Narrated `Aisha: the mother of the faithful believers: Allah's Apostle in his last illness said, Tell Abu Bakr to lead the people in the prayer. I said, If Abu Bakr stood in your place, he would not be able to make the people hear him owing to his weeping. So please order `Umar to lead the prayer. He said, Tell Abu Bakr to lead the people in the prayer. I said to Hafsa, Say to him, 'Abu Bakr is a softhearted man and if he stood in your place he would not be able to make the people hear him owing to his weeping. So order `Umar to lead the people in the prayer.' Hafsa did so but Allah's Apostle said, Keep quiet. Verily you are the companions of (Prophet) Joseph. Tell Abu Bakr to lead the people in the prayer. Hafsa said to me, I never got any good from you.
Read More..Narrated An-Nu`man bin 'Bashir: The Prophet said, Straighten your rows or Allah will alter your faces.
Read More..Narrated Anas: The Prophet said, Straighten your rows, for I see you from behind my back.'
Read More..Narrated Anas bin Malik: Once the Iqama was pronounced and Allah's Apostle faced us and said, Straighten your rows and stand closer together, for I see you from behind my back.'
Read More..Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet said, Martyrs are those who die because of drowning, plague, an Abdominal disease, or of being buried alive by a falling building.
Read More..And then he added, If the people knew the Reward for the Zuhr prayer in its early time, they would race for it. If they knew the reward for the `Isha' and the Fajr prayers in congregation, they would join them even if they had to crawl. If they knew the reward for the first row, they would draw lots for it.
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