Sunan Abu Dawud

chapter_name of Sunan Abu Dawud is from Chapter No. 1, chapter_name, written by Abu Dawud Al-Sijistani. This chapter contains 000 hadiths, specifically hadiths about The chapter_name. The Sunan Abu Dawud collection encompasses a total of fifty-two chapters and 4800 hadiths.
Chapter Name
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)
Book Name
Sunan Abi Dawud by Abu Dawud Al-Sijistani
Book Writer
Abu Dawud Al-Sijistani
Chapter No
2
Numbers Of Hadith In Chapter
770
Translation
Arabic, English and Urdu
Narrated Wail ibn Hujr: I purposely looked at the prayer of the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم, how he offered it. The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم stood up, faced the direction of the qiblah and uttered the takbir (Allah is most great) and then raised his hands in front of his ears, then placed his right hand on his left (catching each other). When he was about to bow, he raised them in the same manner. He then placed his hands on his knees. When he raised his head after bowing, he raised them in the like manner. When he prostrated himself he placed his forehead between his hands. He then sat down and spread his left foot and placed his left hand on his left thigh, and kept his right elbow aloof from his right thigh. He closed his two fingers and made a circle (with the fingers). I (Asim ibn Kulayb) saw him (Bishr ibn al-Mufaddal) say in this manner. Bishr made the circle with the thumb and the middle finger and pointed with the forefinger.
حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ، ‏‏‏‏‏‏حَدَّثَنَا بِشْرُ بْنُ الْمُفَضَّلِ، ‏‏‏‏‏‏عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ كُلَيْبٍ، ‏‏‏‏‏‏عَنْ أَبِيهِ، ‏‏‏‏‏‏عَنْ وَائِلِ بْنِ حُجْرٍ، ‏‏‏‏‏‏قَالَ:‏‏‏‏ قُلْتُ لَأَنْظُرَنَّ إِلَى صَلَاةِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ كَيْفَ يُصَلِّي، ‏‏‏‏‏‏قَالَ:‏‏‏‏ فَقَامَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَاسْتَقْبَلَ الْقِبْلَةَ فَكَبَّرَ فَرَفَعَ يَدَيْهِ حَتَّى حَاذَتَا أُذُنَيْهِ، ‏‏‏‏‏‏ثُمَّ أَخَذَ شِمَالَهُ بِيَمِينِهِ، ‏‏‏‏‏‏فَلَمَّا أَرَادَ أَنْ يَرْكَعَ رَفَعَهُمَا مِثْلَ ذَلِكَ ثُمَّ وَضَعَ يَدَيْهِ عَلَى رُكْبَتَيْهِ، ‏‏‏‏‏‏فَلَمَّا رَفَعَ رَأْسَهُ مِنَ الرُّكُوعِ رَفَعَهُمَا مِثْلَ ذَلِكَ، ‏‏‏‏‏‏فَلَمَّا سَجَدَ وَضَعَ رَأْسَهُ بِذَلِكَ الْمَنْزِلِ مِنْ بَيْنِ يَدَيْهِ، ‏‏‏‏‏‏ثُمَّ جَلَسَ فَافْتَرَشَ رِجْلَهُ الْيُسْرَى وَوَضَعَ يَدَهُ الْيُسْرَى عَلَى فَخِذِهِ الْيُسْرَى وَحَدَّ مِرْفَقَهُ الْأَيْمَنَ عَلَى فَخِذِهِ الْيُمْنَى وَقَبَضَ ثِنْتَيْنِ وَحَلَّقَ حَلْقَةً، ‏‏‏‏‏‏وَرَأَيْتُهُ يَقُولُ هَكَذَا:‏‏‏‏ وَحَلَّقَ بِشْرٌ الْإِبْهَامَ وَالْوُسْطَى وَأَشَارَ بِالسَّبَّابَةِ .
وائل بن حجر رضی اللہ عنہ کہتے ہیں کہ   میں نے کہا: میں ضرور رسول اللہ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم کی نماز دیکھوں گا کہ آپ کس طرح نماز ادا کرتے ہیں؟ ( میں نے دیکھا ) کہ رسول اللہ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم قبلہ رخ کھڑے ہوئے اور آپ نے اللہ اکبر کہا، پھر دونوں ہاتھوں کو اٹھایا یہاں تک کہ وہ دونوں کانوں کے بالمقابل ہو گئے، پھر اپنے دائیں ہاتھ سے اپنے بائیں ہاتھ کو پکڑا، پھر جب آپ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم نے رکوع کا ارادہ کیا تو بھی اسی طرح ہاتھوں کو اٹھایا، پھر دونوں ہاتھ اپنے گھٹنوں پر رکھے، پھر رکوع سے سر اٹھاتے وقت بھی انہیں اسی طرح اٹھایا، پھر جب سجدہ کیا تو اپنے سر کو اپنے دونوں ہاتھوں کے بیچ اس جگہ پہ رکھا، پھر بیٹھے تو اپنا بایاں پیر بچھایا، اور بائیں ہاتھ کو اپنی بائیں ران پر رکھا، اور اپنی داہنی کہنی کو داہنی ران سے جدا رکھا اور دونوں انگلیوں ( خنصر، بنصر ) کو بند کر لیا اور دائرہ بنا لیا ( یعنی بیچ کی انگلی اور انگوٹھے سے ) ۔ بشر بن مفضل بیان کرتے ہیں: میں نے اپنے شیخ عاصم بن کلیب کو دیکھا وہ اسی طرح کرتے تھے، اور بشر نے انگوٹھے اور بیچ کی انگلی کا دائرہ بنایا اور انگشت شہادت سے اشارہ کیا۔

