Abu Darda' reported: Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) stood up (to pray) and we heard him say: "I seek refuge in Allah from thee." Then said: "curse thee with Allah's curse" three times, then he stretched out his hand as though he was taking hold of something. When he finished the prayer, we said: Messenger of Allah, we heard you say something during the prayer which we have not heard you say before, and we saw you stretch out your hand. He replied: Allah's enemy Iblis came with a flame of fire to put it in my face, so I said three times: "I Seek refuge in Allah from thee." Then I said three times: "I curse thee with Allah's full curse." But he did not retreat (on any one of these) three occasions. Thereafter I meant to seize him. I swear by Allah that had it not been for the supplication of my brother Sulaiman he would have been bound, and made an object of sport for the children of Madinah.

Abu Qatadah (RA) reported: I saw the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) saying the prayer while he was carrying Umama, daughter of Zainab, daughter of the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) . and Abu'l-'As bin al-Rabi'. When he stood up, he took her up and when he prostrated he put her down, Yahya said: Malik replied in the affirmative.

Abu Qatadah (RA) al-Ansari reported: I saw the Apostle ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) leading the people in prayer with Umama, daughter of Abu'l-'As and Zainab, daughter of the Apostle of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) , on his shoulder. When he bowed, he put her down, and when he got up after prostration, he lifted her again.

Abu Qatadah (RA) reported: I saw the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) leading the people in prayer with Umama daughter of Abu'l-'As on his neck; and when he prostrated he put her down.

Abu Qatadah (RA) reported: As we were sitting in the mosque, the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) came to us, and the rest of the hadith is the same except that he made no mention that he led people in this prayer.

Abu Hazim is reported on the authority of his father: Some people came to Sahl bin Sa'd and began to differ about the wood of which the (Prophet's pulpit was made. He (Sahl bin Sa'd) said: By Allah, I know of which wood it is made and who made it, and the day when I saw the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) seated himself on it on the first day. I said to him: O Abu Abbas (kunyah of Sabl bin Sa'd), narrate to us (all these facts), He said: The Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) sent a person to a woman asking her to allow her slave, a carpenter, to work on woods (to prepare a pulpit) so that I should talk to the people (sitting on it). Abu Hazim said: He (Sahl bin Sa'd) pointed out the name of (that lady) that day. So he (the carpenter) made (a pulpit) with these three steps. Then the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) commanded it to be placed here (where it is lying now). It was fashioned out of the wood of al-Ghaba. And I saw the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) (may peace he upon him) standing upon it and glorifying Allah and the people also glorified Allah after him, while he was on the pulpit. He then raised (his head from prostration) and stepped back (on his heels) till he prostrated himself at the base of pulpit, and then returned (to the former place and this movement of one or two steps continued) till the prayer was complete. He then turned towards the people and said: O people, I have done it so that you should follow me and learn (my mode of) prayer.

Narrated to us Qutaybah ibn Sa‘id, narrated to us Ya‘qub ibn ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Abd Allah ibn ‘Abd al-Qari al-Qurashi, narrated to me Abu Hazim, that some men came to Sahl ibn Sa‘d. He said: And narrated to us Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah, and Zuhayr ibn Harb, and Ibn Abi ‘Umar, they said: Narrated to us Sufyan ibn ‘Uyaynah, from Abu Hazim, he said: They came to Sahl ibn Sa‘d and asked him, "From what was the pulpit of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, made?" And they narrated the hadith similar to the hadith of Ibn Abi Hazim.

Abu Hurairah (RA) reported from the Apostle of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) that he forbade keeping one's hand on one's waist while praying, and in the narration of Abu Bakr (RA) (the words are): The Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) forbade to do so.

Mu'aiqib quoted the Apostle of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) mentioning the removal of pebbles from the ground where he prostrated himself. He (the Prophet) said: It you must do so, do it only once.

Mu'aiqib said: They asked the Apostle ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) about the removal of (pebbles) in prayer, whereupon he said: If you do it, do it only once.