Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Q&A The Salat of Women According to the Sunna
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Our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam showed us how to live our
life in, he is more virtuous, it is more virtuous to follow the
Sunnah. How can we do? How can we, but how can we? How can we do a
few things interpreted by the Imams example salats our Prophet
did not order women to pray different to him. Why do we do it?
Now, this is a fluid question, because it's assuming that what
the Imams are saying, they're making things up. And it's also
assuming that the Prophet salallahu Salam showed women how
to pray, and showed men how to pray as well. Right, so let's
clarify the fundamental aspects. Question is, did the Prophet
salallahu Salam show the men and the women how to pray? And said,
did he ever say in any Hadith? Do Do we have any narration that
shows that Abram SallAllahu Sallam told the men and women to pray in
the same way? Number one, because if that was the case, then what
these Imams have done is absolutely wrong. Right, clearly
wrong. But that's what we have to determine. So
after all, my study on this subject, and I've done quite a bit
of study on this subject, because I wrote a book on this subject,
the frequent Imam. And the whole point was to remove doubts like
this. This is a misunderstanding this generally provided this
question, I'm assuming, is coming from a person who's heard from
someone that men and women's prayer are the same. I don't think
they've seen a hadith to that effect because I don't believe
there's a hadith to that effect. The prophets of Allah says in
fact, what he said is Salou Kamara, Ito Mooney, who suddenly
pray, like the way you see me pray. He said that to the men, he
never said that to the women necessarily. So how do women
figure it out? Well, women have the women companions, Omaha to
mumineen. And you have a number of narrations that show that many of
the Omaha to many of the women have the time of Rasulullah
sallallahu Sallam used to do this such that differently, their
prostration differently, and do the different functions that we
mentioned differently. Now, the question is that if they did it
differently, and the prophesy Lawson was saying, pray, like
you've seen me pray, then they either misunderstood the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa salam and did it differently, or made it up by
themselves. But for the women of the time Rasulullah Salallahu.
Salam to have done that, they would have obviously had a
precedent so that they would have seen some of the Omaha minion
praying, or they would have seen. And clearly there's narrations,
which show that the women usually contract themselves in prayer and
not keep
expanded in in the prostration, which is one of the main places
where there's a difference.
So there are a number of narrations to that effect, which
you can look at Inshallah, and even on some some Academy, we're
going to have a, a series on the evidence is of the prayer in which
one of these things will be mentioned. And if you want to look
at these durations, get? There's a number of books even in English on
this subject, even if you look online, you'll find them. Right,
there's one by Sheikh Riyadh in which he discusses the woman's
prayer. There's a number of books in Urdu and Arabic as well allow
sunnah and etc, that discuss the women's prayer. So this question,
the problem is that it's assuming that a person did say pray, just
like, you know, just like men and women should pray the same. He
never said that. So for example, in some places he actually
clarified for example, in one narration is general, right in
Muslim it says, Do not place your arms on the ground, forearms on
the ground like dogs do, which means in frustration, don't put
your forearms on the ground. However, in another version of
that hadith, he clarifies that this is for men, he says, Your men
should not do that. It's difficult for women not to do that, or that
I would still prefer women don't do that just to deal with that
hadith as well. And they should keep it on their side. This is
still can be contracted doesn't need to be on the ground, though.
It can be on the side, but it is mainly on them I have mentioned
it's fine to be on the ground because of this narration. So it's
always important, and I'm glad this question was asked, but it's
always important to look at where the Hadith got now that the Imams
if it was clear from the sort of loss or loss and why would they
what what time did they have to waste to try to make up another
way of the prayer? You know, they the reason why they had to, they
mentioned other things is because that's what the narration is
mentioned. That's what the Sahaba were doing and the Sahaba to doing