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1. Jabir Bin Abdullah AlAnsari reported The Prophet said I have been conferred upon five things which were not granted to anyone before me and these are Every apostle wassent particularly to his own people whereas I have been sent to all the red and the black the spoils of war have been made lawful for me and these were never made lawful to anyone before me and the earth has been made sacred and pure and mosque for me so whenever the time of prayer comes for any one of you he should pray whenever he is and I have been supported by awe by which the enemy is overwhelmed from the distance which one takes one month to cover and I have been granted intercession
2. Hudhaifa reported The Messenger of Allah may peace be npon him said We have been made to excel other people in three things Our rows have been made like the rows of the angels and the whole earth has been made a mosque for us and its dust has been made a purifier for us in case water is not available
3. Abu Huraira reported that the Messenger of Allah may peace be upon hlmg said I have been given superiority over the other prophets in six respects I have been given words which are concise but comprehensive in meaning I have been helped by terror in the hearts of enemies spoils have been made lawful to me the earth has been made for me clean and a place of worship I have been sent to all mankind and the line of prophets is closed with me
4. He struck our hands and put his hands together palm to palm then put them between his thighs
5. Abu Huraira reported that he heard the Messenger of Allah saying A highly wicked one amongst the Jinn escaped yesternight to interrupt my prayer but Allah gave me power over him so I seized him and intended to tie him to one of the pillars of the mosque in order that you all together or all might look at him but I remembered the supplication of my brother Sulaiman My Lord forgive me give me such a kingdom as will not be possible for anyone after me xxxvii
6. He Sahl Bin Sad said By Allah I know of which wood it is made and who made it and the day when I saw the Messenger of Allah seated himself on it on the first day
7. He turned towards people and said How Is it that someone amongst you stands before his Lord and then spits out in front of Him Does any one of you like that he should be made to stand in front of someone and then spit at his face So when any one of you spits he must spit on his left side under his foot
8. Abu Dharr reported The Apostle of Allah said The deeds of my people good and bad were presented before me and I found the removal of something objectionable from the road among their good deeds and the sputum mucus left unburied in the mosque among their evil deeds
9. Abu Huraira reported The Messenger of Allah said When there is a call to prayer the devil runs back breaking the wind so that he may not hear the call and when the call is complete he comes back
10. And when the takbir is pronounced he again runs back and when takbir is over he comes back and distracts a man saying Remember such and such remember such and such referring to something the man did not have in his mind
11. he placed the left foot between his thigh and shank and stretched the right foot and placed his left hand on his left knee and placed his right hand on his right thigh and raised his finger
12. tashahhud blessing and supplication he placed his right hand on his right thigh and his left hand on his left thigh and pointed with his forefinger and placed his thumb on his milddle finger and covered his knee with the palm of his left hand
13. Abu Huraira reported The Messenger of Allah way peace be upon him said When any one of you utters tashahhud in prayer he must seek refuge with Allah from four trials and should thus say O Allah I seek refuge with Thee from the torment of the Hell from the torment of the grave from the trial of life and death and from the evil of the trial of Masih AlDajjal Antichrist
14. Abu Huraira reported the Messenger of Allah as saying Seek refuge with Allah from the torment of Hell seek refuge with Allah from the torment of the grave and seek refuge with Allah from the trial of Masih AlDajjal and seek refuge with Allah from the trial of life and death
15. Aisha reported When the Messenger of Allah pronounced salutation he salutation longer than it took him to say O Allah Thou art Peace and peace comes from Thee blessed art Thou Possessor of Glory and Honour and in the narration of Ibn Numair the words are O Possessor of Glory and Honour
16. Warrad the freed slave of Mughira Bin Shuba reported Mughira Bin Shuba wrote to Muawiya it was Warrad who wrote this letter for him i
