‘Abdallah b. Mas'ud said that in the first two rak'as the Prophet (ﷺ) was as though he were on heated stones till he got up.*
*A figurative phrase to express the shortening of the sitting during the tashahhud.
Tirmidhi, Abu Dawud and Nasa’i transmitted it.
Wa’il b. Hujr said concerning God’s Messenger, “Then he sat, stretched out his left foot [to sit on it], placed his left hand on his left thigh, put the tip of his right elbow on his right thigh, joined two fingers, 1 fo…
وَعَن عبد الله بن الزبير قَالَ: كَانَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يُشِيرُ بِأُصْبُعِهِ إِذَا دَعَا وَلَا يُحَرِّكُهَا. رَوَاهُ أَبُو دَاوُدَ وَالنَّسَائِيّ وَزَاد أَبُو دَاوُد وَلَا يُجَاوز بَصَره إِشَارَته
‘Abdallah b. az-Zubair said that the Prophet (ﷺ) used to point with his finger when he made supplication, but did not move it.
Abu Dawud and Nasa’i transmitted it, Abu Dawud adding that he kept his look fixed on the fi…
Abu Huraira told how when a man was making supplication using two of his fingers, God’s Messenger said, “Use one, use one.”
It is transmitted by Tirmidhi and Nasa’i and by Baihaqi in [Kitab] ad-da'awat al kabir.
Ibn ‘Umar said God’s Messenger forbade that a man should sit during prayer leaning on his hand.
Ahmad and Abu Dawud transmitted it, and in a version by Abu Dawud it says he forbade that a man should lean on his hands whe…