At a glance
The story
Al-Muwatta relates from Abu Hurayra (may God be pleased with him) that the Prophet ﷺ reported the shaytan comes to the praying man and confounds him until he does not know how much he has prayed; whoever finds that should prostrate twice while sitting 1 Muwatta 263.
The meaning
This hadith shows the shaytan besets prayer with forgetfulness of the count, and that God legislated the two prostrations of forgetfulness for certainty about the prayer; it belongs to the chapters of forgetfulness in the Sunan and the Muwatta 1.
Notes
Among the reports of devils dealing directly with the praying man; this browser shows it in the devils section 1.
Connections
- Related to
- Muhammad· Abu Hurayra· Evil ones among humans and jinn· Muwatta 263
People and things also explored
Muwatta 263· Whoever raises his head before the imam — his forelock is in a shaytan's hand· When Ramadan enters, the shayatin are chained· The shaytan's scheming at the call to prayer· The shaytan's knots on the sleeper's crown· The tahlil fortress against the shaytan· Muslim 1079 — When Ramadan comes the gates of Paradise open· Muwatta 177
Sources
- Muwatta, recension of Yahya ibn Yahya al-Laythi (ed. Bashar Awwad Ma'ruf)
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islam.museum contributors. “The shaytan confounds the praying man about his count”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/shaytan-confuses-the-prayer-count/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-10.
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