Volume 1, Book 11, Number 693:
Narrated Ibn ‘Abbas:
I prayed with the Prophet one night and stood on his left side. Allah’s Apostle caught hold of my
head from behind and drew me to his right and then offered the prayer and slept. Later the Mu’adh-
dhin came and the Prophet stood up for prayer without performing ablution.
Volume 1, Book 11, Number 694:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
One night an orphan and I offered the prayers behind the Prophet in my house and my mother
(Um Sulaim) was standing behind us (by herself forming a row).
Volume 1, Book 11, Number 695:
Narrated Ibn ‘Abbas:
One night I stood to the left of the Prophet in the prayer but he caught hold of me by the hand or
by the shoulder (arm) till he made me stand on his right and beckoned with his hand (for me) to go
from behind (him). (Al-Kashmaihani-Fateh al-Bari).
Volume 1, Book 11, Number 696:
Narrated ‘Aisha:
Allah’s Apostle used to pray in his room at night. As the wall of the room was LOW, the people saw
him and some of them stood up to follow him in the prayer. In the morning they spread the news.
The following night the Prophet stood for the prayer and the people followed him. This went on for
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two or three nights. Thereupon Allah’s Apostle did not stand for the prayer the following night, and
did not come out. In the morning, the people asked him about it. He replied, that he way afraid that
the night prayer might become compulsory.
Volume 1, Book 11, Number 697:
Narrated ‘Aisha:
The Prophet had a mat which he used to spread during the day and use as a curtain at night. So a
number of people gathered at night facing it and prayed behind him.
Volume 1, Book 11, Number 698:
Narrated Zaid bin Thabit:
Allah’s Apostle made a small room in the month of Ramadan (Sa’id said, “I think that Zaid bin
Thabit said that it was made of a mat”) and he prayed there for a few nights, and so some of his com –
panions prayed behind him. When he came to know about it, he kept on sitting. In the morning, he
went out to them and said, “I have seen and understood what you did. You should pray in your
houses, for the best prayer of a person is that which he prays in his house except the compulsory
prayers.”
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Book 12: Characteristics of Prayer
Volume 1, Book 11, Number 692:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
The Prophet said, “Straighten your rows for I see you from behind my back.” Anas added, “Every –
one of us used to put his shoulder with the shoulder of his companion and his foot with the foot of
his companion.”
Volume 1, Book 11, Number 683:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet prayed two Rakat of Zuhr prayer (instead of four) and he was told that he had prayed
two Rakat only. Then he prayed two more Rakat and finished them with the Taslim followed by two
prostrations.