Muwatta Malik, 376

Yahya related to me from Malik from his paternal uncle, Abu Suhayl ibn Malik, that his father said, "I was with Uthman ibn Affan when the iqama was said for the prayer and I was talking to him about being assigned a definite allowance by him. I continued talking to him while he was levelling some small stones with his sandals, and then some men that he had entrusted to straighten the rows came and told him that the rows were straight. He said to me, 'Line up in the row,' and then he said the takbir

Abou Souhail Ibn Malek a rapporté que son père a dit: «on fit le deuxième appel à la prière au moment où j'étais avec Osman Ibn Affan, lui demandant une aide financière. Je ne cessais de lui parler, quant à lui, il essuyait le sable de par ses chaussures, quand vinrent les hommes dont il a chargés d'égaliser les rangs, l'informer que ces derniers le sont déjà; Osman me dit: «mets-toi en rang, puis il fit le takbir». Chapitre XV Le fait de poser une main sur l'autre pendant la prière