How Did Imam Ali Pray? (based on hadiths)

[lotfilms]

(wasalam) (bismillah)

Basically, we all know that the prayer of Imam Ali is the same as the prayer of the Prophet(PBUH) based on the hadith from Abu Musa when he reportedly said "he (referring to the 4th Caliph) reminds us of how the Prophet used to pray"

now, there are a lot of misconceptions of how the Prophet(PBUH) prayed. It doesn't help that the Ummayids fabricated hadiths to justify their ill-knowledge of prayer, so I ask you all....

How exactly did Imam Ali pray?

Including the positions of his hands, any supplications he may have made before surah fatiha, etc

I would really appreciate it and I hope to be on this site for a long time

was salam

Edited December 18, 2008 by lotfilms

[lotfilms]

anyone?

:unsure:

[Seyed.Haider.Hussain]

Brother i am looking for the same answer, I wanted to know if imam Jafer had a book on how to pray like the prophet Mohammed SAW and also where did the teachings of Shia come from where did imam Jafer Al Sadiq teach this,

[Replicant]

Brother i am looking for the same answer, I wanted to know if imam Jafer had a book on how to pray like the prophet Mohammed SAW and also where did the teachings of Shia come from where did imam Jafer Al Sadiq teach this,

(salam)

We believe the knowledge of the Prophet (pbuh) was inherited by the Imams (as).

[Ali_Hussain]

Brother i am looking for the same answer, I wanted to know if imam Jafer had a book on how to pray like the prophet Mohammed SAW and also where did the teachings of Shia come from where did imam Jafer Al Sadiq teach this,

(salam)

This hadith helped me with my prayer more than any resalah or guide book

1 – Muhammad b. `Ali b. al Husain (Shaykh al Saduq in al-Faqih) with his chains from Hammad b. `Isa, that he said: Abu `Abdillah (as) said to me one day: Do you know how to pray, O Hammad? He said: I said: O my master! I comply with the Book of Hariz about prayer (therein is an account of Hariz for the preservation (?) of the Book and his narration and that is only for acting upon it, and the statements about that and its examples are more than can be enumerated, and parts of that will appear in the Book of Judgment etcetera – from it, certain differences (?) in the margin of the manuscript). He said: So he (as) said: Worry not! Stand and pray. He said: So I stood in front of him, facing the Qiblah. Then I commenced the prayer and I bowed and I prostrated. So he (as) said: O Hammad! You do not know how to pray. How repulsive is it for a man (in the copy of al Kafi: بالرجل منكم – for a man among you) to have had sixty years or seventy years pass him by, and he has not established a single prayer with all its limits?! Hammad said: So abasement befell me within and I said: May I be sacrificed for you! Please teach me the prayer. So Abu `Abdillah (as) stood facing the Qiblah, erect. Then he placed both his hands together on his thighs, his fingers joined together and he drew his feet near until they were three digits apart. And he turned, with all the toes of his feet together (in al Tahdheeb: جميعاً القبلة – in the margin of the manuscript), neither of his feet deflected from the Qiblah, with submissiveness and complete surrender (tranquility), and said: Allah is Greater (Allaahu Akbar)! Then he recited Surat al Hamd and Qul Huwa Allahu Ahad (Surat al Ikhlas) with the intonation (tarteel). Then he paused a little for a measure of one breath while he was standing. Then (in the Masdar, extra: رفع يديه حيال وجهه و- he raised his hands opposite his face and) he said: Allah is Greater (Allaahu Akbar), while he was standing. Then he bowed and spread his palms over the knees and pushed his knees backwards until his back was straight; were a drop of water or fat to be poured on him, it would not slide down due to the straightening of his back and the pushing (in the Masdar and the copy, in the margin of the manuscript: ورد) back of his knees, and he erected his neck (in the margin of the Asl: ومد في عنقه – and he stretched his neck) and looked down. Then he glorified thrice with tarteel and said: Allah listens to the one who praises Him (Sami`allaahu liman Hamidah). Then he recited the takbeer while he was standing and raised his hands opposite his face. And he prostrated and placed his hands on the ground prior to his knees and said: Purified (glorified) is my Lord, the Most High, and I praise Him (SubHaana rabbiya 'l-a`laa wa biHamdih), thrice, and he did not place (i.e. rest) anything (any part) of his body against anything from it. And he prostrated upon eight major (parts): the forehead and the palms and the kneecaps and the tips of the big toes of the feet and the nose; then these are seven, plenty (viz. seven are required). And the positioning of the nose over the earth is recommended. And it is (out of) compulsion (i.e., the nose is forced to rub the ground when the forehead is on the ground). Then he raised his head from prostration and when he was seated, he said: Allaahu Akbar! Then he sat on his left side and he placed the outside of his right foot over the inside of his left foot, and said: I seek forgiveness of Allah, my Lord and I turn towards (repent unto) Him (Astaghfirullaaha Rabbee wa atoobu ilayh). Then he recited the takbeer while he was seated and he prostrated a second time and said what he had said in the first and he did not resort to anything from his body against another from it either in the ruku` or the sujud, and he was winged (i.e., the placement of his hands appeared as if there were wings on either side) and he did not place his arms on the ground. Then he prayed the second rak`ah similarly, then said: O Hammad! Pray this way. And do not turn, nor play with your hands or your fingers and do not spit from your right nor (in the copy: ولا عن – nor from – in the margin of the manuscript) your left nor in front of you.

http://www.*******.org/hadiths/salat/acts-of-salat/method-and-etiquettes

Edited August 3, 2011 by ShahHussain

[Seyed.Haider.Hussain]

ok great, now can anyone name imam jaffer's hadith or the one with how he prayed thank you

[Abu Tufayl]

(bismillah)

ok great, now can anyone name imam jaffer's hadith or the one with how he prayed thank you

http://www.*******.org/hadiths/salat/acts-of-salat/method-and-etiquettes

Here can find the ahadeeth of our Imam Ja`far as-Sadiq [as] taught to pray - this is how the Holy Prophet (pbuh) prayed.

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[Seyed.Haider.Hussain]

(bismillah)

http://www.tashayyu....-and-etiquettes

Here can find the ahadeeth of our Imam Ja`far as-Sadiq [as] taught to pray - this is how the Holy Prophet (pbuh) prayed.

في أمان الله

Thank you Akhi, thats great

[mouradf]

He was very focused in prayer

[Seyed.Haider.Hussain]

If anyone is a Shia I ask to give a response to this

Khasal , Shaikh Saduq, p. 414 (Urdu translation : published by Al Kisa publishers, Karachi , Pakistan)

Hasan ibn Rashid narrated from Abu Basir and Muhammad ibn Muslim who narrated from Imam Jafar who narrated from his father Imam Baqir who narrated from Zainul Abideen who narrated from his forefathers that Amir ul Momineen taught four hundred lessons to the Muslims in a single sitting for the welfare of their world and here after.