Volume 1, Book 12, Number 791:
Narrated Muhammad bin ‘Amr bin ‘Ata’:
I was sitting with some of the companions of Allah’s Apostle and we were discussing about the
way of praying of the Prophet. Abu Humaid As-Saidi said, “I remember the prayer of Allah’s Apostle
better than any one of you. I saw him raising both his hands up to the level of the shoulders on say –
ing the Takbir; and on bowing he placed his hands on both knees and bent his back straight, then he
stood up straight from bowing till all the vertebrate took their normal positions. In prostrations, he
placed both his hands on the ground with the forearms away from the ground and away from his
body, and his toes were facing the Qibla. On sitting In the second Rak’a he sat on his left foot and
propped up the right one; and in the last Rak’a he pushed his left foot forward and kept the other
foot propped up and sat over the buttocks “
Volume 1, Book 12, Number 792:
Narrated ‘Abdullah bin Buhaina:
(he was from the tribe of Uzd Shan’u’a and was the ally of the tribe of ‘Abdul-Manaf and was one
of the companions of the Prophet): Once the Prophet led us in the Zuhr prayer and stood up after the
second Rak’a and did not sit down. The people stood up with him. When the prayer was about to end
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and the people were waiting for him to say the Taslim, he said Takbir while sitting and prostrated
twice before saying the Taslim and then he said the Taslim.”
Volume 1, Book 12, Number 783:
Narrated Al-Bara’:
The time taken by the Prophet in prostrations, bowing, and the sitting interval between the two
prostrations was about the same.
Volume 1, Book 12, Number 784:
Narrated Thabit:
Anas said, “I will leave no stone unturned in making you offer the prayer as I have seen the Proph –
et making us offer it.” Anas used to do a thing which I have not seen you doing. He used to stand
after the bowing for such a long time that one would think that he had forgotten (the prostrations)
and he used to sit in-between the prostrations so long that one would think that he had forgotten the
second prostration.
Volume 1, Book 12, Number 785:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
The Prophet said, “Be straight in the prostrations and none of you should put his forearms on the
ground (in the prostration) like a dog.”
Volume 1, Book 12, Number 786:
Narrated Malik bin Huwairith Al-Laithi:
I saw the Prophet praying and in the odd Rakat, he used to sit for a moment before getting up.
Volume 1, Book 12, Number 787:
Narrated Aiyub:
Abu Qilaba said, “Malik bin Huwairith came to us and led us in the prayer in this mosque of ours
and said, ‘I lead you in prayer but I do not want to offer the prayer but just to show you how Allah’s
Apostle performed his prayers.” I asked Abu Qilaba, “How was the prayer of Malik bin Huwairith?”
He replied, “Like the prayer of this Sheikh of ours– i.e. ‘Amr bin Salima.” That Sheikh used to pro –
nounce the Takbir perfectly and when he raised his head from the second prostration he would sit
for a while and then support himself on the ground and get up.
Volume 1, Book 12, Number 788:
Narrated Said bin Al-Harith:
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Abu Said led us in the prayer and said the Takbir aloud on arising from the prostration, and on
prostrating, on rising again, and on getting up from the second Rak’a. Abu Said said, “I saw the
Prophet doing the same.”