Whoever raises his head before the imam — his forelock is in a shaytan's hand

Al-Muwatta relates from Abu Hurayra that the Prophet said: 'whoever raises his head and lowers it before the imam — his forelock is only in a shaytan's hand' Muwatta 245.

The Prophet warned against raising the head before the imam in prayer; raising it and leaning toward the imam before him is among the faults of prayer, and he made the shaytan the holder of the forelock of whoever does it ¹. The books of fiqh cite this hadith in the chapters of imamate and raising the hands ¹.

This hadith is among the warnings against the shaytan in prayer; this browser gathers it with the rest of the reports of jinn and devils dealing with human beings ¹.