Those who permitted that

Sayyiduna Abu Dharr (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I asked the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) about many things. Once I asked him whether one may move the pebbles during prayer. He said: "Straighten them once; and if you do not need to, then do not do it even once."

Sayyiduna Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I asked the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) about everything. Once I asked about straightening the pebbles, and he said: "Straighten them once; and if you do not need to, then do not do it even once."

Sayyiduna Mu'ayqib (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) once said about disturbing the pebbles: "If you must straighten them, then do it once."

Sayyiduna Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I asked the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) about moving the pebbles during prayer, and he said: "You are permitted to disturb them once; and if you refrain from that, it is better for you than a hundred she-camels, every one of them with black pupils."

Abdullah bin Ayyash bin Abi Rabi'ah said: Once I was praying when Sayyiduna Abu Dharr (may Allah be pleased with him) passed by me. He said: "The hand is to be passed over the ground only once."

Sayyiduna Abdullah (bin Mas'ud) (may Allah be pleased with him) used to permit passing the hand over the ground only once to move the pebbles.

The paternal uncle of Abd al-Rahman bin al-Aswad said: I saw Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) levelling the pebbles with his hand during prayer; then he pressed them down with his hand and then prostrated on them.

Al-Aswad said that Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) pressed the pebbles down with his hand and then prostrated on them.

Mujahid said: Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) used to permit straightening the pebbles once during prayer, and he would say: "If he does not disturb them even once, that is better."

Nafi' said: Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) would sometimes level the pebbles with his foot while standing in prayer.

Abu Ja'far al-Qari, the freed slave of Ibn Ayyash, said: I saw Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) level the pebbles during prayer by lightly passing his hand over them.

Abu Ja'far said: I saw Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) level the pebbles with his foot while standing in prayer.

Muhammad (Ibn Sirin) said: Sayyiduna Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Like this, once, or leave it" and he passed his hand over the ground. Abu Usamah said: He meant levelling the pebbles, or something else, at the place of his prostration.

Abu Salih used to permit levelling the pebbles once by passing the hand over them.

Ibrahim saw no harm in levelling the pebbles once.

Al-A'ghar bin Yahya said: I saw al-Hasan levelling the pebbles at the place of his prostration while he was in prayer.