17. Abu Zubair reported Abdullah b Zubair used to say La ilaha i AlAllah at the end of every prayer like the hadith narrated by Ibn Numair and he reported it in the end and then reported Ibn Zubair saying The Messenger of Allah uttered La ilaha i AlAllah at the end of every prayer
18. He the Holy Prophet said How is that They said They pray as we pray and they observe fast as we observe fast and they give charity but we do not give charity and they set slaves free but we do not set slaves free
19. Abu Huraira narrated it from the Messenger of Allah that they the poor among the emigrants said Messenger of Allah the possessors of great wealth have obtained the highest ranks and lasting bliss and the rest of the hadith is the same as transmitted by Qutaiba on the authority of Laith except that he inserted the words of Abu Salih in the narration of Abu Huraira that the poor of the emigrants came back to the end of the hadith but this addition was made that Suhail said that every part of the supplication i
20. Kab Bin Ujra reported Allah Messenger as saying There are certain ejaculations the repeaters of which or the performers of which at the end of every prayer will never be caused disappointment Glory be to Allah thirty three times Praise be to Allah thirty three times and Allah is most Great thirty four times
21. Abu Huraira reported The Messenger of Allah said When the words of Iqama are pronounced none of you should run to it to join the prayer but walk with tranquillity and dignity and pray what you are in time for and complete what has gone before what the Imam has completed
22. Abu Salama son of Abdulrahman Bin Aouf reported Abu Huraira as saying Iqama was pronounced and we stood up and made rows straight till he the Holy Prophet stood at his place of worship the place ahead of the rows where he stood to lead the prayer before takbir tahrima
23. Umar said to him O Urwa are you aware of what you are saying Upon this he Urwa said I heard Bashir Bin Abu Massuod say that he heard Abu Massuod say that he heard the Messenger of Allah say Gabriel came down and acted as my Imam then I prayed with him then I prayed with him then I prayed with him
24. Urwa Bin Zubair came to him and informed him that one day as Mughira Bin Shuba was in Kufa as its governor he deferred the prayer Abu Massuod AlAnsari came to him and said What is this O Mughira Did you know that it was Gabriel who came and said prayer and then the Messenger of Allah said the prayer along with him then Gabriel prayed and the Messenger of Allah also prayed then Gabriel prayed and the Messenger of Allah also prayed then Gabriel prayed and the Messenger of Allah prayed along with him
25. Aisha the wife of the Apostle said that the Messenger of Allah said the afternoon prayer at the time when the sun shone in her apartment and its shadow did not extend beyond her apartment
26. Abdullah Bin Amr reported the Apostle saying The time of the noon prayer lasts as long as it is not afternoon and the time of the afternoon prayer lasts as long as the sun does not turn pale and the time of the evening prayer lasts as long as the spreading appearance of the redness above the horizon after sunset does not sink down and the time of the night prayer lasts by midnight and the time of the morning prayer lasts as long as the sun dots not rise
27. Abdullah Bin Amr reported The Messenger of Allah said The time of the noon prayer is when the sun passes the meridian and a man shadow is the same length as his height and it lasts as long as the time for the afternoon prayer has not come the time for the afternoon prayer is as long as the sun has not become pale the time of the evening prayer is as long as the twilight has not ended the time of the night prayer is up to the middle of the average night and the time of the morning prayer is from the appearance of dawn as long as the sun has not risen but when the sun rises refrain from prayer for it rises between the horns of the devil
28. He said The time for the morning prayer lasts as long as the first visible part of the rising sun does not appear and the time of the noon prayer is when the sun declines from the zenith and there is not a time for the afternoon prayer and the time for the afternoon prayer is so long as the sun does not become pale and its first visible part does not set and the time for the evening prayer is that when the sun disappears and it lasts till the twilight is no more and the time for the night prayer is up to the midnight
29. Then he commanded him and pronounced Iqama for noon prayer Then at the time of the afternoon prayer he again commanded and Iqama for the afternoon prayer was pronounced when the sun was high white and clear
30. Abu Huraira reported The Messenger of Allah said When it is hot make delay in the noon prayer till it cools down for the intensity of beat is from the Exhalation of Hell and he also mentioned that Hellfire complained to the Lord about the congested atmosphere and so it was permitted to take two exhalations during the whole year one exhalation during the winter and one exhalation during the summer
