Mukhawwal said:
“I heard Abu Sa’d, a man from the people of
Madinah,
say: ‘I saw Abu Rafi’, the freed slave of the Messenger
of Allah
(ﷺ), when he saw Hasan bin ‘Ali performing prayer, with
his hair
braided. He undid it, or told him not to do that, and said:
“The
Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade a man from performing prayer
with his
hair braided.”