Toggle above to switch between keyword search and direct hadith lookup
سنن ابن ماجه
Ibn Majah
كتاب إقامة الصلاة والسنةEstablishing the Prayer and the Sunnah Regarding Them
. بَابٌ في صَلاَةِ النَّافِلَةِ قَاعِدًاChapter: Voluntary prayer while sitting
Hadith 1228
اُردوEn
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ ، حَدَّثَنَا مُعَاذُ بْنُ مُعَاذٍ ، عَنْ حُمَيْدٍ ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ شَقِيقٍ الْعُقَيْلِيِّ ، قَالَ : سَأَلْتُ عَائِشَةَ ، عَنْ صَلَاةِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ بِاللَّيْلِ ، فَقَالَتْ : " كَانَ يُصَلِّي لَيْلًا طَوِيلًا قَائِمًا ، وَلَيْلًا طَوِيلًا قَاعِدًا ، فَإِذَا قَرَأَ قَائِمًا رَكَعَ قَائِمًا ، وَإِذَا قَرَأَ قَاعِدًا رَكَعَ قَاعِدًا " .
´It was narrated that ‘Abdullah bin Shaqiq Al-‘Uqaili said:` “I asked ‘Aishah about the prayer of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) at night. She said: ‘He used to pray for a long time at night standing up, and for a long time at night sitting down. If he prayed standing, he would bow standing, and if he prayed sitting, he would bow sitting.’”
Related hadith on this topic
Brief Explanation
1؎: The point is that in supererogatory (nafl) prayers, there is complete flexibility: one may perform them sitting, or begin standing and then sit down, or begin sitting and then stand up.
Explanation & Benefits
Shaykh Maulana Abdul Aziz Alvi
Hadith Commentary: Benefits and Issues: One mudd (مد) of water amounts to two ratl, which is a quarter of a sa’ (صاع). In this way, the water will be slightly more than one liter, and in three mudd, the water will be less than three and a half liters. From this, it is understood that the Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) sometimes managed with three mudd of water instead of three sa’ for ritual bath (ghusl), or in such a case, he may not have performed the ritual bath together (i.e., with someone else). Rather, due to the vessel being small, he would have performed the ritual bath one after the other. According to some, mudd here is in the meaning of sa’.
Source: Tuhfat al-Muslim: Commentary on Sahih Muslim, Page: 730
Shaykh Umar Farooq Saeedi
955. Commentary:
The best practice is that when the recitation (qira’ah) is performed standing, then the bowing (ruku‘) should also be performed standing; and if the recitation is performed sitting, then the bowing should also be performed sitting... This, and the aforementioned scenario—i.e., if a portion of the rak‘ah is performed standing and a portion sitting—is also permissible.
The best practice is that when the recitation (qira’ah) is performed standing, then the bowing (ruku‘) should also be performed standing; and if the recitation is performed sitting, then the bowing should also be performed sitting... This, and the aforementioned scenario—i.e., if a portion of the rak‘ah is performed standing and a portion sitting—is also permissible.
Source: Sunan Abu Dawood – Commentary by Shaykh Umar Farooq Saeedi, Page: 955
