Narrated Ibn Umar: A man passed by the Prophet ﷺ while he was urinating, and saluted him. The Prophet ﷺ did not return the salutation to him. Abu Dawud said: It is narrated on the authority of Ibn Umar that the Prophet ﷺ performed tayammum, then he returned the salutation to the man.

Narrated Hudhaifah: When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ got up during the night (to pray), he cleansed his mouth with the tooth-stick.

Narrated Ali ibn Abu Talib: The key to prayer is purification; its beginning is takbir and its end is taslim.

Narrated Aishah: I and the Messenger of Allaah ﷺ took a bath from one vessel while we were sexually defiled.

Abdullah bin Amr reported: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ saw some people (performing ablution) while their heels were dry. He then said: Woe to the heels because of Hell. Perform the ablution in full.

Al-Rubayyi reported: The Prophet ﷺ wiped his head with water which was left over in his hand.

Ata bin Yasar quoting Ibn. Abbas said: May I not tell you how the Messenger of Allah ﷺ performed ablution? He then performed ablution washing each limb once only.

Narrated Al-Mughirah ibn Shubah: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ performed ablution and wiped over the stockings and shoes. Abu Dawud said: Abdur-Rahman bin Mahdi did not narrate this tradition because the familiar version from al-Mughirah says that the Prophet ﷺ wiped over the socks. Abu Musa al-Ashari has also reported: The Prophet ﷺ wiped over stockings. But the chain of narrators of this tradition is neither continous nor strong. Ali bin Abi Talib, Ibn Masud, al-Bara bin Aziz, Anas bin Malik, Abu Umamah, Sahl bin Saad and Amr bin Huriath also wiped over the stockings.

Narrated Hakam ibn Sufyan ath-Thaqafi: When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ urinated, he performed ablution and sprinkled water on private parts of the body. Abu Dawud said: A group of scholars agreed with Sufyan upon this chain of narrators. Some have mentioned the name of Sufyan bin al-Hakam, and others al-Hakam bin Sufyan.

Buraidah on the authority of his father reported: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ performed five prayers with the same ablution of the occasion of the capture of Makkah, and he wiped over his socks. Umar said to him (the Prophet): I saw you doing a thing today that you never did. He said: I did it deliberately.

Narrated Aishah, Ummul Muminin: The Prophet ﷺ kissed me and did not perform ablution. Abu Dawud said: This tradition is Mursal (i. e. where the link of the Companions is missing and the Successor reports from the Prophet directly). Ibrahim at-Taimi did not hear anything from Aishah. Abu Dawud said: Al-Firyabi and other narrated this tradition in a like manner.

Narrated Aishah, Ummul Muminin: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ would sleep while he was sexually defiled without touching water. Abu Dawud said: Hasan bin Ali al-Wasiti said that the heard Yazid bin Harun say: This tradition is based on a misunderstanding, i. e. the tradition reported by Abu Ishaq.

Aishah said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ would recline on my lap when I was menstruating, then recite the Quran.

Abdur-Rahman bin Abza said: While I was with Umar, a man came to him and said: We live at a place (where water is not found) for a month or two (what should we do, if we are sexually defiled). Umar said: So far as I am concerned, I do not pray until I find water. Ammar said: Commanded of the faithful, do you not remember when I and you were among the camels (For tending them)? There we became sexually defiled. I rolled down on the ground. We then came to the Prophet ﷺ and I mentioned that to him. He said: It was enough for you to do so. Then he struck the ground with both his hands. He then blew over them and wiped his face and both hands by means of them up to half the arms. Umar said: Ammar, fear Allah. He said: Commander of the faithful, if you want, I will never narrate it. Umar said: Nay, by Allah, we shall turn you from that towards which you turned (i. e. you have your choice).

Narrated Qays ibn Asim: I came to the Prophet ﷺ with the intention of embracing Islam. He commanded me to take a bath with water (boiled with) the leaves of the lote-tree.

Narrated Umm Qays daughter of Mihsan: I asked the Prophet ﷺ about the blood of menstruation on the clothe. He said: Erase it off with a piece of wood and then wash it away with water and the leaves of the lote-tree.

Narrated Abdullah Ibn Abbas: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: Gabriel ﷺ led me in prayer at the House (i. e. the Kabah). He prayed the noon prayer with me when the sun had passed the meridian to the extent of the thong of a sandal; he prayed the afternoon prayer with me when the shadow of everything was as long as itself; he prayed the sunset prayer with me when one who is fasting breaks the fast; he prayed the night prayer with me when the twilight had ended; and he prayed the dawn prayer with me when food and drink become forbidden to one who is keeping the fast. On the following day he prayed the noon prayer with me when his shadow was as long as himself; he prayed the afternoon prayer with me when his shadow was twice as long as himself; he prayed the sunset prayer at the time when one who is fasting breaks the fast; he prayed the night prayer with me when about the third of the night had passed; and he prayed the dawn prayer with me when there was a fair amount of light. Then turning to me he said: Muhammad, this is the time observed by the prophets before you, and the time is anywhere between two times.

Narrated Ubadah ibn as-Samit: After me you will come under rulers who will be detained from saying prayer at its proper time by (their) works until its time has run out, so offer prayer at its proper time. A man asked him: Messenger of Allah, may I offer prayer with them? He replied: Yes, if you wish (to do so). Sufyan (another narrator through a different chain)said: May I offer prayer with them if I get it with them? He said: Yes, if you wish to do so.

Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas: I was not commanded to build high mosques. Ibn Abbas said: You will certainly adorn them as the Jews and Christians did.

