Volume 2, Book 17, Number 139:
Narrated Abbas bin Tamim from his uncle who said,
“The Prophet went out to the Musalla to offer the Istisqa’ prayer, faced the Qibla and offered a
two-Rakat prayer and turned his cloak inside out.” Narrated Abu Bakr, “The Prophet put the right
side of his cloak on his left side.”
Volume 2, Book 17, Number 120:
Narrated Abu Huraira;
Whenever the Prophet (p.b.u.h) lifted his head from the bowing in the last Raka he used to say: “O
Allah! Save ‘Aiyash bin Abi Rabi’a. O Allah! Save Salama bin Hisham. O Allah! Save Walid bin Walid.
O Allah! Save the weak faithful believers. O Allah! Be hard on the tribes of Mudar and send (famine)
years on them like the famine years of (Prophet) Joseph .” The Prophet further said, “Allah forgive the
tribes of Ghifar and save the tribes of Aslam.” Abu Az-Zinad (a sub-narrator) said, “The Qunut used
to be recited by the Prophet in the Fajr prayer.”
Volume 2, Book 13, Number 47:
Narrated Abu Hummaid As-Sa’idi
One night Allah’s Apostle (p.b.u.h) stood up after the prayer and recited “Tashah-hud” and then
praised Allah as He deserved and said, “Amma ba’du.”
Volume 1, Book 8, Number 469:
Narrates Ibn Sirin:
Abu Huraira said, “Allah’s Apostle led us in one of the two ‘Isha’ prayers (Abu Huraira named that
prayer but I forgot it).” Abu Huraira added, “He prayed two Rakat and then finished the prayer with
Tasllm. He stood up near a piece of wood Lying across the mosque and leaned on it in such a way as
if he was angry. Then he put his right hand over the left and clasped his hands by interlacing his fin –
gers and then put his J right cheek on the back of his left hand. The people who were in haste left the
mosque through its gates. They wondered whether the prayer was reduced. And amongst them were
Abu Bakr and ‘Umar but they hesitated to ask the Prophet. A long-handed man called Dhul-Yadain
asked the Prophet, ‘O Allah’s Apostle! Have you; forgotten or has the prayer been reduced?’ The
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Prophet replied, ‘I have neither forgotten nor has the prayer been reduced’ The Prophet added, ‘Is
what Dhul Yadain has said true?’ They (the people) said, ‘Yes, it is true.’ The Prophet stood up again
and led the prayer, completing the remaining prayer, forgotten by him, and performed Talsrm, and
then said, ‘Allahu Akbar.’ And then he did a prostration as he used to prostrate or longer than that.
He then raised his head saying, ‘Allahu Akbar; he then again said, ‘Allahu Akbar’, and prostrated as
he used to prostrate or longer than that. Then he raised his head and said, ‘Allahu Akbar.’ ” (The sub –
narrator added, “I think that they asked (Ibn Sirin) whether the Prophet completed the prayer with
Taslim. He replied, “I heard that ‘Imran bin Husain had said, ‘Then he (the Prophet) did Taslim.”)
Volume 1, Book 8, Number 376:
Narrates ‘Abdullah bin Shaddad:
Maimuna said, “Allah’s Apostle was praying while I was in my menses, sitting beside him and
sometimes his clothes would touch me during his prostration.” Maimuna added, “He prayed on a
Khumra (a small mat sufficient just for the face and the hands while prostrating during prayers).