SLEEPING

Arabic naum ( نوم‎ ). Heb. ‏נוּם‎ nūm . It is usual for Muslims to sleep with the head in the direction of Makkah. Abū Ẕarr relates that on one occasion he was sleeping on his belly, and the Prophet saw him, and, kicking him, said, “O Jundub! this way of sleeping is the way the devils sleep!” Abbab says he saw the Prophet sleeping on his back, with one leg lying over the other, but Jābir says the Prophet forbade that way of sleeping. ( Mishkāt , book xxii. ch. v. pt. 1.)