This tradition has also been transmitted through a chain by Bakr bin Abdullah. This version has the word Khubuth (filth) and in two places the word Khubuthan (filth).

Narrated Aws ibn Thabit al-Ansari: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: Act differently from the Jews, for they do not pray in their sandals or their shoes.

Narrated Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-As: I saw the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم praying both barefooted and wearing sandals.

Narrated Abu Hurairah: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: When any of you prays, he should not place his sandals on his right side or on his left so as to be on the right side of someone else, unless no one is at his left, but should place them between his feet.

Abu Hurairah reported the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم as saying: when any of you prays and takes off his sandals, he should not harm anyone by them. He should place them between his feet or pray with them on

Maimunah bint al-Harith reported: the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم used to pray while. I was by his side in the state of menstruation. Sometime his cloth would touch me when he prostrated. He would pray on a small mat.

Anas bin Malik reported: A man from the Ansar said: I am a corpulent man-and he was (actually) a fat man; I cannot pray along with you. He prepared food for him and invited him to his house. (he said) (please) pray (here) so that I may see how you pray, and then I would follow you. They (the people) washed one side of their mat. He (the prophet) then got up and prayed two Rak’ahs. Ibn al-Jarud asked Anas bin Malik: would he (the prophet) say the forenoon prayer? He replied: I did not see him offering this prayer except that day.

Anas bin Malik said; the prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم used to visit Umm Sulaim. Sometimes the time for prayer would come and he would pray on out carpet that was really a mat. She (Umm Sulaim) used to wash it with water.

Narrated Al-Mughirah ibn Shubah: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم used to pray on a mat and on a tanned skin.

Anas bin Malik said: we used to pray along with the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم in intense heat. When any of us could not rest his face on bare ground while prostrating due to intense heat he spread his cloth and would prostrate on it.