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The above tradition has been transmitted by Asim bin Kulaib through a different chain of narrators and to the same effect. This version has: “He then placed his right hand on the back of his left palm and his wrist and forearm. ” This also adds: “I then came back afterwards in a season when it was severe cold. I saw the people putting on heavy clothes moving their hands under the clothes (i. e. raised their hands before and after bowing). ”

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Narrated Wail ibn Hujr: I witnessed the Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم raise his hands in front of his ears when he began to pray. I then came back and saw them (the people) raising their hands up to their chest when they began to pray. They wore long caps and blankets.

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Wail bin Hujr said: I came to the Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم during winter; I saw his companions raise their hands in their clothes in prayer

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Abu Humaid al-Saeedi once told a company of ten of the companions of the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم ; Abu Qatadah was one of them: I am one among you who is more informed of the way the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم prayed. They said: Why, By Allah, you did not follow him more than us, nor did you remain in his company longer than us? He said: Yes. They said: Then describe (how the Prophet prayed). He said: When the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم stood up to pray, he raised his hands so as to bring them opposite his shoulders, and uttered the takbir (Allah is the most great), until every bone rested in its place properly: then re recited (some verses from the Quran); then he uttered the takbir (Allah is most great), raising his hands so as to bring them opposite his shoulders; then he bowed; placing the palms of his hands on his knees and keeping himself straight, neither raising nor lowering his head; then raised his head saying: “Allah listens to him who praise Him”; then raised his hands so as to bring them exactly opposite to his shoulders; then uttered: “Allah is most great”; then lowered himself to the ground (in prostration), keeping his arms away from his sides; then raised his head, bent his left foot and sat on it, and opened the toes when he prostrated: then he uttered: “Allah is most great”; then raised his head, bent his left foot and sat on it so that every bone returned to its place properly; then he did the same in the second (rak’ah). At the end of the two Rak’ahs he stood up and uttered the takbir (Allah is most great), raising his hands so as to bring them opposite to his shoulders; then he bowed, placing the palms of his hands on his knees and keeping himself straight, neither raising or lowering his head: then raised his head saying: “Allah listens to him who praises Him”; then raised his hands so as to bring them exactly opposite his shoulders; then uttered: “Allah is most great”; then lowered himself to the ground (in prostration), keeping his arms away from his sides; then raised his head, bent his left foot and sat on it, and opened the toes when he prostrated himself; then he prostrated; then uttered: “Allah is most great”; then raised his head, bent his left foot and sat on it so that every bone returned to its place properly; then he did the same in the second (rak’ah). At the end of two rak’ahs he stood up and uttered the takbir (Allah is most great), raising his hands so as to bring them opposite to his shoulders in the way he had uttered the Takbir (Allah is most great) at the beginning of the prayer; then he did that in the remainder of his prayer; and after prostration which if followed by the taslim (salutation) he out his left foot and sat on his left hip. They said: You have spoken the truth. This is how he صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم used to pray.

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Amr al-Amiri said: I (once) attended the meeting of the companions of the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم. They began to discuss his prayer. Abu Humaid then narrated a part of the same tradition and said: When he bowed he clutched his knees with his palms, and he opened his fingers; then he bent his back without raising his upwards, and did not turn his face (on any side). When he sat at the end of two rak’ahs he sat on the sole of his left foot and raised the right, and after the fourth he placed his left hip on the ground and spread out both his feet one side.

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The above mentioned tradition has also been reported by Muhammad bin Amr bin Ata through a different chain of narrators. This version adds: “When he prostrated himself he neither placed his arms on the ground nor closed them; putting forward his fingers towards the qiblah. ”

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