when the Messenger of Allah would stand for the obligatory prayer, he would raise his hands to the level of his shoulder, and he would do this [also] when he finished his recitation and intended to bow, and he would do it when he raised his head from Ruku, and he would not raise his hands in any of his prayers while he was seated. When he would rise from the two prostrations, he would likewise raise his hands, and say the Takbir, and when he opened his Salat after the Takbir, he would say: “I have directed my face towards the One who has created the heavens and the earth, as a Hanif, and I am not of the idolaters. Indeed, my Salat, my sacrifice, my living, my dying, is for Allah, the Lord of all that exists, without partner, and with this have I been ordered and I am of the Muslims. O Allah, You are the King, there is none worthy of worship except You. Glorified are You, You are My Lord, and I am Your slave, I have wronged myself and I admit to my sin, so forgive me all my sins, verily, there is none who forgives sins but You, and guide me to the best of manners, none guides to the best of them except You, and turn away from me the evil of them, none can turn away from me the evil of them, none turns away from me the evil of them except You, I am here in Your obedience and aiding Your cause, and I am reliant upon You and ever-turning towards You, [and] there is no refuge from You nor hiding place from You except (going) to You, I seek Your forgiveness, and I repent to you (Wajjahtu Wajhi Lilladhi Fataras-Samawati Wal-Arda Hanifan Wa Ma Ana Min Al-Mushrikin, Inna Salati Wa Nusuki Wa Mahyaya Wa Mamati Lillahi Rabbil-Alamin, La Sharika Lahu Wa Bidhalika Umirtu Wa Ana Min Al-Muslimin. Allahumma Antal-Maliku La Ilaha Illa Anta Subhanaka, Anta Rabbi, Wa Ana Abduka Zalamtu Nafsi Wa’taraftu Bidhanbi Faghfirli Dhanbi Jami’an, Innahu La Yaghfir udh-Dhunuba Illa Ant. Wahdini Li-Ahsanil-Akhlaqi La Yahdi Li-Ahsaniha Illa Ant. Wasrif Anni Sayyi’aha Illa Ant. Labaika Wa Sa’daika Wa Ana Bika Wa Ilaika, [Wa] La Manja Minka Wa La Milja Illa Ilaik, Astaghfiruka Wa Atubu Ilaik).” Then he would recite, then when he would bow, his speech in his Ruku, would be to say: “O Allah, to You have I bowed, and in You have I believed, and to You have I submitted (in Islam), and You are my Lord. My hearing, my sight, my brain and my bones are humbled to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds all that exists (Allahumma Laka Raka’tu Wa Bika Amantu Wa Laka Aslamtu Wa Anta Rabbi, Khasha’a Sam’I Wa Basari Wa Mukhkhi Wa Azmi Lillahi, Rabbil-Alamin).” Then, when he raised his head from Ruku he would say: “Allah hears the one who praises him (Sami Allahu Liman Hamidah).” Then he would follow it with: “O Allah, our Lord, to You is praise filling the heavens and the earth and filling whatever You wish of things afterward (Allahumma Rabban Lakal-Hamdu Mil’as-Samawati Wal-Ardi Wa Mil’a Ma Shi’ta Min Shai’in Ba’d).” Then, when he would prostrated he would say in his prostration: “O Allah, to You have I prostrated, and in You have I believed, and to You have I submitted (in Islam), and You are my Lord, my face has prostrated to the One that created it, and grated its hearing and sight, Blessed is Allah, the Best of Creators (Allahumma Laka Sajadtu Wa Bika Amantu Wa Laka Aslamtu, Wa Anta Rabbi, Sajada WAjhi Lilladhi Khalaqahu Wa Shaqqa Sam’ahu Wa Basarahu, Tabarak Allahu Ahsanul-Khaliqin).” When he was finished with his Salat, we would say: “O Allah, forgive me what I have done, before and after, and what I have hidden, and what I have done openly, and You are my Deity, there is none worthy of worship except You (Allahummaghfirli Ma Qaddamtu Wa Ma Akhkhartu Wa Ma Asrartu Wa Ma A’lantu, Wa Anta Ilahi, La Ilaha Illa Ant).”

“Ibn Juraij said to me: “Ubaidullah bin Abi Yazid informed me that Ibn Abbas said: “A man came to the Prophet and said: ‘O Messenger of Allah! I had a dream at night while I was sleeping, in which I was praying behind a tree, when I prostrated, the tree prostrated along with me. Then I heard it saying: “O Allah! Record for me, a reward with You for it, remove a sin from me by it, and store it away for me with You for it, and accept it from me as You accepted it from Your worshipper Dawud (Allahumma Aktub Li Biha Indaka Ajran, Wada Anni Biha Wizran, Waj’alha Li Indaka Dhukhran, Wa Taqabbalta Min Abdiki Dawud).” Al-Hasan said: “Ibn Juraij said to me: ‘Your grandfather said to me: “Ibn Abbas said: ‘So the Prophet recited (an Ayah of) prostration them prostrated.’” [He said] “So Ibn Abbas said: ‘I listened to him, and he was saying the same as the man informed that the tree had said.’”