What is the manners in prayer? What are the 7 rules of prayer in islam? What is the etiquettes of salah?
Adab (manners) is the plural of the word adab and expresses the things that the Prophet sometimes did and sometimes abandoned. Although abandoning these acts, which are also called mandūb or mustaḥab, does not require condemnation, it is more virtuous to do them. Like praying tasbiḥāt more than three times in rukūʿ and prostration, and reciting certain readings longer than the required sunnah recitation. Hence, ādāb legitimates and completes the sunnah acts.
The manners (mustaḥabs) of the prayer are as follows:[1]
1) To be modest, calm, and at peace in terms of external appearance and the inner world while performing the ritual prayers.
2) To tidy up one’s clothes. Such as lowering the folded shirts and trousers which are folded while performing ablution.
3) When men say takbīr al-iftitāḥ, allowing their hands out of their sleeves.
4) The imam and the congregation should stand up for the prayer when the muezzin says “hayya ‘ala’l-falāḥ” during the iqāmah.
5) The imam should start the prayer when the muezzin says “qad qāmat aṣ–ṣalah”. However, there is no harm for the imam to wait for the iqāmah to end and starting the prayer after the iqāmah is over. In fact, this is what is appropriate according to Abu Yusuf and the three schools, except for the rest of the Ḥanafis.
6) Men and women, who are in the state of prayer, should look at the place of prostration while standing, at their feet in rukūʿ, at both sides of the nose in prostration, at their laps and their thighs while sitting, and at their shoulders when offering salutations. While doing this, there should be an effort to pray with awe and attempt to be at the level of iḥsān. The Messenger of Allah (saw) described iḥsān as follows: “It is worshiping Allah as if you were seeing Him. Because even though you don’t see Him, He sees you.”[2]
7) It is mustaḥab to try to stop, as much as possible, the coughing, yawning, and burping during a ritual prayer, and if one is unable to do so, one should at least cover the mouth with the back of one’s right hand.
[1] Al-Zaylaī, Tabyīn al-Ḥaqāiq, I, 108, ff.; al-Shurunbulālī, ibid, p. 44; Ibn Abidīn, ibid, I, 446; al-Zuhaylī, ibid, I, 726 ff.
[2] Muslim, Imān, 57; Abū Dawūd, Sunnah, 16; al-Tirmidhī, Imān, 4; Ibn Maja, Muqaddimah, 9.
Source: Basic Islamic Principles (ilmiḥal) According to the Four Sunni Schools With Evidence From The Sources of Islamic Law, Prof. Hamdi Döndüren, Erkam Publications