Narrated Anas bin Seereen:
We went to receive Anas bin Malik when he returned from Sham and met him at a place called 'Ainat- Tamr. I saw him praying riding the donkey, with his face to this direction, i.e. to the left of the Qibla. I said to him, "I have seen you offering the prayer in a direction other than that of the Qibla." He replied, "If I had not seen Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) doing it, I would not have done it."
Reference | : Sahih al-Bukhari 1100 |
In-book reference | : Book 18, Hadith 20 |
USC-MSA web (English) reference | : Vol. 2, Book 20, Hadith 204 |
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