No. 1703

Ibn 'Umar reported Allaah's Prophet (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as saying: Observe some of your prayers in your houses and do not make them graves.

No. 1704

Ibn 'Umar reported Allaah's Prophet (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as saying: Pray in your houses, and do not make them graves.

No. 1705

Jabir reported Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as saying: When any one of you observes prayer in the mosque he should reserve a part of his prayer for his house, for Allaah would make the prayer as a means of betterment in his house.

No. 1706

Abu Musa reported Allaah's Prophet (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as saying: The house in which remembrance of Allaah is made and the house in which Allaah is not remembered are like the living and the dead.

No. 1707

Abu Huraira reported Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as saying: Do not make your houses as graveyards. Satan runs away from the house in which Surah Baqara is recited.

No. 1708

Zaid b. Thabit reported: The Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) made an apartment with the help of the leaves of date trees or of mats. The Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) went out to pray in it. People followed him and came to pray with him. Then they again came one night and waited (for him), but the Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) delayed in coming out to them. And when he did not come out, they cried aloud and threw pebbles at the door. The Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) came out in anger and said to them: By what you have been constantly doing, I was inclined to think that it (prayer) might not become obligatory for you. So you must observe prayer (optional) in your houses, for the prayer observed by a man in the house is better except an obligatory prayer.

No. 1709

Zaid b. Thabit reported that the Prophet of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) made an apartment in the mosque of mats, and he observed in it prayers for many nights till people began to gather around him, and the rest of the hadith is the same but with this addition:" Had this (Nafl) prayer become obligatory for you, you would not be able to observe it."