Abu Hurairah reported the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم as saying: when one of you prostrates himself, he should not stretch out his forearms (on the ground) like a dog and he should join both of his thighs.

Narrated Abu Hurairah: The Companions of the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم complained to the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم about the hardship when they kept their forearms far away from their sides while prostrating. He said: Take help with the elbows (by spreading them on the ground and sticking them to the sides).

Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar: Saeed ibn Ziyad ibn Subayh al-Hanafi said: I prayed by the side of Ibn Umar and I put my hands on my waist. When he finished his prayer, He said: This is a cross in prayer; the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم used to forbid it.

Narrated Abdullah ibn ash-Shikhkhir: I saw the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم praying and a sound came from his breast like the rumbling of a mill owing to weeping.

Zaid bin Khalid al-Juhani reported the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم as saying: Anyone who performs ablution and performs his ablution well, and then he offers two rak’ahs of prayers in a way that he does not forget (anything in it), will be forgiven all his past sins.

Uqbah. B Amir al-Juhani reported the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم as saying: Any one performs ablution and performs the ablution perfectly and then offers two rak’ahs of prayers concentrating on them with his heart and face but paradise will necessarily fall to his lot.

Narrated Al-Miswar ibn Yazid al-Maliki: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم recited - Yahya (sub narrator) said: Sometimes al-Miswar said: I prayed along with the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم and witnessed that he recited - the Quran during the prayer and omitted something (i. e. some verses inadvertently) which he did not recite. A man said to him: Messenger of Allah, you omitted such-and-such verse. The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: Why did you not remind me of it? The narrator Sulayman said in his version: He (the man) said: I thought that it (the verse) was repealed.

Narrated Ali ibn Abu Talib: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: Ali, do not instruct the imam during the prayer. Abu Dawud said: The narrator Abu Ishaq heard only for traditions from al-Harith, this tradition is not one of them.

Narrated Abu Dharr: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: Allah, the Most High, continues to turn favourably towards a servant while he is engaged in prayer as long as he does not look to the side (by turning the neck), but if he does so, He turns away from him.

Aishah said: I asked the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم about looking to the sides during prayer. He said: It is something which the devil snatches from a servant’s prayers.