Hadith 697 - CHAPTER: The Command To The One Who Is Praying To Block Others From Crossing In Front Of Him. - Prayer (kitab al-salat) - Sunnan Abu Dawood in Arabic with Urdu and English Translation

Abu Sa'id al-Khudri reported that the Messenger of Allah ( ‌صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم ‌ ) said: When any one of you prays he should not let anyone pass in front of him (if there is no sutra), and should try to turn him away as far as possible, but if he refuses to go, he should turn him away forcibly for he is a devil.

Narrated Abu Saeed Al Khudri: The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم used to spend the middle ten days of Ramadan in retirement and devotion (Itikaf) in the mosque. One year he had retirement and devotion in the mosque (as usual); when the twenty-first night came, and this night when he used to come out his devotion in the mosque, he said: He who has engaged himself in devotion along with me should do so during the last ten days; I saw that night, that was caused to forget it, but I have seen myself prostrating in water and mud on the morning following (that night), so seek it in the last ten days and seek it every night with an odd number. Abu Saeed said: Rain fell that night, the mosque that was thatched building dripped, and my eyes saw the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم with the traces of water and mud, on his forehead on the morning following the twenty-first night.

Abu Saeed al-Khudri said: A man heard another man reciting Say, He is Allah, One He was repeating it. When the next morning came, he went to the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم and mentioned to him. The man tool it (this surah) as a small one. The Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم said: By Him in Whose Hand is my life, it is equivalent to a third of the Quran.

Narrated Abu Saeed al-Khudri: I heard the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم as saying: The best places to sit are those which provide most room. Abu Dawud said: The name of Abdur-Rahman bin Abi Amr is Abdur-Rahman bin Amr bin Abi 'Umrat al-Ansari.

It was narrated from Abu Sa'eed Al-Khudri that: he was praying and a son a Marwan wanted to pass in front of him. He tried to stop him but he did not go back, so he hit him. The boy went the boy went out crying and went to Marwan and told him (what had happened). Marwan said to Abu Sa'eed: Why did you hit your brother's son? He said: I did not hit him, rater I hit the Saitan. I heard the Messenger of Allah say: 'If one of you is praying and someone wants to pass in front of him, let him troy to stop him as much as he can, and if he persists then let him fight him, for he is a devil.

Abu Bakr b. 'Abd al-Rahman reported that when Allah's Messenger ( ‌صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم ‌ ) married Umm Salama and he visited her, and when he intended to come out, she caught hold of his cloth. whereupon Allah's Messenger ( ‌صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم ‌ ) said: If you so desire, I can extend the time (of my stay) with you, but then I shall have to calculate the time (that I stay with you and shall have to spend the same time with other wives). For the virgin woman, (her husband has to stay with her) for a week, and for the woman previously married it is three days.

Sumayy, the freed slave of Abu Bakr, says that al-Qa'qa and Zaid bin Aslam sent him to Saeed bin al-Musayyab to ask him as to how the woman who has flow of blood should wash. He replied: She should wash at the time of the Zuhr prayer (the bath will be valid one Zuhr prayer to the next Zuhr prayer); and should perform ablution for every prayer. If there is excessive bleed gin, she should tie a cloth over her private part. Abu Dawud said: It has been narrated by Ibn Umar and Anas bin Malik that she should take bath at the time of the Zuhr prayer (being valid) until the next Zuhr prayer. This tradition has also been transmuted by Dawud and Asim from al-Shabi from his wife from Qumair on the authority of Aishah, except that the version of Dawud has the words: every day, and the version of Asim has the words: at the time of Zuhr prayer . This is the view of Salim bin Abdullah, al-Hassan, and Ata. Abu Dawud said: Malik said: I think that the tradition narrated by Ibn a;-Musayyab must contain the words: from one purification to another . But it was misunderstood and the people changed it to: for one Zuhr prayer to another . It has also been reported by Miswar bin Abd al-Malik bin Saeed bin Abdur-Rahman bin Yarbu, saying: from one purification to another, but the people changed it to: from one zuhr to another.

Ala bin Abdur-Rahman said: We came upon Anas bin Malik after the Zuhr prayer. He stood for saying the Asr prayer. When he became free from praying, we mentioned to him about observing prayer in its early period or he himself mentioned it. He said: I heard the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم say: This is how hypocrites pray, this is how hypocrites pray, this is how hypocrites pray: He sits (watching the sun), and when it becomes yellow and is between the horns of the devil, or is on the horns of the devil, he rises and prays for rak'ahs quickly, remembering Allah only seldom during them.

Aishah reported: The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم would say the Fajr prayer after which the women would depart wrapped up their woolen garments, being unrecognizable because of the darkness before dawn.