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1201. It was narrated that Jābir said: "The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ was ill, and we prayed behind him while he was sitting, and Abū Bakr repeated his Takbīrs so that the people could hear them. He turned to us and saw us standing, so he gestured to us to sit down. So we prayed behind him sitting. When
he said the Salâm he said: 'Just now you were doing what the Persians and Romans do for their kings when they are sitting. Do not do that. Follow your Imâms: If they pray standing then pray standing, and if they pray sitting then pray sitting.'" (Sâhîh)
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Commentary
This incident is not of the Prophet's ﷺ final illness; because there is a clear elucidation that Abû Bakr ؓ and the worshippers were all standing. This incident belongs to the period of some other earlier illness of the Prophet ﷺ.
