parents should also order their children to apply all its conditions and articles too, so pay heed to this. (1)
[4] Doing Sal?t while the Iz?r is let down to the ground:
Ab? Hurairah ( - رضي الله عنه -) related that a man was once doing his Sal?t and his Iz?r was let down. The prophet ( - ) said to him: ‘go and perform Wud?’’. The man went and performed Wud?’’. The prophet ( - ) said to him a gain: ‘Go and perform Wud?’’. Another man -who was present- asked: ‘O Messenger of All?h ( - )! Why did you ask him to perform Wud?’? The prophet ( - ) answered: ‘He performed his Sal?t while his Iz?r was let down to the ground. Verily, All?h ( - ) does not accept [i.e. does not give reward for] the Sal?t of he who performs it and his Iz?r is let down to the ground’. (2)
Abdull?h ibn ‘Umar related: The prophet ( - ) said: ‘All?h ( - ) does not look [with mercy] at the man who drags the trail of his Iz?r out of conceit’. (3)
Ibn Mas‘?d ( - رضي الله عنه -) said: ‘I heard All?h’s ( - ) Messenger ( - ) say: ‘whoever lets his Iz?r down in his Sal?t out of conceit, his acts
(1) From a commentary by shaikn Al-Ab?n? on “Jilb?b Al-Mar’ah walib?suhah in Al-Sal?t” by Ibn Taymiyyah.
(2) Narrated by: Ab? D?w?d in the book of prayer, chapter: Letting the garment down in Sal?t, (vol. 1 / p. 172) (no. 638) and in the book of clothes, chapter: Narrations concerning the ruling of letting the Iz?r down, (vol. 4 / p. 57) (no. 4086), Ahmad in his “Musnad “(vol. 4 / p. 67), An-Nas?’? in his “As-Sunan Al-kubr?”, the Book of Adornments, as in mentioned in “Tuhfatul Ashr?f “(vol. 11 / p.188). An-Nawaw? said in “Riy?dus Salih?n “(p. 795) and in “Al-Majm?’ ” (vol. 3 / p. 178), (vol. 4 / p. 457): ‘This had?th is authentic for the conditions set by Muslim for the authentic had?th apply on it”. Ath- Thahab? held the same opinion in “Al-Kab?’ir “(p. 172): Great sin no.52 “letting Iz?r down out of conceit” with my documentation of the had?th. In my second verification of this had?th, I clarified its weakness.
(3) Narrated by Ibn Khuzaimah in his “Sah?h “(vol. 1 / p. 382) in the chapter titled with: Threats against those who let their garments down in Sal?t, he said: ‘‘Ulamah disagreed regarding the had?th’s chain of narrators; some said ‘It is related from Abdull?h Ibn ‘Umar. I mentioned this chain in the chapter titled with “Clothes”.