Abu Taymiyyah – Why Its Permissible to Pray More than 11 for Taraweeh
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Praying more than 11 rakaats
in the
Taraweeh.
Let's look at now what in Nazimin Allah
mentioned.
It is not appropriate
that we have that
we have extremism,
that we go overboard,
and also by negligence
with regards to this issue. What is this
issue?
The issue of praying more than 11.
You have 2 groups, left wing and right
wing.
Not Tommy Robinson.
Got left wing, right wing.
You got a group of them who say,
that if somebody now prays
more than 11 raka'ats,
then this individual now his action is a
bidah.
You have another extreme. Anybody who prays 11,
they criticize him.
So you have those who pray more,
they are criticizing. And those who stick with
11, they criticize as well. If both of
them are criticizing, one time a guy called
me and I was in Lester.
And obviously, he sees the position that it's
okay for somebody,
to pray 20. That's my position as well.
And he was handling
me. And the guy is blasting me on
the phone. He's talking to me. I'm like,
okay. I I'm with you, brother.
And I try to make him understand,
why are you calling me as if I
have a position that anyone who prays more
than 11 is a billah?
And I told him, This
is Madhab Imam
This is the madam of Imam Abu Hanifa
And the guy went quiet. God talks for
like 15 minutes.
Blasting me, criticizing me. Why? What are you?
Salafis, Wahhabis, bro.
So you have these 2 extremes.
So then he goes on to say,
So you have that group who says, you
can't pray more than that which was mentioned
in the sunnah. And we have a hadith,
hadith
What did you say?
He would pray 11, and she said he
never prayed anything more than that.
In Ramadan, outside Ramadan, and we have another
narration where the best of Allah has to
pray 13. So we have this narration where
there's an adid, a specific number, 11 and
13.
And you find that type of individual,
he's very harsh
in criticizing that individual who plays more than
11.
We are called
They go as far as saying that he's
he's sinful, and he's disobedient.
In the
Ramadan.
When you took me and then he would
what? The wither of
the
Aza.
Many scholars,
they saw that this is the
sunnah.
Because this is something that he done from
with amongst the
The companions were there.
And nobody disapproved of this.
And there's another group of scholars,
Alim Muhammadullah,
who say that the sunnah is to do
39.
Why? Because this was the action of the
people of Madina.
In Madina, this is what they used to
pray. And Imam Malik saw
them doing this in Madina, he took it.
And some scholars even go as far as
saying that there's Ijma,
that you can break 20.
Listen to the evidence.
They say that you find that this is
the action that takes place
all the way till our time.
Who's saying this? It's It's
says
The Muslims carried on praying it,
20 rakaats.
And when did his Hafib Narahu
passed away? He died in the year 241
Israeli.
So this is something that continued.
Okay? Something that continued even in the time
of the Sahaba, the time of the so
on and so forth.
Are you with me guys?
So all that period you find it discontinued.
There's many many that I can mention. I'm
gonna be conclude with 2.
Whoever thinks
that
has a specific number and you can't do
more and you can't do less,
and this individual has,
the
also Ibrahim Abdul Bar in Islam he
says
k. There isn't a specific number when it
comes to the rakat
of
And
that with anyone from the people of knowledge,
that can be what? Exceeded.
Why is a wonderful topic.
It's a wonderful issue.
It is what? A righteous act.
Highest act that a person can engage in.
And
whoever wants
can do more.
Anyone wants to do less, it's fine.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gives no fear
to give success
to whoever he was and he aids him.
And that which he does.
Point of the matter is my brother's as
you can see, is this now an issue
that we can be rough and tough in?
It's an issue which is what?
Room for discussion. Right?
There's room for tolerance.
It's an issue that can be discussed, but
should we now be doing
on one another, calling this guy an innovator,
blasting this individual, being rough? The answer is
no.
Because my brothers and my sisters, when you
look at their hadith, look at this hadith
that was narrated
by
Which is the night?
Which is heard?
The most virtuous time that you could pray.
The last 3rd of the night.
Pray as much as you want
or whatever you want.
Also, Nirmala radiya Muhammadan Muhammad said,
I am going to pray the same way
I saw my companions praying.
I'm not going to prohibit anybody
who prays at night.
Even in the daytime for however what he
was afraid.
Except just don't pray at a time when
the sun is rising and also when the
time
is sun is setting.
Also, there's a narration that Imam Al Bani,
your
authenticated
to him.
Pray in the night whatever
rocks your
boat.
But like I said, it's the best that
a person, he ends up doing what?
He does 11, but he also does it
how?
With the imam.
If someone's going to say let us now
follow the sunnah of the messian as salallahu
alayhi wa sallam, and you wanna pray the
most virtuous type of PM,
what do you do?
You look at?
The 3. The 3 things that I mentioned
to you guys. The first one was what?
The number of rakat.
9.
8. Right? That's what the messrah alaihi wasallam
prayed as Aisha radhiallahu ta'ala mentioned.
He would do 8 and then he would
do 3. You also look at what? The
time. The time. When is the best time
to pray?
Last
5th.
Last 5th.
The last 5th. If you split the night
into 6th,
into 6 pieces.
K? Or in the 6th parts, go for
the 5th. I already explained. Go back to
Ahmed Al Hakam
how to go about,
calculating the time.
Also, would you look at? What's the third?
How how how much? How?
How? A sifa.
What is the best type of?
That a person, he
go to sleep before?
He prays and also he Go to sleep.
Follows you up by sleeping. Before.
He only ends up waking up for the
purpose of praying in the night. And also
how?
It makes it really really long.
She will say, we'll pray for, don't ask
about how beautiful
and how long he was. Meaning, it was
so beautiful,
and they would do 4.
So you look at these three issues from
3 different angles in order for it to
be the most virtuous prayer that you can
pray and that is the sun of the
mess of Allah. It's not just looking at
it as it's being 8 rakat
And I'm praying very, very quickly.