Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Shamail al Tirmidhi Sitting of the Prophet () Part 19
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa
salatu salam ala Sayidina Muhammad Ali he will be about our CO Salam
at the Sleeman Cathedral on Eli Ahmed Dean Emeritus.
So chapter
a very interesting chapter because this is something that we can
take some example from because we stay in the masjid for long
periods sometimes in Ramadan is coming and in Ramadan
How do you sit in the masjid? What is the Sunnah way of sitting
inside the Masjid? How did the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam
used to sit in the masjid? So, that is what this chapter is all
about chapter on the sitting of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam bourbon major a Fijian city Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam which is chapter 20 of Imam Tirmidhi Shama and so, this
chapter will actually deal with not just a sitting but anything
other than standing, because standing is not really something
that people do for a long period of time standing you do for dura
you do for moving from one place to the other. So standing is
normally a transitional kind of activity, where a sitting is
something we do sitting people, we sit down for rest, we sit down to
read, we sit down, to listen to something, we sit down for many
different things are lying down. So this chapter actually includes
sitting and lying down, not just sitting, although human Tirmidhi
has given it the chapter title Jelsa which means sitting but it's
essentially anything other than standing. Let's read the Hadith
first, just for the for the narration for the rewire Bismillah
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young pilot had been to Muhammad and Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi
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and one is already another dignity to me when Anna and I'm making a
note to interview Salalah while he was at almost the infamous city
while they're originally here.
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had this in Abdullah Ibrahim Al Madani Nucala had this nice Hakuna
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the WB D. There are only three three Hadith in this chapter.
The first hadith is related from our fun from Abdullah Abdullah
Hassan who relates from his grandmother, who then relates from
Taylor, Binti Taylor Binti Mahama. So a woman Sahaba female Sahaba
she relates that she saw Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam in the masjid. Now it's possible that she was in the
courtyard, because the rooms of Rasulullah Salah awesome also
looked into the Masjid. So the, if you're wondering how a woman so
the prophets, Allah is in the masjid. The Masjid wasn't always
close, like we have now, you know, with totally different sections. I
mean, they may have in the especially in the beginning, there
were probably no proper walls or anything, it was just the roof. So
you can you can put this in perspective, she saw us will allah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in the masjid and he was sitting as he
describes his cool facade. facade is a specific way of sitting. It's
a very humble way of sitting. And essentially what it is, is that a
person sits on the bottom and raises the knees raises the legs
up. And normally what they used to do is, especially the Arab, the
desert, Arabs, they don't have places to lean, they're moving
from one place to the other, they don't have places to lean big
walls that they can lean on. So what they used to do is that they
used to sit like this, and they used to use either the shawl or
some kind of something to tie with, you know, with a wall, you
just can you can relax. So this way, if it's taped together with
some kind of cloth, then it's all compact. So that was their way of
relaxing. If they had to sit for a while. It was also a very, that is
not the way any haughty, arrogant person would ever sit, because it
doesn't look haughty. Right. It looks very down to earth very
humble, kind of looking. That's why they said that this is also
Gil, subtle Arab. It's the way the desert Arabs used to sit, and the
Prophet sallallahu Sallam used to show that I'm not such a haughty
person that you can't approach me. That's one of the reasons. So she
saw Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam in this manner, but look at the
effect it had on her. It was such a humble
way of sitting, such a such a humble way of sitting totally
against any kind of pomp and show, but it says that order it to
middle Faruk, I became just too shy I began to tremble because of
the order with which it just seemed. And it actually says that
the Prophet sallallahu it was in his and furthermore it rasool
Allah and Allah Azza wa muda Hashem, when I saw the Prophet
sallallahu Sallam in this such a humble and treating manner, the
way he said just showed that there was no arrogance and he had this
great respect for Allah subhanaw taala that has such an influence
on her and such an effect on her that she said I just started
trembling by this kind of effect. That's all he mentions in this
hadith this hadith ends it doesn't tell us any other detail about it,
but in another rewire in another narration, it says For Karla who
jelly so there was a person sitting with Rasulullah sallallahu
some she was behind a sort of Lhasa Larissa, she saw him from
the back, sitting like this, and she began it had such a profound
effect on so one of the people who were sitting there, he said, Yeah
rasool Allah, or ADA till Myskina the Myskina mean, the poor woman,
