Why prostration in prayer must be done on
earth
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Proofs From Sunni Sources
Abu Said Al Khudri
narrates:
The Messenger of Allah used to
practice Itikaf (in the mosque), in the middle third of Ramadan.
After the twentieth night, he used to return home on the twenty-first,
and those who were in Itikaf with him would return to their homes
as well. In Ramadan, in which he practiced Itikaf, he would pray
the night prayers on the night in which he returned home, and
then address the people, instructing them as Allah commanded
him. He said, "I used to practice Itikaf for these ten days
(i.e. the middle third of Ramadan), but I now intend to stay
in Itikaf for the last ten days. Whoever was in Itikaf with me
should stay at his place of seclusion. I have certainly been
shown (the date of) this Night (of Qadr), but I have forgotten
it. Search for it in the odd nights of the last ten days (of
Ramadan). I also saw myself (in a dream) prostrating
in mud and water."
On the twenty-first night, the sky was covered with clouds and
it rained, and the rainwater started leaking through the roof of
the mosque onto the praying place of the Prophet. With my own eyes, I
saw the Prophet, upon completion of the morning prayer, leaving
(the mosque) with his face covered with mud and water.
Sahih Al-Bukhari
Hadith 3.235
Abu Hazim narrates:
Sahl bin Sa'd was asked about the
(Prophet's) pulpit, as to what was it made of. Sahl replied:
No one is still alive among the people who knows about it better
than I. It was made of tamarisk forest wood. So and so, the slave
of so and so, prepared it for the Messenger of Allah. When it
was constructed and placed (in the mosque), the Messenger of
Allah stood on it, facing the Qibla, and said, "Allahu Akbar",
and the people stood behind him (in prayer). He recited and bowed,
and the people behind him bowed. Then he raised his head, stepped
back, descended and prostrated on the ground. He
then again ascended the pulpit, recited, bowed, raised his head,
stepped back, descended and prostrated on the ground. This
is what I know about the pulpit.
Sahih Al-Bukhari
Hadith 1.374
Hazrat Maimuna said:
The Messenger of Allah used to pray
on a Khumra (a palm leaf mat large enough to place
one's face, while in prostration).
Sahih Al-Bukhari
Hadith 1.378
Jabir bin Abdullah
narrates:
The Messenger of Allah said: I
have been given five things which were not given to any of the
Prophets before me. These are:
1. Allah made me victorious by
inspiring awe (and fear in my enemies) for a distance of one
month's journey.
2. The earth has been made
a place of prostration for me, and a place to perform
Tayammum. Thus, my followers can pray wherever (i.e. in any
lawful place) they like, when the time of prayer is due.
3. War booty has been made lawful
for me.
4. Every Prophet was sent only
to his own nation, but I have been sent to all mankind.
5. I have been given the right
of intercession (on the Day of Resurrection).
Sahih Al-Bukhari
Hadith 1.429
Abu Sa'eed used to relate that
he had seen the Prophet prostrating on wet mud, so
much so that he could see mud stains on his forehead.
Saheeh Bukhari, Part I, p. 104
Hazrat Maimuna said:
The Messenger of Allah was once
praying while I was experiencing my menses and sitting beside
him. Sometimes his clothing would touch me during his prostration.
She added: He prayed on a Khumra (a small palm
leaf mat).
Saheeh Bukhari, Volume
1, Book 8, Number 376
The Prophet used to place
his forehead on the earth while prostrating.
Saheeh Bukhari, Part
1, p. 97
The Prophet declared that the best
place for prostration was the earth, or upon
something that grows from the earth.
Kanz-ul-Ummal, Part
4., p. 113
(Famous Sunni book of Hadith)
The Prophet said to his wife Umm
Salma,
" Bring me the Khumra from the mosque." The word
Khumra means a small piece of chatai made from palm leaf,
on which only the head could be rested when prostrating. lbn-Athir,
in his Jami-al-Usool has written, "Khumra is the Sajdagah
(Persian word meaning "prostration place") upon which
the Shias of our time perform their prostrations."
I (i.e. Maulana Zamankhan) maintain
that by this Hadith it is Sunnat to keep a Sajdagah. Those who
forbid it and call it the way of the Rafizites (Shiites) are
wrong. To practice this Sunnat, I often perform my prostrations
on a fan made from palm leaf, and I do not care about the criticism
of the ignorant. We are concerned only with the Sunnat of the
Prophet (SAA), regardless of whether they call it the way of
the Rafizites or the Kharijites. Let them rave about it.
Maulana Vahidul Zamankhan
(Sunni Alim),
author of
'Anwar-ul-Lughat', Chap. 7, p. 118
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