Mishkat al-Masabih — Hadith #48650

On the authority of Abu Sa`id al-Khudri, that the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, used to go out on the Day of Eid al-Adha and the Day of Fitr, and he would begin to pray, and when he prayed During his prayer, he stood up and approached the people while they were sitting in their prayer area. If he had a need, he could mention it to the people, or if he had a need other than that. He commanded them to do it and was saying: “Give in charity, give in charity, give in charity.” He was the one who mostly gave women alms and then left. He continued like that until Marwan was the son of al-Hakam. So I went out and confronted Marwan until we came to the prayer place. Then, behold, Kathir ibn al-Salt had built a pulpit out of clay and brick. Marwan was wringing his hand with me as if he was dragging me towards the pulpit and I was dragging him towards prayer. When I saw that from him I said: Where do I begin? By prayer? He said: No, Abu Saeed, what you know has been abandoned. I said: No, by the One in Whose Hand is my soul, you will not bring anything better than what I know three times, then he left. Narrated by Muslim