سنن ابي داود
Abu Dawud
تفرح أبواب السترةPrayer (Tafarah Abwab As Sutrah)
باب مَا يُؤْمَرُ الْمُصَلِّي أَنْ يَدْرَأَ عَنِ الْمَمَرِّ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِChapter: The Command To The One Who Is Praying To Block Others From Crossing In Front Of Him.
Hadith 698
اُردوEn
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْعَلَاءِ ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو خَالِدٍ ، عَنْ ابْنِ عَجْلَانَ ، عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ أَسْلَمَ ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ ، قَالَ : قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ : إِذَا صَلَّى أَحَدُكُمْ فَلْيُصَلِّ إِلَى سُتْرَةٍ وَلْيَدْنُ مِنْهَا ثُمَّ سَاقَ مَعْنَاهُ .
Abu Saeed al-Khudri reported the Messenger of Allah ﷺ as saying: When one of you prays, he should pray facing the sutrah (screen or covering) and he should keep himself close to it. He then narrated the tradition to the same effect.
Explanation & Benefits
Shaykh Umar Farooq Saeedi
698. Commentary:
If a person, despite the presence of a sutrah, tries to pass in front of someone praying and persists in doing so, then he is of a devilish nature. He should be stopped even during the prayer, and the manner of stopping is to gesture with the hand. And the meaning of «فليقاتله» "let him fight him" is to try to stop him forcefully, not to fight in the well-known sense of physical combat.
If a person, despite the presence of a sutrah, tries to pass in front of someone praying and persists in doing so, then he is of a devilish nature. He should be stopped even during the prayer, and the manner of stopping is to gesture with the hand. And the meaning of «فليقاتله» "let him fight him" is to try to stop him forcefully, not to fight in the well-known sense of physical combat.
Source: Sunan Abu Dawood – Commentary by Shaykh Umar Farooq Saeedi, Page: 698
