´´ IN this prayer, none of people talk should be uttered. It is onlu for Tasbij, Takbir, and Qur´anic recitation.´´ Or me the Messenger of Allah sallahu alayhi wa sallam said words to that effect. I said: ´´O Messenger of Allah!I have just recently quit Ignorance Period, and Allah has brought Islam to us; among us are those who consult soothsayers. He said: ´´Do not consult...

 331. Jabir bin Samurah narrated: The Messenger of Allah sallahu alayhi wa sallam came to us and said: ´´What do I see you lifting your hands like the tails of head-strong horses? Be calm in Salat (prayer).´´ He then again came to us and saw us (sitting) in circles; he said: ´´Why do I see you in separate groups?´´ He again came to us and said: ´´Why don´t you line up in rows like the angels do in the presence of their Rubb?´´ We said: ´´O Messenger of Allah, how do the angels line up in rows in the presence of their Rubb?´´ He said: ´´They complete the first rows and keep close together in the row.´´

 330. Jabir narrated that the Messenger of Allah sallahu alayhi wa sallam was asked about the Salat (prayer) which is best. He said: ´´That in which the standing is longer.´´

 328. Al-Bara´ bin ´Azib narrated: I noticed the prayer of Muhammad sallahu alayhi wa sallam and saw his Qiyam (standing), his Ruku´ (bowing), and then going back to the standing posture (I´tidal) after bowing, his Sujud (prostrations), his sitting (Jalsah) between two prostrations, his prostrations, and sitting between Taslim and going away -- all these were nearly equal to one another. 329.Anas said: ´´I try my best when you in orayer as I saw the Messenger of Allah sallahu alayhi wa sallam leading us.´´ He (Thabit) said: Anas used to do that which I do not see you doing; when he lifted his head from Ruku´ (bowing), he stood up (so long) that onw would say: ´He has forgotten (to bow down in prostration).´ and when he lifted his head from Sajdah (prostration), he stayed in the position, until someone would say: ´He has forgotten (to bow down in prostration for the second Sajdah).´

 327. Abu Hurairah narrated: One day the Messenger of Allah sallahu alayhi wa sallam led prayer- Then turning (towards his Companions) he said: ´´O so-and-so! why don´t you perform your Salat (prayer) well. Does not the performer of prayer see how he performs prayer, for he performs it for himself? By Allah, I see behind me as I see in front of me.´´

 Here is the Hadith of ´Itban bin Malik which has been mentioned in the book of Faith.

 325. Abu Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allah sallahu alayhi wa sallam said: ´´Verily, the most burdensome prayers for the hypocrities are the ´Isha and the Fajr. Were they to know the rewards for these two prayers, they would have come to them even if they have to crawl. I was about to order the prayer be commenced and command a man to lead people in prayer, should then I go along with some men with bundles of wood to the people who have not attended the prayer (in congregation) and burn their homes on them.´´ It is added in another narration: ´´Where one of them to know he would find a fat fleshy bone, he would attend it.´´ 326. ´Abdullah bin Mas´yd narrated that the Prophet sallahu alayhi wa sallam said about the people who do not attend Jumu´ah prayer: ´´I am about to command a man to lead people in prayer, and then burn these people who do not attend Jumu´ah prayer in their homes.´´

 324. Abdur-Rahman bin Abu ´Amrah reported: ´Uthman bin ´Affan entered the mosque after Maghrib and sat alone. I sat with him, so he said: O son of my brother, I heard the Messenger of Allah sallahu alayhi wa sallam say: ´´He who performs the ´Isha prayer in congregation, would be as though he prayed half the night, and he who performs morning prayer in congregation, would be as though he prayed the whole night.´´

 323. Abu Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allah sallahu alayhi wa sallam said: ´´Man´s prayer in congregation is better than twenty degrees and more than performing it in his house and his market. When he performs Wudu´ well, then goes to a mosque, with the sole intention of performing prayer. He does not take a step (in his way to a mosque) but he will be raised a degree, and a sin effaced until he enters the mosque; when he enters the mosque, he is considered as praying as long as he is waiting for prayer. And the angels continue supplicating for him saying: ´O Allah, be Merciful to him and forgive his sins. Accept his repentance.´ (And the angels continue this supplication for him) as long as he does or as long as his Wudu´ is nullified.´´

 323. ´Abdullah bin Mas´ud said: You would see us when no one lagged from prayer except a hypocrite, whose hypocrisy was well-known, or a sick man. But even the sick man would walk between two men (i.e., with the help of two men one on each side) to hoin the Salat. And he said: The Messenger of Allah sallahu alayhi wa sallam taught us the rites of guidance, among which is Salat (prayer) in the mosque in which the Adhan is called.

