Volume 1, Book 11, Number 691:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
I arrived at Medina and was asked whether I found any change since the days of Allah’s Apostle. I
said, “I have not found any change except that you do not stand in alignment in your prayers.”

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 676:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
I never prayed behind any Imam a prayer lighter and more perfect than that behind the Prophet
and he used to cut short the prayer whenever he heard the cries of a child lest he should put the
child’s mother to trial.
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Volume 1, Book 11, Number 677:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
The Prophet said, “When I start the prayer I intend to prolong it, but on hearing the cries of a
child, I cut short the prayer because I know that the cries of the child will incite its mother’s pas –
sions.”

Volume 1, Book 11, Number 678:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
The Prophet, said, “Whenever I start the prayer I intend to prolong it, but on hearing the cries of a
child, I cut short the prayer because I know that the cries of the child will incite its mother’s pas –
sions.”

Volume 1, Book 11, Number 664:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
The Prophet said to Abu-Dhar, “Listen and obey (your chief) even if he is an Ethiopian with a head
like a raisin.”

Volume 1, Book 11, Number 657:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
Once Allah’s Apostle rode a horse and fell down and the right side (of his body) was injured. He
offered one of the prayers while sitting and we also prayed behind him sitting. When he completed
the prayer, he said, “The Imam is to be followed. Pray standing if he prays standing and bow when he
bows; rise when he rises; and if he says, ‘Sami a-l-lahu-liman hamida, say then, ‘Rabbana wa Lakal-
hamd’ and pray standing if he prays standing and pray sitting (all of you) if he prays sitting.”
Humaid said: The saying of the Prophet “Pray sitting, if he (Imam) prays sitting” was said in his
former illness (during his early life) but the Prophet prayed sitting afterwards (in the last illness) and
the people were praying standing behind him and the Prophet did not order them to sit. We should
follow the latest actions of the Prophet.

Volume 1, Book 11, Number 641:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
Allah’s Apostle said, “If the supper is served start having it before praying the Maghrib prayer and
do not be hasty in finishing it.”
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