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Undesirability of Glancing in one Direction of the other during Prayer

The Book of the Prohibited Actions – Chapter 341 : Ahadith 1755 – 1756
Imam Abu Zakariyya Yahya ibn Sharaf an-Nawawi (d. 676 AH)

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1755 `Aishah (radiyallahu anha) said: I asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ about random looks in Salat (prayer), and he replied, “It is something which Satan snatches from the slave’s Salat.”[Al-Bukhari].

1756 Anas (radiyallahu anhu) said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to me, “Beware of looking around in Salat (prayer), because random looks in Salat are a cause of destruction. If there should be no help from it, it is permissible in the voluntary and not in obligatory Salat.”[At-Tirmidhi].