What Suffices As A Sutrah (Screen) For One Performing Prayer
Darussalam · Volume 2
(5) The Chapters OfEstablishing The PrayerAnd The SunnahRegarding ThemSunan Ibn Majah Darussalam English translation
الحديث: 940 ¦ الجزء: 1 ¦ الصفحة: 303
Source no. 940 · Volume 2 · Page 440
Hasan sahih
حسن صحيح، صحيح أبي داود (٦٨٦)
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940. It was narrated from Musa bin Talhah that his father said: "We used to perform prayer while the beasts were passing in front of us. That was mentioned to the Messenger of Allâh ﷺ and he said: 'If something like the handle of a saddle[1] is placed in front of anyone of you, it will not matter whoever passes in front of him.'" (Sahih)
940 - حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ نُمَيْرٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ، عَنْ سِمَاكِ بْنِ حَرْبٍ، عَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ طَلْحَةَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، قَالَ: كُنَّا نُصَلِّي وَالدَّوَابُّ تَمُرُّ بَيْنَ أَيْدِينَا، فَذُكِرَ ذَلِكَ لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، فَقَالَ: «مِثْلُ مُؤَخِّرَةِ الرَّحْلِ، تَكُونُ بَيْنَ يَدَيْ أَحَدِكُمْ، فَلَا يَضُرُّهُ مَنْ مَرَّ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ»
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a. How high (or what type) a Sutrah (a symbolic barrier or screen in front of the worshipper) should be, is determined by this Hadith, which is equal to the 'handle of a saddle' in height. The handle referred to is about one-and-a-quarter or one-and-a-half feet in height. A Sutrah should, therefore, be of this minimum height. b. The Sutrah is a mark, which determines that whoever passes in front of the worshipper, should pass from beyond that mark, not from within it.