حياة السلف بين القول والعمل

Night prayer: Muslim ibn Yasar, may God have mercy on him, said: If I sleep, then wake up, then go back to sleep, may God not let my eyes sleep. [Ibn Abi al-Dunya Encyclopedia 1/267].

Night Prayer: On the authority of Muhammad ibn Ishaq, he said: Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Aswad, may God have mercy on him, came to us on pilgrimage, and one of his feet became injured, so he stood praying until morning, standing on one foot. He said: So he prayed Fajr with the ablution he had performed for Isha. He said: And Layth ibn Abi Sulaym, may God have mercy on him, came to us and did the same. [Ibn Abi al-Dunya Encyclopedia 1/267].

Night Prayer: On the authority of Sufyan, he said: Qays ibn Muslim visited Muhammad ibn Juhadah, may God have mercy on him, one night. He said: He came to him while he was in the mosque after the Isha prayer. He said: Muhammad was standing praying. He said: So Qays ibn Muslim stood in the other corner to pray, and they continued like that until dawn. He said: Qays ibn Muslim was the imam of his mosque. He said: So he returned to the neighborhood and led them in prayer, and they did not meet, and Muhammad did not know he was there. He said: So the people of the mosque said to him: Your brother Qays ibn Muslim visited you last night, and you did not turn to him. He said: I did not know he was there. He said: So he went to him the next morning, and when Qays ibn Muslim saw him coming, he stood up to him and embraced him, and then they both sat down and began to weep. [Ibn Abi al-Dunya Encyclopedia 1/268].

Night Prayer: When night came, Mansur ibn al-Mu’tamir, may God have mercy on him, would wrap himself in a loincloth if it was summer, and if it was winter he would wrap himself in a blanket over his clothes, then he would stand in his prayer niche as if he were a wooden post erected until morning. [Ibn Abi al-Dunya Encyclopedia 1/271].

Night prayer: Thabit al-Banani, may God have mercy on him, used to pray three hundred rak’ahs every night. When morning came, his feet would swell, so he would take them in his hand and squeeze them, then he would say: The worshippers have passed on and I have been left behind, and woe is me. [Ibn Abi al-Dunya Encyclopedia 1/276].