Sifat Salat Al Nabi ( ﷺ) Flashcards
Facing the Ka’abah
إذ قمت إلى الصلاة فأسبغ الوضوء ثم استقبل القبلة فكبر
The prophet peace be upon him said to the one who prayed badly: “ when you stand for prayer, perform abulation perfectly, then face the qiblah and say takbeer
What do we do in prayer during severe fear
( when the armies meet)
The prophet ﷺ set the example for his Ummah to pray ‘ on foot, standing on their feet, or mounted; facing the qiblah or not facing it
The Prophet ﷺ used to pray towards Bait Al Muqadas ( with the Kaaba in front of him) before the following the verse was revealed…. What is the verse?
قَدْ نَرَىٰ تَقَلُّبَ وَجْهِكَ فِى ٱلسَّمَآءِ ۖ فَلَنُوَلِّيَنَّكَ قِبْلَةًۭ تَرْضَىٰهَا ۚ فَوَلِّ وَجْهَكَ شَطْرَ ٱلْمَسْجِدِ ٱلْحَرَامِ ۚ
“We see the turning of you faces to the heaven; now shall we turn you to a Qiblah that shall please you: turn the your direction of the sacred Mosque”
Surah Al Baqarah ( 2:144)
Standing in prayer
The Prophet ﷺ use to stand for both obligatory and voluntary prayers carrying out the command for the Exalted:
و قوموا لله قانتين
And stand before Allah devoutly
( surah Al Baqarah 2:238)
The prayer of a Sick Person in a Sitting Position- Hadith of Imran for a sick person who is able to undergo hardship and stand with difficulty
The prophet peace be upon him said: “ he who prays standing, that is better ; he show prays sitting, his reward is half that if the former. He who prays lying down ( and in another narration: reclining ) has half the reward of the one who sits
Prayer on the ship
The prophet peace be upon him said: ‘ pray on it standing unless you are afraid of drowning ‘
صل قائما إلا أن تخاف الغرق
Sitting and standing in the Night prayer ( Tahajjud)
He the prophet peace be upon him used to pray long through the night standing and long through the night sitting, and if he recited standing, he would bow standing and he recited sitting he would bow sitting
Muslim and Abu Dawoud
Prayer wearing shoes and command to do so
The prophet peace be upon him used ‘ to stand in prayer bare footed sometimes and wearing shoes sometimes’
“كان يقف حافيا أحيانًا ومنتعلا أحيانًا
Abu Dawoud and Ibn Majah
It is a mutawatir hadeeth ( chain of successions )
Why did the prophet encourage prayer wearing shoes ?
The prophet peace be upon him said: ‘ be different from the Jews, for they do not pray in their shoes nor in their Khuffs ( leather socks )
خالفوا اليهود فإنهم لا يصلون في نعالهم ولا خفافهم
Abu Sa’eed Al khudri has said….
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ prayed with us one day. Whilst he was engaged in the prayer he took off his shoes and placed them on his left. When the people saw this, they took off their shoes. When he finished his prayer he said ‘ why did u take your shoes off?’ They said ‘We saw you taking it off, so we took our shoes off.’ He said ‘ Verily Jibril came to me and informed me that there was dirt- or he said something harmful’ ( in other narration filth) on my shoes so I took them off ‘
Prayer at the pulpit ( minbar )
The prophet ﷺ stood on it and made takbeer and the behind him made takbeer while he was on the minbar. Then he made rukoo’ on the minbar then he rose and descended backwards to make sajdah at the foot of the minbar. Then he returned ( and did on it as he had done on the first rak’ah) until he completed his prayer. He then turned to the people and said ‘ O people! I have done this so that you may follow me and learn my prayer ‘
يا أيها الناس إني صنعت هذا لتأتموا بي ولتعلموا صلاتي
The sutrah ( screen/ cover ) and the obligation to have one
The prophet ﷺ, ‘He used to stand near to the sutrah so that there was a distance of 3 cubits between him and the wall’
{Bukhari and Ahmad }
He used to say: ‘ Do not pray except towards a sutrah and do not let anyone pass in front of you, but if someone continues to try to pass then fight him,for he has a companion ( ie shaytan) with him’
He would also say: ‘ when one of you prays towards a sutrah, he should get close to it so that shaytan cannot beak his prayer’
Ibn Khuzaimah in his saheeh (1/93/1) with a sound isnaad
