as did Aḥmad (4/313) and al-Ṭabarānī in al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr (2/176/1674 and 1675), from Jundub ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Bajalī, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: … Then he mentioned it. *

3994 — “Straighten the rows in prayer, for straightening the rows is part of performing the prayer well.”

Al-Bukhārī (722), Muslim (2/31), Abū ʿAwānah (2/43), Ibn Ḥibbān (3/303), al-Baghawī in Sharḥ al-Sunnah (3/422), and Aḥmad (2/314) all narrated it through Hammām ibn Munabbih, from Abū Hurayrah, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him: … Then he mentioned it.

It has a corroborating narration from Anas ibn Mālik, attributed to the Prophet, with the same wording.

Ibn Khuzaymah (1543) and Aḥmad (3/179) narrated it.

Muslim records it with the wording:

“Align your rows, for aligning the row is part of perfecting the prayer.”

Al-Ḥākim (1/217) also narrated it in abbreviated form, with the wording:

“Straightening the row is part of performing the prayer well.” He said: “Authentic according to the criteria of al-Bukhārī and Muslim.” Al-Dhahabī agreed with him. *

3995 — “I have repeatedly urged you to use the siwak (tooth-stick).”

Al-Bukhārī (888), Ibn Ḥibbān (2/201/1063), al-Dārimī (174), al-Nasāʾī (1/6), al-Bayhaqī (1/35), Ibn Abī Shaybah in his Muṣannaf (1/171), and Aḥmad (3/143) all narrated it through Shuʿayb ibn al-Ḥabḥāb, who said: Anas told us that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: … Then he mentioned it. *