she's started trembling. She's, you know, got this effect on her
for color Sudha sallallahu alayhi wa sallam while I'm younger in a
year, the prophets, Allah Salam said he, he gave this decree, he
said something, and he didn't look at me. Without looking at me. He
said, What under in the lottery? While I was towards his back, he
said, Yeah, Myskina alayka Sakina. Right. Oh, poor woman, it's
necessary for you to have Sakina you should you should exercise
tranquility. As soon as he said that, for coilette For us, Herb
Allahumma can Dahal a vehicle beam in a robe. As soon as he said
that, whatever, that special order come into my head by which I began
to tremble, that disappeared. I became calm, and more had the
theme dimension that this is maybe the first time that she saw a sort
of loss or loss, and she was just totally taken aback. What she had
in her mind what she saw, it just took her completely aback, but the
words are sort of lesson calm that just as the effect of him, and
that's exactly as described in the first chapter, he says, when
somebody saw the person loves them for the first time, they were in
shock, they were in awe. But when they had some communication with
him, then it would be different. Like for example, there was
another man who came to see Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam and
he's had he had such an impact on him as well. He began to tremble
as well. So the Prophet sallallahu sallam said when Alec he said
relax, take it easy for him. Needless to be medicine. I'm not a
king. Don't take me like a king in the mana Ibnu Emirati mill Quraysh
that Kuru caddied, I'm just a man who is the son of a woman of the
Qureshi who used to eat dried meat. What does that mean? dried
meat, because the poor people, they could get fresh meat, but the
dried meat, the poor people, they would have to get some meat and
then dry it for a long period of time and then eat a bit here and
there not even cook necessarily dried meat. I'm the son of a woman
who eats dried meat. So you mustn't feel that you have to act
like you're in the court of some major king with all of the
courtiers just ready to pounce on you. Now, this way of sitting,
it's said it's a very humble way of sitting. And that's why I'm
telling you he has mentioned this to show that this is one way to
sort of loss and loss minister said
he used to sit in other ways as well. But this was the one way
that he used to sit. And she mentioned the Hadith generator
mentions that he was moto Hashem, he was humble in the way he sat.
You can't just act humbly it needs to be something from the heart,
where your connection with Allah subhanaw taala, a friend of mine,
he told me about another person that I also know. He says one day
I met him.
And I embraced him more Annika.
And I don't know I just felt something about this person.
So I asked him
and he explained that he's been doing a lot of vicar ajeeb that
one person actually felt the effect nowadays is about five
years ago, felt the effect from another person of the vicar the
other person was doing. When you do thicker it makes it it creates
a certain effect within you, which other people who are looking for
that kind of thing will will feel will experience Subhanallah but
with Rasulullah sallallahu it's going to be it's going to be huge
impact.
The profit or loss I'm used to himself say that agilus coma
usually so I sit like a slave sits and I eat kumbaya collabed I eat
like
As a slave, it's not either at Jerusalem, Jabari Anil Mata Kabir
in monitorable. Attica. What are the multifactorial Misaki? In what
at Job Anil Mata gene, he wasn't dismissive of the poor people of
the miskeen and other people like that he was always down to earth
ready to speak to them. That's why the had the theme dimension. The
Shura, the commentators they mentioned in a hadith actually
mentions men half Allah Who, who if I mean who could loose a woman
lum Yaga villa, how Rafa hula hoomin coalition,
that Whoever fears Allah subhanho wa Taala Whoever fears Allah
subhanho wa Taala everything will be made to fear him, everything
will be made to fear him.
The person will walk down calm because they know Allah subhanaw
taala is looking after them everything else will. And that has
that you know, some people say that when a dog tries to comes
around you you should be very calm and confident otherwise it smells
the fear in you. And then he attacks you. I don't know how true
that is. But there is something on this subliminal level that Allah
subhanaw taala deals with. If you fear Allah subhanho wa Taala
people will fear you. Because Allah subhanaw taala will put that
Rob in the hearts of the people subliminally, right? And then it
says that whoever does not fear Allah subhanho wa Taala Allah
subhanaw taala will make him fear everything. There are very, some
very tired people. And you know who they're fearful of. They're
fearful of their wives. They fearful of their children. They're
not fearful of anybody else, because they've got a big army.
But they're fearful of the people that they cannot send their army
against. Nobody's gonna send the army against his wife and this is
really crackers. Right? Or against his children. He's fearful of
their children, they get whatever they want their children, you
know, the wives, they control them. You've seen some big, big
kings and rulers and sovereigns, with their wives used to control
not to say that you shouldn't listen to your wife and you
shouldn't be fearful of your wife. Right? If she's somebody to be
feared. You know what I mean? Okay. Okay. All right. The next
hadith is Hadith number 126.
