Hadith 912
Jabir bin Samurah said (this is the version of the narrator Uthman): The Messenger of Allah ﷺ entered the mosque and saw there some people praying raising their hand towards the heaven. (This Is the common version: ) He said: People must stop raising their eyes to the heaven. The narrator Musaddad said: During prayer, otherwise their sight will be taken away.
Hadith 913
حَدَّثَنَا
مُسَدَّدٌ ، حَدَّثَنَا
يَحْيَى ، عَنْ
سَعِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي عَرُوبَةَ ، عَنْ
قَتَادَةَ ، أَنَّ
أَنَسَ بْنَ مَالِكٍ حَدَّثَهُمْ ، قَالَ : قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ : " مَا بَالُ أَقْوَامٍ يَرْفَعُونَ أَبْصَارَهُمْ فِي صَلَاتِهِمْ " فَاشْتَدَّ قَوْلُهُ فِي ذَلِكَ ، فَقَالَ : " لَيَنْتَهُنَّ عَنْ ذَلِكَ أَوْ لَتُخْطَفَنَّ أَبْصَارُهُمْ " .
Anas bin Malik reported the Messenger of Allah ﷺ assaying: What is the matter that people raise their (Upwards) in prayer. He then said sternly: They should stop doing that, otherwise their sight will be snatched away.
Hadith 914
Aishah said: the Messenger of Allah ﷺ once prayed with a sheet of cloth upon him. It had prints and paintings. He said: The prints of this (sheet) distracted my attention; take it to Abu Jahm and bring a blanket to me.
Hadith 915
The above-mentioned tradition has also been narrated by Aishah through a different chain of transmitters. This version adds: He (the prophet) took a kind of sheet of cloth known as kurdi which belongs to Abu Jahm. The people told him; Messenger of Allah, the (former) sheet of cloth was better than this kind of kurdi sheet.