 322. Abu Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allah sallahu alayhi wa sallam said, ´´Congregational prayer is twenty-five degrees better than a prayer performed individually.´´

 321. Abu Hurairah narrated: There came to the Prophet sallahu alayhi wa sallam a blind man and said: ´´O Messenger of Allah, I have no one to guide me to the mosque.´´ He, therefore, asked the Messenger of Allah (sallahu alayhi wa sallam) a permission to perform Salat (prayer) in his house. He granted him permission. Then when the man turned away, he called him back and asked him: ´´Do you hear the call to prayer?´´ He said: ´´Yes.´´ He said: ´´Respond to it.´´

 320. Mughirah bin Shu´bah narrated that he participated in the expedition of Tabuk along with the Messenger of Allah sallahu alayhi wa sallam. Al-Mughirah said: The Messenger of Allah sallahu alayhi wa sallam went out to answer the call of nature before the morning prayer, and I want along with him and varried with me a jar (full of water). When the Messenger of Allah sallahu alayhi wa sallam came back to pour water on his hands out of the jar, and he washed his hands three times, then washed his face three times. He then tried to sticj out his forearms from the sleeves of his cloak, but since the sleeves were tight, he pulled his hands from inside of the cloak, and then brought out his forearms from under the cloak, and washed his forearms up to the elbows and then wiped over his light boot, and then moved on. Al-Mughirah said: I also moved along with him until we came to the people (and found that) under the Imamah of ´Abdur-Rahman bin ´Auf. The Messenger of Allah sallahu alayhi...

 319. ´Ubaidullah bin ´Abdullah said: I went to ´Aishah and asked her to describe to me the illness of Allah´s Messenger sallahu alayhi wa sallam. ´Aishah said:Yes. The Prophet sallahu alayhi wa sallam became seriously ill and asked, ´´Have the people performed the Salat (prayer)?´´ We replied, ´´No, O messenger of Allah. They are waiting for you.´´ He said, ´´Put water for me in a trough.´´ We did so. He took a bath and tried to get up but fainted. When he recovered, he again asked, ´´Have the people performed the Salat (prayer)?´´ We said, ´´No, they are waiting for you. O Messenger of Allah,´´ he again said, ´´Put water in a trough for me.´´ We did so and he took a bath and tried to get up but fainted again. Then he recovered and said, ´´Have the people performed the Salat (prayer)?´´ We replied, ´´NO, they are waiting for you. O Messenger of Allah.´´ We did so and he washed himself and tried to get up but he fainted. When he recovered, he asked, ´´Have the people performed the ...

 318. Abu Mas´ud Al-Ansari narrated: A man came to the Messenger of Allah sallahu alayhi wa sallam and said: ´´I keep away from the morning congregational prayer on account of such and such (the Imam) because he prolongs us in the prayer.´´ I never saw the Prophet sallahu aayhi wa sallam angrier when giving an exhoration than he was on that day. He said: ´´O people, some of you scare people away, so whoever of you leads the people in prayer, let him bje brief; for behind him are the weak, the aged, and the people who have (urgent) needs to attend.´´

 317. Al-Bara narrated: They (the Companions) used to pray with the Messenger of Allah sallahu alayhi wa sallam and they bowed when he bowed, and when he raised his head after bowing, he called: ´´Sami´-Allahu liman hamdiah (Allah listened to him who praised Him),´´ and we kept standing until we saw him placing his face on the ground and then we followed him.

 316. Abu Mas´ud Al-Ansari narrated that Allah´s Messenger sallahu aayhi wa sallam said: ´´The one who recites the Book of Allah best, let him be the Imam; but if they are equal in reciting it, then the one who has most knowledge regarding Sunnah. If they are equal regardign the Sunnah, then the earliest one to emigrate; if they immigrated at the same time, then the earliest one to embrace Islam. No man should lead another in prayer in his (the latter´s) domain, or sit in his seat in his house, without his permission.´´

 315. ´Abdullah bin Mas´ud narrated: None of you should give a share to Satan of his self by thinking that it is necessary for him to turn to the right side only (after prayer). I saw the Messenger of Allah sallahu alayhi wa sallam move often turning to the left. 

 314. Abu Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allah sallahu alayhi wa sallam said: ´´He who says ´Subhan Allah´ after every prayer thirty-tree times, and ´Alhamdulillah´ thirty-tree times, and ´Allahu Akbar´ thirty-times, so it is ninety-nine times in all, and says to complete a hundred: ´La ilaha illallahu, Wahdahu la shrika lahu lahul-mulku wa lahul-hamdu, wa Wuwa ´ala kuli sha´in Qadeer (There is no true God but Allah having no åartner, to Him belongs sovereignty and to Him is the praise, due, and He has power over everyhing),´ his sins will be forgiven even if they are as much as the foam of the sea.´´

 313. Ibn ´Abbas narrated: We used to know that Allah´s Messenger sallahu alayhi wa sallam had finished his prayer when we heard the Takbir (Allahu Akbar).

