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Amir ibn Abd Allah was one of those who are humble in their prayers. He would
sometimes pray while his daughter was playing the tambourine and women of
the house were chattering freely, but he was quite insensitive to the noise and
did not even hear it. They once asked him: “Does anything come into your mind
during the prayer?” “Yes,” he said, “the thought that I am standing in the
presence of Allah, the Almighty, and that I am bound for Paradise or for Hell.” He
was then asked: “Do you get any worldly thoughts, as we do?” To this he
replied: “I would rather be made a butt for lances than get that sort of thing in my
prayer.” He was also in the habit of saying: “Even if the veil was lifted from the
unseen, my faith could not be more certain than it is now.”

Another of these characters was Muslim ibn Yasar, the one who did not notice
the collapse of a column while he was praying in the mosque.

One of these men had a gangrenous limb. Amputation was necessary, but it
seemed impossible until someone said: “He will not feel anything while he is at
prayer.” The operation was in fact successfully performed during the prayer.

Someone said: “Prayer belongs to the Hereafter, to enter it is to leave this world.”