Hadith 405

From Abu Salama, from Zaid bin Khalid Al-Juhani, may Allah be pleased with him: I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: "If it were not for the difficulty it would cause my Ummah, I would have commanded them to use the siwak for every prayer and I would have delayed the Isha prayer until one-third of the night." Zaid bin Khalid used to attend prayer at the mosque with his siwak placed behind his ear, at the place where a pen is placed behind a scribe's ear. He would not stand for prayer without using the siwak, and then he would return it to its place. [Narrated by Tirmidhi and Abu Dawood, but Tirmidhi did not mention: "I would have delayed the Isha prayer until one-third of the night." Tirmidhi said: "This is a good, authentic hadith."