Praying Toward a Grave
He ﷺ forbade offering prayer in the direction of a grave; he would say, “Do not sit on graves, and do not pray facing them.” ⦗140–144⦘

Dress in the Prayer
He ﷺ began the prayer wearing whatever clothes were at hand; he kept no garment reserved exclusively for prayer—apart from the Friday prayer, as will be mentioned. At times he “prayed in a red ḥullah” (two pieces: an izār, lower wrap, and a ridāʾ, upper cloak), and he instructed the Companions, saying, “When one of you prays, let him wear an izār and a ridāʾ.” He even “forbade a man to pray in trousers when he had no ridāʾ over him.” This applied only to someone who could obtain a ridāʾ, for he ﷺ said, “When one of you prays, let him wear his two garments, for Allah is most deserving that one beautify himself before Him. If he owns only one garment, let him tie it as an izār when he prays, and none of you should wrap himself in prayer like the wrapping of the Jews.”

On other occasions he prayed “in a Syrian jubba with tight sleeves.” When he wished to perform wuḍūʾ he tried to draw his arm through the sleeve, but it was too tight, so he brought his hand out from underneath it. Under the jubba he had on either a shirt or an izār.

Sometimes he “prayed wrapped in his Ḥaḍramī cloak, with nothing else over it.”

He also prayed “in a single garment, crossing its two ends over his shoulders,” and the last prayer he ever led was in a “Qaṭarī mantle” draped across him. He said, “When one of you prays in a single garment, let him cross its two ends [over his shoulders].” In another narration: “None of you should pray in a single garment with nothing of it on his shoulders.” He qualified this by saying, “If you pray wearing only one garment and it is wide, then wrap yourself in it; but if it is narrow, gird it as an izār.” A man asked him, “May one of us pray in a single garment?” He replied, “Do all of you find two garments?!” Another said, “I go hunting; may I pray in only a shirt?” He answered, “Yes—fasten it even with a thorn.”

He “prayed while wearing a mirt (woolen shawl) with part of it covering his wife while she was menstruating,” and he “prayed in the garment in which he had been intimate with his family, so long as he saw no impurity on it.”

He “performed Maghrib wearing a silk farrūj—that is, a qabāʾ—and when he concluded the prayer he removed it.”