 312. Warrad, the freed slave of Mughirah bin Shu´bah reported that Mughriah bin Shu´bah wrote to Mu´awiyah: When the Messenger of Allah sallahu alayhi wa sallam finished the prayer and called Taslim he uttered (this supplication): ´´La ilaha illallah, wahdahu la sharika lahu, lahul-mulku wa lahul-hamdu, wa Hawa ´ala kuli sha´in Qadir. Allahumma la mani´a lima a ´taita, wa la mu´tiya lima mana´ta, wa la yanfa´u dhal-jaddi minkal-jadd- (There is no true God except Allah Alone having no partner. To Him belong the dominion, and the praise, and He has power over everything. O Allah, there is none to withhold what You give, nor is there any to give what You withhold, and the riches of the rich does not avail against You).´´

 311. Jabir bin Samurah narrated: When we performed prayer with the Messenger of Allah sallahu alayhi wa sallam, we said: ´´Assalamu ´Alaikum wa Rahmatullah (May safety and security be granted to you and mercy of Allah),´´ and motioned our hands on both the sides. Upon this the Messenger of Allah sallahu alayhi wa sallam said: ´´Why do you motion your hands as if they are the tails of headstrong horses? It is enough for you to place your hand on your thigh and then make Taslim to his brother on the right side and then on the left.´´

 310. ´Amir bin Sa´d reported from his father: I used to see the Messenger of Allah sallahu alayhi wa sallam when he pronounced Taslim on his right and on his left until I could see the whiteness of his cheek.

 309. Abu Mas´ud Al-Ansari narrated: We were sitting in the company of Sa´d bin ´Ubadah when the Messenger of Allah sallahu alayhi wa sallam came to us. Bashir bin Sa´d said: ´´Allah has commanded us to supplicate for you. How do we do that?´´ The Messenger of Allah sallahu alayhi wa sallam kept silent that we wished he would not have asked him. The Messenger of Allah sallahu alayhi wa sallam then said: ´´(For blessing me) say: ´Allahumma salli ´ala Muhammadin wa ´ala ali Muhammadin, kama sallaita ´ala ali Ibrahima, wa bark ´ala Muhammadin wa ´ala ali Muhammadin, kama baraka ´ala ali Ibrahim, fil- ´alamin, innaka Hamidun Majid. (O Allah, exalt the mention of Muhammad, and the household of Muhammad as You exalted the mention of the household of Ibrahim, and bless Muhammad and the household of Muhammad, as You blessed the household of Ibrahim in the worlds. You certainly are Praised and Glorious.)´ And as for the greeting, you know it.´´

 308. Abu Darda narrated: The Messenger of Allah sallahu alayhi wa sallam stood (to perform prayer) and we heard him saying: ´´I seek refuge with Allah from you,´´ then he said: ´´I curse you by the curse of Allah,´´ (thrice), and stretched his hands as if he was catching something. When he finished the prayer, we said: ´´O Messenger of Allah, we heard you saying something (words) in the prayer which we have not heard you say before, and we saw you stretch your hands.´´ He said: ´´The enemy of Allah, Iblis, came (to me) having a burning brand of fire to keep (it) on my face. So I said: ´I seek refuge with Allah from you´ curse you by the curse of Allah´, but he did not slip back. Then I intended to catch him. By Allah if I have not remembered the supplication of my brother Sulaiman, I would have catch him and tie him so that the boys of Al-Madinah would make fun of him.´´

 307. Abu Bakr narrated that he said to the Messenger of Allah sallahu alayhi wa sallam. ´´Teach me an invocation with which I may supplicate Allah in my prayer.´´ He (the Prophet sallahu alayhi wa sallam) said, ´´Say: Allahumma inni zalamtu nafsi zulman kabiran (Qutaibah said: Kathran) wa la yaghfirudh- dhunuba illa Anta, faghfir li maghfiritan min indika, warhamni, innaka Antal Ghafur-ur-rahim (I Allah! I have wronged myself very much, and none forgives sins except You. So forgive me and be Merciful to me as You are the Oft-Forgiver, the Most Merciful).´´

 306. Aishah the wife of the Prophet sallahu alayhi wa sallam, narrated: The Prophet sallahu alayhi wa sallam used to supplicate in prayer: ´´Allahumma inni a´udhu bika min ´adhabil-qabr, wa a´udhu bika min fitnatil-Masihid-Dajjal, wa a´udhu bika min fitnatil-mahya wal-mamat Allahumma inni a´udhu bika minal-ma´thami wal-maghram. (O Allah I seek refuge with You from the torment of the grave, and I seek refuge with You from the trail of the Mashi Ad-Dajjal (Antichrist) and I seek refuge with You from the trail of life and death. O Allah! I seek refuge with You from sin and debt.´´ She said: Someone said to him: ´´O Messenger of Allah! Why is it that you so often seek refuge from deby?´´ He said: ´´When a (person) incurs debt, (he is obliged) to tell lies and break promises.´´