Guidance from The Prophet (peace be upon him)
Hadrat Abul-Juhaim Abdullah bin Al-Harith (r.a.) said: ‘The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said,
"If the person who passes in front of a praying person realizes the enormity of the sinfulness of this act, it will have been better for him to wait forty ‘---‘ than to pass in front of him.``
Related by Al-Bukhari and Muslim.
[The narrator was not sure whether the Prophet (peace be upon him) said forty days, months or years.]
Commentary:
One offering a prayer must strive to place a ‘sutrah’ or mark in front of them. A ‘sutrah’ refers to anything that a praying person sets up in front of them, be it a stick, or even a mere line which one draws on the ground. The distance between the one praying and the ‘sutrah’ should be a little more than the place on the ground where one makes one’s prostration in prayer.
It is categorically prohibited for one to walk between the one who is engaged in offering prayer and his ‘sutra’.
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