[4] Several supplications before and after offering Salat...

[4] Several supplications before and after offering Salat are recommended by the Masomeen -asws , find for example some in: ‘ Supplications before and after Salat ’. Imam Jafar-e-Sadiq -asws Started Salat by Saying ‘اللَّهُ أَكْبَرُ’ Abu ‘Abd Allah -asws stood up straight facing the direction of Qiblah.

Imam -asws allowed his hands to rest on his thighs, with his fingers close side by side, kept his feet near each other, only leaving between them a distance of three fingers opened up, with his toes facing the direction of Qiblah without allowing them to deviate from this direction and with humbleness said: ‘اللَّهُ أَكْبَرُ’’ ‘Allah is Great beyond description.’ Imam -asws then recited Al-Hamd (the first Chapter of the Holy Quran) with clarity and fluency and Chapter 112 (Qul ho Wallah ho Ahad) of the Holy Quran.

Imam -asws then paused for a breath while still standing and raised his hands up to the sides of his face and said: ‘اللَّهُ أَكْبَرُ’’ while still. For more Ahadith on reciting Bismillah loudly and Al-Hamd, sura Inna Anzalna (Chapter 97) and Qul ho Wallah ho Ahad (as one has to say three time at the end of Qul ho Wallah كَذَلِكَ اللَّهُ رَبِّي كَذَلِكَ اللَّهُ رَبِّي كَذَلِكَ اللَّهُ رَبِّي) please see: ‘ Loud Recitation of Bismillah, Chapter 97 and 112 ’.

Ruku (Hadith continues) Imam -asws then bent down for Ruku’ (kneeling). Imam -asws then placed his palms over his knees allowing them to be filled up with his knees that were separate from each other, and pressed them backward until his -asws back became so straight level that even had there been a drop of water or oil it would not flow to any side.

While standing straight Imam -asws said: ‘سَمِعَ اللَّهُ لِمَنْ حَمِدَهُ’ ‘Allah -azwj Hears all those who praise Him.’ Imam -asws then while standing raised his hands up to the sides of his face and said: ‘اللَّهُ أَكْبَرُ’ Then Imam -asws bowed down for sajdah.