This hadith in which it mentions that ibid iblue. Tamim relates
from his uncle, Abdullah, Abu Zaid, ignore awesome ignore
Muhammad, famous a hobby. They say that he's the one who killed
Mustela Malcolm thurb. He he saw Rasulullah sallallahu artesanato
Anivia Salallahu Alaihe Salam was still Cleon. He saw rasool Allah
salah, some lying on his back. So one way the prophets Allah, some
set was in the first Hadith, which is kind of a squat, but sitting
down, not a full squat. What would you call that? Then way to write
so you understand from the description, the bottom is on the
ground, firmly, the knees are up, the legs are close by the stomach
is touching the knee is touching the thighs. So you kind of all
crouch together like that. You're crouched together like in a fetal
position. It's like a fetal position, isn't it? a fetal
position and sometimes is to do a harbor which means they used to
tie around. That was the one this next Hadith 100 number 126. The
prophets Allah was seen lying down. The process was amused
actually lay down after fajr prayer. Sorry, between the Sunnah
of Fudger and fajr prayer. Why did he used to lay down he used to
make longtime Tahajjud prayer. So now, after tahajjud Why did he
used to lie down? There's some people nowadays they will do that
they will actually the whole Masjid. They will make their son
and then we'll just lie down you'll see all these people lying
down.
The reason the promise of loss I'm used to lay down. Many reasons are
given that maybe for a slight light rest after standing up for
such a long time, one of our Shudra he's mentioned that the
Prophet salallahu Salam in his tahajjud in his Munna joked with
Allah subhanho wa Taala in his intimate discourse with Allah
subhanho wa taala, he's reached such a high level of spirituality,
that now lying down on the ground just helps him to come back to
Earth in a sense to just get back so that he can lead the prayer he
can speak to the people Allahu Allahu Allah knows best but he
used to lie down, maybe it could have been to take a bit of
relaxation, but in this case the prophets of Allah was was lying
down on his back in the masjid, in the masjid, while the originally
he added okra
playing a placing one leg over the other leg. Now this needs to be
understood, you could do this in two ways. You could have the you
could be lying down on your back and have the knees drawn up. So
the knees are up the elevated and then have one leg over the other
which is more of a weird kind of, because normally people when you
sit down they do that. The other option is that you have the leg
stretched out. You have the leg stretched out and then you have
one over the other. So there's two options. Then the other issue is
that what are you wearing? Are you wearing
trousers Cyril or are you wearing izhar? A lunghi? Are you wearing a
lower wrap? So now that is where you have to be careful because
this hadith mentions Roselawn Stan lying down on his back with his
one leg over the other. It doesn't mention if the knees were up or
not. It just says one leg over the other. Now,
there's another Hadith in Bukhari and Muslim. No, this hadith in
Bukhari and Muslim as well. But there's another Hadith in Muslim
in from Jabiru, the Allah one and Olivia SallAllahu Simikot, Elias
Tolkien had to come to my yoga who had originally he and okra, and
none of you should stop should lay down on his back, and then place
the one leg over the other. So there he is prohibiting it. And
here, this is what he's being he is related as doing it. So how do
you combine the two? How do you understand the two? Well, two
things. One is that
some have said that maybe this is what he used to do, and then He
prohibited it afterwards. But it's better if we can have both
ahaadeeth work, which is possible. One is that if you're wearing a
lunghi, if you're wearing a lower rap than a professor Lawson is
prohibiting that you raise your legs while you're on your back.
And then you place one leg over the other, because it's possible
that something become exposed, your outer becomes exposed, the
subtler the the nakedness becomes exposed, which obviously is wrong.
But if the legs are stretched out and you got one leg over the
other, then there's nothing wrong with that. In fact, that's more
conceding. So the Hadith in Muslim, we will relate that to a
prohibition of way where you're wearing a monkey. And you could
become exposed if you did that. So don't do it. Because when you're
lying down, and you're doing that, you're not gonna be able to be
take care of where your lung is, and everything because you're
gonna be asleep. And you know, you could move around. So that's why
He prohibited that. But if you've got trousers on or sidewall as
they call them, right, then it would be fine even to do that,
because this hadith is general that he had one leg over the
other. And if you do have long yawn, and you're lying down with
your legs outstretched, it's actually better to put one leg
over the other because it's more concealing. So it's better than to
say that one Hadith is from before, and it no longer applies.
