Sa’eed ibn ‘Abdil-‘Azeez would weep if he missed a prayer in congregation (i.e. the obligatory congregational prayer).
Category: Prayer
The caravans of the pious and righteous have passed
Wake up O man! Night has passed, and day has arrived, and before you is a long journey and [yet you have] little provisions; The caravans of the pious and righteous have passed by and we have remained [behind].
Whoever is not concerned with the prayer
Whoever is not concerned with [preparing for] the prayer before its time, then he has not dignified or venerated it.
Zubayd used to divide the night into three parts
‘Wake up’, and if he was lazy, he would pray his [third] part [of the night].
Pray as you see me praying
«Pray as you see me praying»
Reciting the Qur.aan in prayer
Indeed, Tameem ad-Daaree used to recite the [entire] Qur.aan in a [single] rak’ah.
Divide the night into three parts
And a third [in which] he would do salaah [pray].
Whoever stands the night in prayer
Whoever stands the night in prayer, Allaah will make easy for him his standing on the Day of Judgment.
I yearn to remain standing until my body aches
Talq ibn Habeeb would not go into rukoo’ once he started Soorah al-Baqarah until he reached (Soorah) al-‘Ankaboot.
He would only sleep a little at night
al-Haafiz ‘Abdul-Ghanee was coming to visit me in Asfahaan, and he would only sleep a little at night, instead [choosing to] pray, read and weep.