Azraq bin Qais says: Sayyiduna Abu Barzah Aslami (may Allah be pleased with him) was at the place of Ahwaz on the bank of a river. He took the reins of his mount in his hand and started the prayer. Meanwhile, the mount began to move backward and he also started moving backward with it. A Khariji man saw this scene and said: O Allah! Humiliate this old man, how is he performing the prayer? When he finished the prayer, he said: I have heard what you said. (The reality is that) I have participated in six or seven or eight expeditions with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). I have observed his dealings and his leniency, (from which I have deduced that) my moving backward with the mount during the prayer is lighter than if I had left it and it had gone towards its pasture, and that would have caused me hardship. Sayyiduna Abu Barzah (may Allah be pleased with him) had performed two rak‘ahs of the ‘Asr prayer.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) would glance to the right and left during prayer, but he would not turn his neck towards his back.

A student of Ikrimah narrates that Hazrat Ikrimah (may Allah have mercy on him) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to look here and there in prayer without turning his neck.

Anas bin Sirin (may Allah have mercy on him) says: I saw Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) raise his gaze towards something while he was in prayer, and he would look at it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Qatadah (may Allah be pleased with him), he says: Once we were sitting in the mosque when the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) came to us carrying Sayyidah Umamah bint Abi Al-As bin Rabi’ah. She was a little girl and her mother, Sayyidah Zainab (may Allah be pleased with her), was the daughter of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). He had her lifted on his shoulder. Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) performed prayer while the girl was on his shoulder. When he would bow (ruku’), he would put her down, and when he stood up, he would lift her onto his shoulder again. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) performed the prayer in this manner, with her on his shoulder, until the prayer was completed. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) continued to do this (placing her down at every bowing).

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Qatadah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) performed prayer in such a state that Sayyida Umamah bint Zainab bint Nabi Kareem (may Allah be pleased with her) was on his neck, and she was the daughter of Abu al-As bin Rabi’. When he would bow (ruku’), he would put her down, and when he would stand up after prostration (sajdah), he would lift her onto his neck again. ‘Amir says: I did not ask ‘Amr bin Salim which prayer it was. Ibn Jurayj says: I was informed by Zayd bin Abi ‘Atab that it was the Fajr prayer. Abu ‘Abd al-Rahman said: Ibn Jurayj considered the narration mentioning (the Fajr prayer) to be sound.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Shaddad (may Allah be pleased with him), he says: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) came to us in the mosque for the Zuhr or Asr prayer in the latter part of the day, while he (peace and blessings be upon him) was carrying Sayyiduna Hasan or Sayyiduna Husayn. He (peace and blessings be upon him) moved forward, set him down, and pronounced the takbir for prayer and began to pray. In between, he performed a long prostration. When I raised my head to see (the reason), suddenly that same child was on the back of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) while he (peace and blessings be upon him) was in the state of prostration, so I returned to my own prostration. When the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) completed the prayer, the people said: O Messenger of Allah! You made one prostration during the prayer so long that we thought some matter had occurred or revelation was being sent down to you. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: It was nothing like that; rather, this son of mine had mounted upon me, and I disliked hurrying him, until he had fulfilled his wish.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik, may Allah be pleased with him, that the Noble Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him and his family, prayed in a striped Yemeni sheet. I think that he, peace and blessings be upon him and his family, had tied a knot between its two ends.

It is also narrated from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him), he says that the last prayer which the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) performed with the people, following Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him), was in a single garment, with which he (peace and blessings be upon him) had made a stripe.

Ibrahim bin Abu Rabiah says: We entered upon Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) and he was praying wrapped in a single cloth, while his sheet was placed separately. I said: Do you pray in a single cloth? He said: Indeed, I saw the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) praying in this manner.