If a man walks in front of the worshipper it does not interrupt his prayer, but it detracts from its reward. Animals passing in front of the praying person do not interrupt the prayer. The Sunnah indicates that the one who is praying should prevent anything or anyone who wants to pass in front of him even if they are not one of those three, neither a dog nor a woman nor a donkey. It is Sunnah for the believer to put something in front of him before he prays, such as a chair or a spear that he sticks in the ground, or a wall or pillar that he faces towards when he is praying so that nothing will pass in front of him that could interrupt his prayer.

Tahiyyatul Masjid (“greeting the mosque”) is Sunnah according to most of the scholars, some of the scholars stated that there was consensus on this point.

Prophetic Hadiths encourage the Muslim to strive to come to the mosque walking, not riding, even if his house is far away, so long as it does not cause hardship and he does not have an excuse such as being old and so on, and he should not accustom himself to drive to the mosque if it can be reached on foot without difficulty.

It is not permissible for a person to start praying when he is resisting the urge to urinate or defecate because Prophet Muhammad said: “You should not pray when food is ready or when resisting the urge to urinate or defecate.”

The scholars agreed that it is disliked to close the eyes in prayer unless there is a reason for doing so, such as fear of seeing something one should not be looking at while praying, such as seeing one’s wife, or a non-mahram woman, naked.