Abu Juhaifah reported: I came to the prophet ﷺ at Makkah; he was sitting in a tent made of leather. Then Bilal came out and called to prayer. I looked at his mouth following him this side and that side (i. e., right and left). Later at his Messenger of Allah ﷺ came out clad in a red suit, i. e, wearing the sheets of the Yemen, of the Qatri design. The version narrated by Musa has the word; “I saw Bilal going towards al-Abtah”. He then made a call to prayer. When he reached the words “ come to prayer, come to salvation”. He turned his neck right and left, respectively; he did not turn himself (with his whole body). He then entered (his house) and came out with a lancet. The narrator then reported the rest of the tradition.

Narrated Anas ibn Malik: The supplication made between the adhan and the iqamah is not rejected.

Abu al-Shatha said: we were sitting with Abu Hurairah in the mosque. A man went out of the mosque after the ADHAN for the afternoon prayer had been called. Abu Hurairah said: As regards this (man), he disobeyed Abu al-Qasim, the prophet ﷺ.

Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar: Mujahid reported: I was in the company of Ibn Umar. A person invited the people for the noon or afternoon prayer (after the adhan had been called). He said: Go out with us (from this mosque) because this is an innovation (in religion).

Narrated Ibn Umm Maktum: Messenger of Allah, there are many venomous creatures and wild beasts in Madina (so allow me to pray in my house because I am blind). The Prophet ﷺ said: Do you hear the call, "Come to prayer, " "Come to salvation"? (He said: Yes. ) Then you must come. Abu Dawud said: Al-Qasim al-Jarmi has narrated this tradition from Sufyan in a similar manner. But his version does not contain the words "Then you must come. "

Uthman bin Affan reported the Messenger of Allah (may peace be him) as saying; if anyone says the night prayer in congregation, he is like one who keeps vigil (in prayer) till midnight; and he who says both the night and dawn prayer in congregation is like one who keeps vigil (in prayer) the whole night.

Narrated Yazid ibn al-Aswad: Jabir ibn Yazid ibn al-Aswad reported on the authority of his father: I prayed behind the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. When he finished the prayer, he would turn (his face from the direction of the Kabah).

Narrated Ali ibn Abu Talib: The Prophet ﷺ said: The key of prayer is purification; takbir (saying "Allah is most great") makes (all acts which break prayer) unlawful and taslim (uttering the salutation) makes (all such acts) lawful.

Sahl bin Saad said: I saw the people tying their wrappers over their necks like children due to the narrowness of the wrappers behind the Messenger of Allah ﷺ during prayer. Someone said: Body of women, do not raise your heads until the men raise (their heads).

Narrated AbdulHamid ibn Mahmud: I offered the Friday prayer along with Anas ibn Malik. We were pushed to the pillars (due to the crowd of people). We, therefore, stopped forward and backward. Anas then said: We used to avoid it (setting a row between the pillars) during the time of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.

Abu Masud reported the Messenger of Allah ﷺ as saying: let those of your who are sedate and prudent be near me, then those who are next to them, then those who are next to them.

Narrated Aishah, Ummul Muminin: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: Allah and His angels bless those who are on the right flanks of the rows.

Narrated Abdullah ibn Masud: Alqamah said: Abdullah ibn Masud said: Should I pray in the way the Messenger of Allah ﷺ had performed it? He said: He prayed, raising his hands only once.

This tradition has also been transmitted by Sufyan through a different chain of narrators. This version has: He raised his hands once in the beginning. Some narrated: (raised his hands) once only.

Narrated Abdullah ibn Abu Awfa: A man came to the Prophet ﷺ and said: I cannot memorise anything from the Quran: so teach me something which is sufficient for me. He said: Say Glory be to Allah, and praise be to Allah, and there is no god but Allah, and Allah is most great, and there is no might and no strength but in Allah.: He said: Messenger of Allah, this is for Allah, but what is for me? He said: Say: O Allah have mercy on me, and sustain me, and keep me well, and guide me. When he stood up, he made a sign with his hand (indicating that he had earned a lot). The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: He filed up his hand with virtues.

Abdullah bin Abi Awfa said: When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ raised his head after bowing, he said: Allah listens to him who praises Him. O Allah, our lord, to Thee be the praise in the heavens and in all the earth, and all that it please Thee to create afterwards. Abu Dawud said: Sufyan al-Thawri and Shubah bin al-Hajjaj reported on authority of Ubaid bin al-Hasan: There is no mention of the words “after bowing” in this tradition. Sufyan said: we met al-shaikh Ubaid bin al-Hasan; he did not say the words “bowing” in it. Abu dawud said: Shubah narrated this from Abi ‘Ismah, from al-Amash, on the authority of Ubaid, saying: “after bowing”.

Abu Hurairah reported the Prophet ﷺ as saying: There is no loss in prayer nor in salutation. Ahmad (b. Hanbal) said: This means, I think, that you do not salute nor you are saluted by others. The loss of a man in his prayer is that a man remains doubtful about it when he finishes it.

Abu Hurairah reported the Prophet ﷺ as saying: There is no loss in salutation and in prayer. Abu Dawud said: According to the version of Ibn Mahdi, this tradition has been narrated by Ibn Fudail as a statement of Abu Hurairah and not as a saying of the Prophet ﷺ

Narrated Wail ibn Hujr: When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ recited the verse "Nor of those who go astray" (Surah al-Fatihah, verse 7), he would say Amin; and raised his voice (while uttering this word).

Bilal reported that he said: Messenger of Allah, do not say Amin before me.

It was reported from Ibrahim that he said: "When the Prophet ﷺ would sit in the prayer, he would place his left foot horizontally - so much so that the upper-part of his foot became black. "