Narrated Mihjan ibn al-Adra': The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم entered the mosque and saw a man who had finished his prayer, and was reciting the tashahhud saying: O Allah, I ask you, O Allah, the One, the eternally besought of all, He begetteth not, nor was He begotten, and there is none comparable unto Him, that you may forgive me my sins, you are Most Forgiving, Merciful. He (the Prophet) said: He was forgiven (repeating three times. )
Read More..Narrated Abdullah ibn Masud: It pertains to the sunnah to utter the tashahhud quietly.
Read More..Abdur-Rahman al-Muawl said: Abdullah bin Umar saw me playing with pebbles during prayer. When he finished his prayer, he forbade me (to do so) and said: Do as the Messenger صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم used to do. I asked him: How would the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم do? He said: When he sat during the prayer (for reciting the tashahhud), he placed his right hand on his right thigh, and clenched all his fingers, and pointed with the finger which is adjacent to the thumb, and he placed his left hand on his left thigh.
Read More..Abdullah bin al-Zubair said: When the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم sat during the prayer ( at the tashahhud), he placed his left foot under his right thigh and shin and spread his right foot and placed his left hand on his left knee and placed his right hand on his right thigh, and he pointed with his forefinger.
Read More..Narrated Abdullah ibn az-Zubayr: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم used to point with his finger (at the end of the tashahhud) and he would not move it. Ibn Juraij said: And Amr bin Dinar added: 'He (Ziyad) said: Amir informed me from his father that he saw the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم supplicating like that. And the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم would brace himself with his left hand on his left knee.
Read More..Abdullah bin al-Zubair narrated the above mentioned tradition on the authority of his father saying: He kept his look fixed on the finger he was pointing.
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