It is narrated from Malik bin Abi Amir Asbahi that I was with Sayyiduna Uthman bin Affan (may Allah be pleased with him), when the call for prayer (takbeer) was made, and I continued talking to him, because I wanted him to assign me some stipend, and he was straightening pebbles with his shoes, until those people arrived who were appointed to straighten the rows, and they informed him that the rows had been straightened. Then he said to me: Join the row, and then he said the takbeer.