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Our beloved Prophet, praise and peace be upon him, slept upon a hard leather mattress stuffed with the fiber of palm trees. The mattress was so hard that the palm fiber marks left welt marks upon his blessed body when he arose.
One night Lady Ayesha, may Allah be pleased with her, decided to fold the mattress in four so as to make it a little more comfortable. The next morning the Prophet, praise and peace be upon him, asked what she had spread out for him that night, so Lady Ayesha, may Allah be pleased with her, told him what she had done. The Prophet, praise and peace be upon him, told her to return it to had it had been because its softness deprived him from his voluntary prayers -- this was because the softer mattress had caused him to sleep more soundly than when he slept on a hard mattress.
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