Abdullah bin Amr said: It has been narrated to me that the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: The Prayer of a man in sitting condition is half the prayer (wins him half the reward of prayer). I came to him and found him prayer in sitting condition. I placed my hand on my head (in surprise). He said: what is the matter, Abdullah bin Amr? I said; Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم you have been reported to me as saying: the prayer of a man in sitting condition is half the prayer, but you are praying in sitting condition. He said: yes, but I am not like one of you.
Read More..Abdullah bin Buraidah said: Imran bin Hussain asked the prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم about the prayer a man offers in sitting condition. He replied: his prayer in standing condition is better than his prayer in sitting condition, and his prayer in sitting condition is half the prayer he offers in standing condition, and his prayer in lying condition is half the prayer he offers in sitting condition.
Read More..Imran bin Husain said: I had a fistula; so I asked the prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم. He said: offer prayer in standing condition; if you are unable to do so, then in sitting condition: if you are then at your side (i. e, in lying condition).
Read More..Aishah said: I never saw the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم reciting the Quraan in his prayer at night in sitting condition until he became old. Then he used to sit in it (the prayer) and recite the Quran until forty or thirty verses remained, then he stood and recited them and prostrated himself.
Read More..Aishah, wife of the prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم, said: when the prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم prayed sitting, he recited the Quran in sitting condition. When the amount of his recitation remained about thirty or forty verses he stood up and recited them standing. He then bowed and prostrated and then did so in the second Rak’ah of the prayer. Abu Dawud said: Alqamah bin Waqqas narrated this tradition on the authority of Aishah from the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم to the same effect.
Read More..Aishah said: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم used to pray standing at night for a long time, and used to pray sitting at night for a long time. When he prayed standing, he bowed standing, and when he prayed sitting, he bowed sitting.
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