Anas bin Malik reported: A man from the Ansar said: I am a corpulent man-and he was (actually) a fat man; I cannot pray along with you. He prepared food for him and invited him to his house. (he said) (please) pray (here) so that I may see how you pray, and then I would follow you. They (the people) washed one side of their mat. He (the prophet) then got up and prayed two Rak’ahs. Ibn al-Jarud asked Anas bin Malik: would he (the prophet) say the forenoon prayer? He replied: I did not see him offering this prayer except that day.
Read More..Anas bin Malik said; the prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم used to visit Umm Sulaim. Sometimes the time for prayer would come and he would pray on out carpet that was really a mat. She (Umm Sulaim) used to wash it with water.
Read More..Narrated Al-Mughirah ibn Shubah: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم used to pray on a mat and on a tanned skin.
Read More..Anas bin Malik said: we used to pray along with the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم in intense heat. When any of us could not rest his face on bare ground while prostrating due to intense heat he spread his cloth and would prostrate on it.
Read More..Jabir bin Samurah reported the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم as saying: Why do you stand in rows as the angels do in the presence of their Lord? We asked: how do the angles stand in rows in the presence of their Lord? He replied: they make the first row complete and keep close together in the row.
Read More..Al-Numan bin Bashir said: the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم paid attention to the people and said three times; straighten your rows (in prayer); by Allah, you must straighten your rows, or Allah will certainly put your faces in contrary directions. I then saw that every person stood in prayer keeping his shoulder close to that of the other, and his knee close to that of the other, and his ankle close to that of the other.
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