وَعَنْ عَائِشَةَ رَضِيَ اَللَّهُ عَنْهَا
قَالَتْ: «كَانَ رَسُولُ اَللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَسْتَفْتِحُ اَلصَّلَاةَ بِالتَّكْبِيرِ، وَالْقِرَاءَةَ: بِـ (اَلْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ اَلْعَالَمِينَ) وَكَانَ إِذَا رَكَعَ لَمْ يُشْخِصْ رَأْسَهُ، وَلَمْ يُصَوِّبْهُ، وَلَكِنْ بَيْنَ ذَلِكَ. وَكَانَ إِذَا رَفَعَ مِنْ اَلرُّكُوعِ لَمْ يَسْجُدْ حَتَّى يَسْتَوِيَ قَائِمًا.
وَإِذَا رَفَعَ مِنْ اَلسُّجُودِ لَمْ يَسْجُدْ حَتَّى يَسْتَوِيَ جَالِسًا. وَكَانَ يَقُولُ فِي كُلِّ رَكْعَتَيْنِ اَلتَّحِيَّةَ. وَكَانَ يَفْرِشُ رِجْلَهُ اَلْيُسْرَى وَيَنْصِبُ اَلْيُمْنَى. وَكَانَ يَنْهَى عَنْ عُقْبَةِ اَلشَّيْطَانِ، وَيَنْهَى أَنْ يَفْتَرِشَ اَلرَّجُلُ زِرَاعَيْهِ اِفْتِرَاشَ اَلسَّبُعِ.
وَكَانَ يُخْتَمُ اَلصَّلَاةَ بِالتَّسْلِيمِ» أَخْرَجَهُ مُسْلِمٌ، وَلَهُ عِلَّةٌ 11 ضعيف
The Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) used to begin the Salat (prayer) with Takbir (Allahu Akbar – Allah is the Most Great) and the recitation with Alhamdu lillahi Rabbil alamin (praise is to Allah, the Rabb of the universe). And when he bowed down, he neither kept his head up nor bent it down, but kept it between that (two positions).
When he raised his head from the bowing position, he did not prostrate till he had stood erect; and when he raised his head after a prostration, he did not prostrate again till he had sat up.
And at the end of every two Rakah he said the Tahiyyah, and he used to sit on his left foot and position he right one vertically, and he prohibited the devil’s way of sitting on the buttocks. He forbade people to spread out their arms like a wild beast. And he used to finish the prayer with the Taslim (i.e. saying As-Salamu ‘alaikum).’