31. May Allah fill their bellies and their graves with fire or he said May Allah stuff their bellies and their graves with fire
32. Imam Muslim said Ashjai narrated it from Sufyan AlThauri who narrated it from AlAswad Bin Qais who narrated it from Uqba who narrated it from AlBara Bin Azib who said We recited with the Prophet the above mentioned verse like this i
33. Those of the angels who spend the night among you then ascend and their Lord asks them though He is the best informed about them How did you leave My servants they say We left them while they were praying and we came to them while they were praying
34. The man from Basra said I bear witness that I did hear from the Messenger of Allah saying it from the place that you heard from him
35. And when he had observed his prayer he said to the audience present Take it easy I am going to give you information and glad tidings that it is the blessing of Allah upon you for there is none among the people except you who prays at this hour of the night or he said None except you observed prayer at this
36. Ibn Juraij reported I said to Ata Which time do you deem fit for me to say the Isya prayer as an Imam or alone that time which is called by people Atama He said I heard Ibn Abbas saying The Apostle of Allah one night delayed the Isya prayer till the people went to sleep
37. Jabir Bin Samura reported The Messenger of Allah used to observe prayers like your prayers but he would delay the prayer after nightfall to a little after the time you observed it and he would shorten the prayer
38. Shuba said I met him subsequently and asked him about the prayers of the Holy Prophet and he said He observed the noon prayer when the sun was past the meridian he would pray the afternoon prayer after which a person would o to the outskirts of Medina and the sun was still bright I forgot what he said about the evening prayer I then met him on a subsequent occasion and asked him about the prayers of the Holy Prophet and he said He would observe the morning prayer at such a time so that a man would go back and would recognise his neighbour by casting a glance at his face and he would recite from sixty to one hundred verses in it
39. Abu Dharr reported The Messenger of Allah said to me How would you act when you are under the rulers who would delay the prayer beyond its prescribed time or they would make prayer a dead thing as far as its proper time is concerned I said What do you command He the Holy Prophet said Observe the prayer at Its proper time and if you can say it along with them do so for it would be a superetogatory prayer for you
40. He bit hit lips as a sign of extreme anger and annoyance and struck at my thigh and said I asked Abu Dharr as you have asked me and he struck my thigh just as I have struck your thigh and said I asked the Messenger of Allah as you have asked me and he struck my thigh just as I have struck your thigh and he the Holy Prophet said Observe prayer at its prescribed time and if you can say prayer along with them
41. If they were to know the blessings they have in store they would have come to them even though crawling and I thought that I should order the prayer to be commenced and command a person to lead people in prayer and I should then go along with some persons having a fagot of fuel with them to the people who have not attended the prayer in congregation and would burn their houses with fire
42. Massuod reported He who likes to meet Allah tomorrow as Muslim he should persevere in observing these prayers when a call is announced for them for Allah has laid down for your Prophet the paths of right guidance and these prayers are among the paths of right guidance
43. If you were to pray in your houses as this man why stays away from the mosque prays in his house you would abandon the practice of your Prophet and if you were to abandon the practice of your Prophet you would go astray
44. Mahmud said Itban Bin Malik narrated it to me that he had said Messenger of Allah I have lost my eyesight and the rest of the hadith is the same up to these words He led us in two rakahs of prayer and we detained the Messenger of Allah for serving him the pudding that we had prepared for him and no mention has been made of what follows next from the addition made by Yunus and Mamar
45. I sprinkled water over it in order to soften it and the Messenger of Allah stood upon it and I and an orphan formed a row behind him the Holy Prophet and the old woman was behind us and the Messenger of Allah led us in two rakahs of prayer and then went back
