Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 8235 — A man who sneezes during prayer: what

Sayyiduna Mu'awiyah bin al-Hakam al-Sulami (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I was praying with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) when a man sneezed in the prayer, and I said to him, 'Yarhamuk Allah' (May Allah have mercy on you). The people began to glare at me. I said: May my mother lose me! Why are you looking at me? The people began to strike their thighs with their hands. When I realised that they were trying to silence me, I fell silent. Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) completed the prayer. May my father and mother be sacrificed for him; I never saw a better teacher than him, before or after. He did not scold me, nor revile me, nor hit me. Then he said: "Nothing of people's speech is fit for these prayers; prayer is only glorification (tasbih), magnification (takbir) and recitation of the Qur'an."