Ibn Umar reported: One day while the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلمwas giving sermon he suddenly saw phlegm on the wall towards the qiblah (the direction to which Muslims turn in prayer) of the mosque. So he became angry at people. He then scraped it and sent for saffron and stained with it. He then said: When any one of you prays, Allah, the Exalted, faces him: he, therefore, should not spit before him.
Read More..Abu Saeed Al-khudri said: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم liked the twigs of the date-palm, and he often had one of them in his hand. He entered the mosque and saw phlegm in the wall towards qiblah and he scraped it. He then turned towards people in anger and said: Is any one of you is pleased to spit in his face? When any of you faces qiblah, he indeed faces his Lord, the Majestic the Glorious: the angels are at right side. Therefore, he should not spit on his right side or before him towards qiblah. He should spit towards his left side or beneath his foot. If he is in a hurry, he should do so-and-so. Describing it Ibn ‘Ajlan said: He should spit in his cloth and fold a part of it over the other.
Read More..Narrated Abu Sahlah as-Saib ibn Khallad: A man led the people in prayer. He spat towards qiblah while the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم was looking at him. The Messenger of Allah said to the people when he finished his prayer: He should not lead you in prayer (henceforth). Thenceforth he intended to lead them in prayer, but they forbade him and informed him of the prohibition of the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم. He mentioned it to the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم who said to him: Yes. The narrator said: I think he (the Prophet) said: You did harm to Allah and His Messenger.
Read More..Abu al-Ala reported on the authority of his father: I came to the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم who was saying prayer. He spat beneath his left foot
Read More..Abu al-Ala reported this tradition on the authority of his father to the same effect with a different chain of narrators. This version adds: “He then rubbed it with his shoe.
Read More..Narrated Wathilah ibn al-Asqa: Abu Saeed said: I saw Wathilah ibn al-Asqa in the mosque of Damascus. He spat at the mat and then rubbed it with his foot. He was asked: Why did you do so? He said: Because I saw the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم doing so.
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