Category:The Book of the Commencement of the Prayer in Sunan AlNasai

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1. It was narrated from Malik Bin AlHuwairith who was one of the companions of the Prophet that When the Messenger of Allah prayed he would raise his hands when he said the Takbir until they were parallel to his ears and when he wanted to bow and when he raised his head from bowing
2. Saeed Bin Saman said Abu Hurairah came to the Masjid of Banu Zuraiq and said There are three things that the Messenger of Allah used to do and the people have abandoned he used to raise his hands extended when praying and he would fall silent briefly and say takbir when he prostrated and when he sat up
3. It was narrated from Abdullah Bin Umar that A man stood behind the Prophet of Allah and said Allahu Akbaru kabira Alhamdu Lillahi kathira wa subhan Allahi bukratan was asila Allah is Most Great and much praise be to Allah and glorified be Allah at the beginning and end of the day
4. The Prophet of Allah said Who spoke these words A man said I did O Prophet of Allah SWT
5. Then he sat up and placed his left leg under him he put his left hand on his left thigh and knee and he put the edge of his right elbow on his right thigh then he held two of his fingers together and made a circle and raised his forefinger and I saw him moving it and supplicating with it
6. O Allah put a great distance between me and my sins as great as the distance You have made between the East and the West O Allah cleanse me of my sins as a white garment is cleansed from filth O Allah wash away my sins with water and snow and hail
7. Indeed my salah prayer my sacrifice my living and my dying are for Allah the Lord of all that exists
8. Anta Almaliku la ilaha illa ant ana abduka zalamtu nafsi wataraftu bidhanbi faghfirli dhunubi jamian la yaghfirudhunuba illa anta wahdini lihasani Alahklaqi la yahdi li ahsaniha illa anta wasrif anni sayaha la yasrifu anni sayaha illa anta labaika wa sadaika Alkhairu kulluhu fi yadaika wash sharru laisa ilaika ana bika wa ilaika ana bika wa ilaika tabarkta wa taalaita astaghfiruka wa atubu ilaik
9. It was narrated from Anas I prayed with the Prophet and with Abu Bakr and Umar may Allah be pleased with them both and they started with All the praise and thanks be to Allah the Lord of all that exists
10. My Ummah will come to me then a man among them will be pulled away and I will say O Lord he is one of my Ummah and He will say to me You do not know what he did after you were gone
11. Ibn Abdullah Bin Mughaffal said If Abdullah Bin Mughaffal heard any one of us recite In the Name of Allah the Most Gracious the Most Merciful he would say I prayed behind the Messenger of Allah and behind Abu Bakr and behind Umar may Allah be pleased with them both and I did not hear any of them recite In the Name of Allah the Most Gracious the Most Merciful
12. And when he says Guide us to the straight way the way of those on whom You have bestowed Your grace not the way of those who earned Your anger nor of those who went astray He says This is for My slave and My slave shall have what he asked for
13. He said Does not Allah say O you who believe Answer Allah by obeying Him and His Messenger when he calls you to that which will give you life Shall I not teach you the greatest surah before I leave the masjid Then he went to leave and I said O Messenger of Allah what about what you said He said All praise and thanks be to Allah Lord of all that exists
14. It was narrated that Ubadah Bin AlSamit said The Messenger of Allah led us in one of the prayers in which the recitation is done out loud and he said None of you should recite when I recite out loud apart from the Umm Al Al Fatihah
15. A man among the Ansar said Is that obligatory He Abu AlDarda turned to me Kathir as I was closest of the people to him and said I think that if the Imam leads the people that is sufficient for them
16. He said Say SubhanAllah Alhamdulilah wa la illaha il AlAllah wa Allahu Akbar wa la hawla wa la quwata illa Billahi Alaliy Alazim Glory be to Allah praise be to Allah there is none worthy of worship except Allah Allah is Most Great and there is no power and no strength except with Allah the Exalted and Magnificent
17. It was narrated from Abu Hurairah that The Prophet said When the reciter says Amin then say Amin too for the angels say Amin and if a person Amin coincides with the Amin of the angels Allah will forgive his previous sins Imam saying Amin out loud Sahih Darussalam
18. It was narrated that Abu Hurairah said The Messenger of Allah said When the Imam says Not the way of those who earned Your anger nor of those who went astray say Amin for the angels say Amin and the Imam says Amin and if a person Amin coincides with the Amin of the angels his previous sins will be forgiven
