56 - Abu al-Azhar narrated to us, saying: Abu al-Mughirah narrated to us, saying: Al-Awza'i was asked about a man who prays on a packsaddle or a mattress? He said: "There is no harm."
57 - Muhammad ibn al-Wazir al-Dimashqi informed us, saying: al-Walid narrated to us, saying: and Shayban informed me, from Mansur, from Abu Hazim, from 'Azzah - the mawla (freedman/client) of Abu Bakr - that she heard Abu Bakr say to the women: "Woe to you! Do not pray on packsaddles."
Chapter: Prayer on a coarse hair-cloth (misah) that is not clean
• I asked Ahmad about praying on a coarse hair-cloth that is not clean? He said: "He should not pray [on it]."
• I asked Ishaq, saying: "A man prayed on a mattress that is not clean?" He said: "His prayer is invalid if he prostrated upon it and stood [upon it]." I said: "What if he spreads a clean garment over the mattress?" He said: "There is no harm in it; his prayer is valid."
58 - Ahmad ibn Nasr narrated to us, saying: Hibban ibn Musa narrated to us, from 'Abdullah, who said: Yunus informed us, from 'Uqayl, from Ibn Shihab, who said: I asked him about a dirty shadhakhunah (quilt/mattress cover); should one pray upon it? He said: "Spread a garment over it."
(1) In the original manuscript, it is neglected and unvocalized, and it may possibly read: "Do not pray" (la tusalli), with the inclusion of the deleted letter, which is a habit of some scribes; it may also possibly read: "He should not pray" (la yusalli). (2) This is how it appears in the original, and perhaps the correct reading is: "He said" (qala).