46. Abu Huraira reported Allah Messenger as saying A man prayer in congregation is more valuable than twenty degrees and some above them as compared with his prayer in his house and his market for when he performs ablution doing it well then goes out to the mosque and he is impelled to do so only by the love of congregational prayer he has no other objective before him but prayer
47. Abu Huraira reported Allah Messenger as saying The angels invoke blessings on everyone among you so long as he is in a place of worship with these words O Allah pardon him O Allah have mercy upon him and they continue to do so as long as he ablution of the worshipper is not broken and one among you is in prayer and so long as he is detained for the prayer
48. Upon this he the Holy Prophet said O Banu Salama live in your houses for your steps are recorded live in your houses for your steps are recorded
49. Abu Massuod AlAnsari reported Allah Messenger as saying The one who is most versed in Allah Book should act as Imam for the people but If they are equally versed in reciting it then the one who has most knowledge regarding Sunnah if they are equal regarding the Sunnah then the earliest one to emigrate it they emigrated at the same time then the earliest one to embrace Islam
50. So he asked us about the members of the family that we had left behind and when we informed him he said Go back to your family stay with them and teach them beliefs and practices of Islam and exhort them to good and when the time for prayer comes one amongst you should announce Adhan and then the oldest among you should lead the prayer
51. Abu Salama reported it on the authority of Abu Huraira that the Messenger of Allah recited Qunut after ruku in prayer for one mouth at the time of reciting these words Allah listened to him who praised Him and he said in Qunut Allah rescue AlWalid Bin AlWalid O Allah rescue Salama Bin Hisham O Allah rescue Ayash Bin Abu Rabia O Allah rescue the helpless amongst the Muslims O Allah trample Mudar severely O Allah cause them a famine like that which was caused at the time of Joseph
52. Asim reported I heard Anas saying Never did I ace the Messenger of Allah so much grieved at the loss of a small army as I saw him grieved at those seventy men who were called reciters and were killed at Bir Mauna and he invoked curse for full one month upon their murderers
53. Khufaf Bin Ima reported that the Messenger of Allah may peace he upon him bowed in prayer and then lifted his head and then said So far as the tribe of Ghifar is concerned Allah had pardoned it and Allah had granted protection to the tribe of Aslam and as for the tribe of Usaya It had disobeyed Allah and His Messenger and further said O Allah curse the tribe of Lihyan curse Ril and Dhakwan and then fell in prostration
54. A hadith like this has been transmitted by Khufaf Bin Ima except this that he did not mention these words cursing of unbelievers got a sanctions
55. When the time for dawn approached Bilal leaned against his camel facing the direction from which the dawn would appear but he was overcome by sleep while he was leaning against his camel and neither the Messenger of Allah nor Bilal nor anyone else among his Companions got up till the sun shone on them
56. The Messenger of Allah then rode on and we rode along with him and some of us whispered to the others saying How would there be compensation for omission in our prayers Upon this he the Messenger of Allah said Is there not in me my life a model for you There is no omission in sleeping
57. He the Holy Prophet said What do you think the people would have done at this hour They would have in the morning found their Apostle missing from amongst them and then Abu Bakr and Umar would have told them that the Messenger of Allah must be behind you he cannot leave you behind him but the people said The Messenger of Allah is ahead of you
58. She said Who is the Messenger of Allah We somehow or the other managed to bring her to the Messenger of Allah and he asked about her and she informed him as she had informed us that she was a widow having orphan children
59. The camel was then raised up and we forty thirsty men drank water till we were completely satiated and we filled up all leathern water bags and water skins that we had with us and we washed our companions but we did not make any camel drink and the leathern water bags were about to burst on account of excess of water
60. W hen she came to her family she said I have met the greatest magician amongst human beings or he is an apostle as he claims to be and she then narrated what had happened and Allah guided aright those people through that woman
61. Abu Qatada reported that when the Messenger of Allah was in a journey he got down for rest at night and he used to lie down on his right side and when he lay down for rest before the dawn he used to stretch his forearm and place his head over his palm

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