19. Urwah Bin AlZubair narrated that AlMiswar Bin Makhramah and Abdulrahman Bin Abd AlQari told him that They heard Umar Bin AlKhattab say I heard Hisham Bin Hakim Bin Hizam reciting Surat AlFurqan during the lifetime of the Messenger of Allah so I listened to his recitation and he was reciting it in a way that the Messenger of Allah had not taught me
20. Ibn Abbad narrated that The Messenger of Allah used to recite in teh first rakah of Fajr Say We believe in Allah and that which has been sent down to us to the end verse and in the second rakah We believe in Allah and bear witness that we are Muslims
21. It was narrated that Aishah said I would see the Messenger of Allah praying two rakahs of Fajr and making them so brief that I said Did he recite the Umm AlKitab in them Making the two rakahs of Fajr brief Sahih Darussalam
22. What the Messenger of Allah made us hear by reciting out loud we make you hear and what he hid from us by reciting silently we hide from you
23. What the Messenger of Allah made us hear by reciting out loud we make you hear and what he hid from us by reciting silently we hide from you
24. It was narrated that Abu Saeed AlKhudri said The Iqamah for Zuhr prayer would be said and a person could go to the AlBaqi relieve himself perform wudhu and come to the masjid and the Messenger of Allah would still be in the first rakah making it lengthy
25. He asid O slave girl bring me water for Wudhu I have never prayed behind any Imam whose prayer more closely resembles the prayer of the Messenger of Allah than this Imam of yours
26. The narrator Sulaiman siad He used to make the first two rakahs of Zuhr lengthy and the last two shorter and he would make Asr shorter in Maghrib he would recite the short Mufassal surahs in Isha the medium length Mufassal surahs and in Subh the long Mufassal surahs
27. News of that reached the Prophet and he said Do you want to cause hardship to the people O Muadh do you want to cause hardship to the people O Muadh Why dont you recite Glorify the Name of your Lord the Most High and By the sun and its brightness and the like Reciting Glorify the Name of your Lord the Most High in Maghrib Sahih Darussalam
28. Marwan Bin AlHakam narrated that Zaid Bin Thabit said Why do I see you reciting short surahs in Maghrib when I saw the Messenger of Allah reciting the longer of the two long surahs in it I said O Abu Abdullah what is the longer of the two long surahs He said A AlAraf
29. The Prophet said Do you want to cause hardship to the people O Muadh do you want to cause hardship to the people O Muadh Why didnt you recite Glorify the Name of your Lord Most High or AlDuha or When the heaven is cleft asunder Reciting Glorify the Name of your Lord the Most High in Isha Sahih Darussalam
30. He recited and when he came to a verse that mentioned punishment he would pause and seek refuge with Allah if he came to a verse that mentioned mercy he would pause for mercy
31. It was narrated from Hudhaifah that The Prophet recited Surat AlBaqarah AlImran and AlNisa in one rakah and he did not reach any verse that spoke of mercy but he asked Allah for it nor any verse that spoke of punishment but he asked Allah for protection therefrom
32. The verse was If You punish them they are Your slaves and if You forgive them verily You only You are the Al AlMighty the Al AlWise
33. When he led his companions in prayer he would raise his voice One of the narrators Ibn Mani said He would recite the out loud And when the idolators heard his voice they would insult the and the One Who revealed it and the one who brought it
34. So Allah the Mighty and Sublime said to His Prophet And offer your salah prayer neither aloud that is such that the idolators can hear your recitation and insult the nor in a low voice so that your companions cannot hear but follow a way between
35. It was narrated from Yala Bin Mamlak that He asked Umm Salamah about the recitation and prayer of the Messenger of Allah and she said Why do you want to know about his prayer Then she described his recitation and as being so measured and clear that each letter could be distinguished
36. Then he would say the takbir when he went down in prostration then he said the takbir when he stood up after two rakahs after saying the Tashahhud and he did that until he had finished the prayer
37. When he had finished his prayer and said the Salam he turned to the people in the masjid and said By the One in Whose Hand is my soul I am the one among you whose prayer most closely resembles that of the Messenger of Allah

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