That's why if no Hydroflask Colonia Rahim Allah he says, what
that we all have in the NASA to do to reconcile the two and make both
of them have some meaning is better than to cancel one out and
abrogate and considering abrogated. Also, what we hear is
that there are many Sahaba, who used to have been observed as
putting one leg over the other. So it proves that the prohibition is
specific about a way that the hour becomes exposed, otherwise it's
fine. Now the other thing is, we understand from this, that in the
masjid, you could lean you could lie down, within reason. I mean,
you can lay down or you could relax in the masjid for that
reason, because the Prophet salallahu Salam is shown to do
that. Some say that it's good to do the NIA of Attica, if you're
going to lay down and sleep in the masjid, if you're going to if
you're going to do any kind of resting, then you should do nee of
Attica because the masjid is not really for resting. But for more
Turkey Fein who are in the masjid, for them, they have to do this
part of the day to relax and other things. Likewise, if you if they
are serving food in the masjid, if they do, then you should make it
near of Attica that kind of permits you to do that is best not
to but if they are going to, then you need to make any of it tick
off. It's also that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam most
likely did this when there weren't so many people around now in the
midst of people because the prophesy person was so bashful, so
shy, that if everybody's there, he's not going to lie down. It's
kind of very strange to lay down in front of everybody This was
when they were very few people. This is when this has been
observed. The last hadith is 127 which is related from Abu Seidel,
Kadri or the Allah one called a countersuit ally sallallahu alayhi
salam, either jealous or filled Masjid when the Prophet lost him
used to sit in the masjid. So until now it was about resting and
lying down. This one is if the Bronx Allah ism used to sit in the
masjid the Barbie a day he he used to not with a cloth, but he used
to put his arms around his legs in the way where the the knees are
up. He used to use his hands, right as the brother is doing down
there right now. It's showing us right to Zocalo here. There is a
prohibition of doing this though, while the Imam is getting hotter.
And now you and who will miss God will Imam we have to know
yesterday will know because it's a very relaxed it's a very relaxed
position and you could fall asleep. So don't do this if you're
in a position where you're going to have to pray or so on.
I only do it if you're going to relax. Now there's some people
where soon as the band starts, mashallah they managed to go to
sleep. Right? And then somebody has to rub your back to wake you
up.
You know, I guess if you're used to listening to so many by hands,
one after the other, I think maybe, you know, you get in the
habit of falling asleep. The best way to fall asleep sometimes.
Right now the thing is, some other Sooners have Rasulullah sallallahu
sallam, when the Prophet sallallahu Sallam used to sleep
after fajr it's not mentioned here, but in another Hadith, the
prophet callosum used to sleep on his right hand side. This was when
he needed a short rest, and not a deep sleep. I mean, the profit or
loss from his heart see, his hacia was a he never saw his eyes
slipped by his, his heart did not sleep anyway. But this is the way
he used to sleep after after fajr he used to lay down on his right
hand side. And he used to keep the head up resting on the on the
elbow on the palm with the elbow and hand up so it wasn't fully on
the ground, his head was up this way you can have a rest and you
will never fall asleep because if you try to fall asleep, you'll
fall down.
So he was like that.
So if you want to relax sometimes where you get a bit of relaxation
and you don't fall asleep, then you do that.
Okay, another thing you also know of Rasulullah sallallahu some
after fajr specifically, is that you know the profit and loss I'm
used to make Salaat Fajr and then he used to sit until sunrise to
make his chakra.
So the way he used to sit and do his the species.
Right which if you if you do this, then this is you know, this is the
Sunnah you should observe is that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, this was the one time that he used to sit cross legged.
This was the one time that he used to sit cross legged after fajr
prayer until sunrise. So many of the shorter Imam nawawi and so on,
they've explained that the promises are not one particular
way of sitting. He used to say, as the next chapter will explain this
a bit more than first of all, some did not like to lean, for example,
when he was eating. But these are the few things the broccoli salad
some sometimes you just sit cross legged specifically after fajr was
one of them. Right? Another one is, especially if you're going out
in public, and you're gonna have to stay up anyway, because that's
part of the team then you should observe this sooner. And even if
you're just sitting in the local masjid for a short while,
and you're going to you're going to read some tasar bfsb and so on,
you should sit cross legged in essence, you don't have to, it's
just what the Office allows us to do.
Sometimes he used to do this at bar, this kind of what did we call
this posture?
Come up with a name for the fetal kind of position. Not not exactly
but that kind of a position and sometimes he laid down and
sometimes he put his legs together in that
and he did all of these different ways that that the OMA could also
do different ways. sallallahu alayhi wasallam