Hadith 25.3

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Abu Malik al-Ash‘ari said:

I must tell you how God’s Messenger conducted prayer. He said that he had the <i>iqama</i> announced, drew the men up in line and drew up the youths behind them, then led them in prayer (mentioning how he conducted it), then said, “Thus is the prayer of. . ,”* ‘Abd al-A‘la said: I think he must have said “my people.” * The wording of the tradition is incomplete. ‘Abd al-A‘la who appears at a later stage in the <i>isnad</i> supplies what he considers the missing word must have been. Abu Dawud transmitted it.