4. Prayer During Travel

٤۔ كتاب صلاة السفر

4.8 Praying Voluntary Prayers And Witr While Riding A Mount

٤۔٨ باب التَّطَوُّعِ عَلَى الرَّاحِلَةِ وَالْوِتْرِ

abudawud:1224Aḥmad b. Ṣāliḥ > Ibn Wahb > Yūnus > Ibn Shihāb > Sālim from his father

While travelling the Messenger of Allah ﷺ would pray voluntary prayer on his riding beast in whatever direction it turned; and he would observe witr prayer, but he did not offer the obligatory prayers upon it.  

أبو داود:١٢٢٤حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ صَالِحٍ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ وَهْبٍ أَخْبَرَنِي يُونُسُ عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ عَنْ سَالِمٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ يُسَبِّحُ عَلَى الرَّاحِلَةِ أَىَّ وَجْهٍ تَوَجَّهَ وَيُوتِرُ عَلَيْهَا غَيْرَ أَنَّهُ لاَ يُصَلِّي الْمَكْتُوبَةَ عَلَيْهَا  

abudawud:1225Musaddad > Ribʿī b. ʿAbdullāh b. al-a neighborūd > ʿAmr b. Abū al-Ḥajjāj > al-a neighborūd b. Abū Sabrah > Anas b. Mālik

When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was on a journey and wished to say voluntary prayer, he made his she-camel face the qiblah and uttered the takbir (Allah is most great), then prayed in whatever direction his mount made his face.  

أبو داود:١٢٢٥حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ حَدَّثَنَا رِبْعِيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الْجَارُودِ حَدَّثَنِي عَمْرُو بْنُ أَبِي الْحَجَّاجِ حَدَّثَنِي الْجَارُودُ بْنُ أَبِي سَبْرَةَ حَدَّثَنِي أَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ كَانَ إِذَا سَافَرَ فَأَرَادَ أَنْ يَتَطَوَّعَ اسْتَقْبَلَ بِنَاقَتِهِ الْقِبْلَةَ فَكَبَّرَ ثُمَّ صَلَّى حَيْثُ وَجَّهَهُ رِكَابُهُ  

abudawud:1226al-Qaʿnabī > Mālik > ʿAmr b. Yaḥyá al-Māzinī > Abū al-Ḥubāb Saʿīd b. Yasār > ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar

I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ praying on a donkey while he was facing Khaibar.  

أبو داود:١٢٢٦حَدَّثَنَا الْقَعْنَبِيُّ عَنْ مَالِكٍ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ يَحْيَى الْمَازِنِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي الْحُبَابِ سَعِيدِ بْنِ يَسَارٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ

أَنَّهُ قَالَ رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يُصَلِّي عَلَى حِمَارٍ وَهُوَ مُتَوَجِّهٌ إِلَى خَيْبَرَ  

abudawud:1227ʿUthmān b. Abū Shaybah > Wakīʿ > Sufyān > Abū al-Zubayr > Jābir

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ sent me on some business, and when I came to him he was praying on (the back of) his riding beast (moving) towards the east and making the prostration lower than the bowing.  

أبو داود:١٢٢٧حَدَّثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ

بَعَثَنِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ فِي حَاجَةٍ قَالَ فَجِئْتُ وَهُوَ يُصَلِّي عَلَى رَاحِلَتِهِ نَحْوَ الْمَشْرِقِ وَالسُّجُودُ أَخْفَضُ مِنَ الرُّكُوعِ