CHAPTER: Spitting In A Masjid Is Disliked
Anas bin Malik reported the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم as saying: Spitting in the mosque is a sin and it is expiated by burying the spittle.
Anas reported: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: Spitting in the mosque is a sin and it is expiated by burying the spittle.
Anas bin Malik reported: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: Spitting phlegm in the mosque. . . The narrator then transmitted the rest of the tradition to the same effect.
Abu Hurairah reported: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: if anyone enters the mosque, and spits in it, or ejects phlegm, he should remove some earth and bury it there. If he does not do so, then he should spit in his clothes and not come out with it.
Narrated Abdullah al-Muharibi: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: When a man stands with the intention of saying prayer, or if any of you says prayer, he should not spit before him, nor at his right side; but he should do so at his left side, if there is a place for it; or he should spit under his left foot and then rub it off.
Ibn Umar reported: One day while the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلمwas giving sermon he suddenly saw phlegm on the wall towards the qiblah (the direction to which Muslims turn in prayer) of the mosque. So he became angry at people. He then scraped it and sent for saffron and stained with it. He then said: When any one of you prays, Allah, the Exalted, faces him: he, therefore, should not spit before him.
Abu Saeed Al-khudri said: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم liked the twigs of the date-palm, and he often had one of them in his hand. He entered the mosque and saw phlegm in the wall towards qiblah and he scraped it. He then turned towards people in anger and said: Is any one of you is pleased to spit in his face? When any of you faces qiblah, he indeed faces his Lord, the Majestic the Glorious: the angels are at right side. Therefore, he should not spit on his right side or before him towards qiblah. He should spit towards his left side or beneath his foot. If he is in a hurry, he should do so-and-so. Describing it Ibn ‘Ajlan said: He should spit in his cloth and fold a part of it over the other.
Narrated Abu Sahlah as-Saib ibn Khallad: A man led the people in prayer. He spat towards qiblah while the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم was looking at him. The Messenger of Allah said to the people when he finished his prayer: He should not lead you in prayer (henceforth). Thenceforth he intended to lead them in prayer, but they forbade him and informed him of the prohibition of the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم. He mentioned it to the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم who said to him: Yes. The narrator said: I think he (the Prophet) said: You did harm to Allah and His Messenger.
Abu al-Ala reported on the authority of his father: I came to the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم who was saying prayer. He spat beneath his left foot
Abu al-Ala reported this tradition on the authority of his father to the same effect with a different chain of narrators. This version adds: “He then rubbed it with his shoe.
Narrated Wathilah ibn al-Asqa: Abu Saeed said: I saw Wathilah ibn al-Asqa in the mosque of Damascus. He spat at the mat and then rubbed it with his foot. He was asked: Why did you do so? He said: Because I saw the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم doing so.
Narrated Ubadah ibn as-Samit: We came to Jabir ibn Abdullah who was sitting in his mosque. He said: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم came to us in this mosque and he had a twig of date-palm of the kind of Ibn Tab. He looked and saw phlegm on the wall towards qiblah. He turned to it and scraped it with the twig. He then said: Who of you likes that Allah turns His face from him? He further said: When any of you stands for praying, Allah faces him. So he should not spit before him, nor on his right side. He should spit on his left side under his left foot. If he is in a hurry (i. e. forced to spit immediately), he should do with his cloth in this manner. He then placed the cloth on his mouth and rubbed it off. He then said: Bring perfume. A young man of the tribe stood and hurried to his house and returned with perfume in his palm. The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم took it and put it at the end of the twig. He then stained the mark of phlegm with it. Jabir said: This is the reason you use perfume in your mosques.