the authentic ones prohibiting raising the gaze during prayer, found in "the two Ṣaḥīḥs" and others. You can see many of them in "al-Targhīb" (1/188-189), and I have documented some in "Ṣaḥīḥ Abī Dāwūd" (847-848). It does not seem to me that this prohibition is specific to supplication during prayer as opposed to supplication outside of it; rather, it appears that raising [the gaze] is prohibited in both cases. And Allāh knows best. (Note) Al-Khaṭīb al-Tibrīzī attributed in "al-Mishkāt" (1/749 and 750) the anomalous narration of Abū Dāwūd regarding raising the gaze to the sky to Ibn Mājah as well! This is a pure error. Ibn Taymiyyah attributed it in "al-Kalim al-Ṭayyib" (49/59) to the four! This is a clear leniency; because the mentioned raising is not found with anyone other than Abū Dāwūd, and Ibn al-Qayyim followed him in "al-Wābil al-Ṣayyib" (p. 132 - verified by Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir), and this passed unnoticed by him, even though he documented the ḥadīth by mentioning the locations of the ḥadīth with the four by parts and pages! And he authenticated its isnād! And al-Anṣārī left it blank in his edition (p. 214), and thus is the alleged verification!

(When he would sit in a gathering or perform a prayer, he would speak some words. ʿĀʾishah asked him about these words, and he said: If he spoke good, it would be a seal upon them until the Day of Resurrection, and if he spoke otherwise, it would be an expiation for him: Glory be to You, O Allāh, and with Your praise, there is no deity but You, I seek Your forgiveness and repent to You). It was narrated by al-Nasāʾī in "ʿAmal al-Yawm wa-al-Laylah" (309/400) and through his route: al-Ḥāfiẓ at the end of his book "Fatḥ al-Bārī" (13/546): Abū Bakr ibn Isḥāq informed us: Abū Salamah al-Khuzāʿī Manṣūr ibn Salamah informed us: Khallād ibn Sulaymān informed us—Abū Salamah said: And he was from