Adnan Rajeh – Etiquettes of Salah 13
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The importance of narrating hadiths and receipts is emphasized, along with the need to study and practice them in order to know how to pray and receive evidence. The speaker emphasizes the importance of following the madhab of the people behind them and following guidance to become more strict. The speaker also discusses the importance of understanding the ruling in Islam and the importance of following the guidance of others to become more aware of the ways people do things.
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Imam Ahmed with a reasonable state of narration.
I'm going to narrate to you two hadiths,
and the theme of the etiquettes of Salah
is still what we're covering.
And if you'll just be patient with me
for another couple of khawater, I'll move on
to something else inshallah, sometime end of next
week.
I want to get all of them put
in a playlist inshallah for the children to
benefit from later.
And this one here specifically is talking about
a topic that inshallah has a fiqh aspect
to it as well, so I'll make sure
that you're clear on it at the end
of it.
But this is what he said in this
hadith.
Qala man salla khalfa al imam, fa khira
'atu al imami lahu qira'a.
The one who prays behind an imam, and
the qira'a of the imam is going
to be a qira'a for them.
And this is regarding Surah al-Fatiha.
Now, Imam Ahmed also, amongst others like Abu
Dawood and Tirmidhi, narrate through Ubadah ibn al
-Samit.
He said, qal kunna nusalli khalfa rasoolillahi sallallahu
alayhi wa alayhi wa sallam, fa thaqulat alayhi
alqira'a.
Fa qala innakum taqra'una khalfa al imam.
So we were praying behind the Prophet alayhi
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam one day, and he
was reciting, and he wasn't with the same
degree of fluency or ease that he usually
recites with.
And then at the end of the Salat,
he turned around and said, some of you
recite with the imam?
Fa qala naam.
Yes, we do, Ya Rasoolallah.
If we know the verses, we start reading.
Fa qala laa taf'alum, wa laa taqra
'u khalfa al imam, illa bi Fatiha kitabi,
fa innahu laa salata liman lam yakra biha.
So don't do that.
Don't recite behind the imam.
If the imam is reciting, don't read.
Except if it's Fatiha, because without Fatiha, then
there's no Salat to begin with.
So these two ahadith are the two main
pieces of evidence that scholars over the centuries
have argued in terms of what you do
in Salat.
We end up with the following opinions that
we have.
And all of them are valid opinions, and
all of them are fine.
Which is why I tell people to study
a madhhab, and then pray with that madhhab,
and go with it, so that you know
how to pray, and you're doing it based
on scholarly knowledge, and based on evidence-derived
rulings.
So the first one is the position of
al-Malikiya and al-Hanabila.
So for them, you are not required to
recite Surah al-Fatiha after the imam is
done.
But if you do it, it's fine.
But you're not required.
The Maliki say you're not required, and it's
not necessarily Sunnah.
I mean, they don't care.
Basically, it's in the middle.
Hanabila say, but it's better if you have
time to do it.
The Shafi'iyya say that you must.
If you can, you must.
Meaning if the imam gives you the time,
then you must.
If he gives after Ameen, a couple of
seconds, you should be reciting Surah al-Fatiha
until he starts reading, then you stop.
The Hanafi'iya say you shouldn't open your
mouth.
You're not allowed to.
You don't say a word.
You don't say a word after the imam.
Whether it's Maghrib and Isha and Fajr, or
Dhuhr and Asr.
Even in Dhuhr and Asr, because the imam
is reciting.
He's reciting quietly, but he's reciting.
So you don't say a word.
The Hanafis don't have it.
And it's all based on the way they
understood these hadith.
Amongst, obviously, other pieces of evidence that are
similar.
I just narrated the two major pieces of
evidence.
And there's a lot of other ones.
And this is based on interpretation.
Now for me to sit down and explain
to you how they interpreted all these pieces
of evidence.
If you're willing to stay here until 11
.30. And take out notebooks and start writing
down.
And I'll give you a certificate at the
end of it.
And it'll consider a mini usool slash fiqh
course.
This is why you study and you seek
knowledge.
To actually understand, how did they arrive at
this ruling?
What piece of evidence did they look at?
What was the way that they actually interpreted
this evidence and derived the ruling through?
And that's really what knowledge is in Islam.
It's understanding how the scholarly minds processed all
of this information.
So I'm giving you the two hadith.
Where, yeah, you could understand it in different
ways.
And scholars understood it in different ways.
So for you, it's really whatever madhhab you
follow.
So if you're Hanafi, then you can stand
there quietly as the Imam recites.
If you're Shafi'i, the moment the Imam
says Ameen, you can start reciting.
And if the moment he starts reciting the
surah afterwards, then you quiet down and let
them continue.
And there's no haraj.
There's no problem whether you follow option A,
option B, or option C or D.
When it comes to this topic specifically, it's
fine.
The way that I'm praying, for salah specifically,
this is not the madhhab of this masjid.
But for salah specifically, I tend to follow
the Hanbali way.
It's the easiest of them all.
I find it for people.
It's the easiest of them all in terms
of leadership and people behind me.
There are certain things that if you follow
other madhhab, become a little bit more strict
for the Imam, which becomes a little bit
more strict for the ma'moom.
So I follow that.
And really the actual reason, and I've been
caught on this before and someone has figured
out, the actual reason is because this is
how they pray in the haram.
And people who don't have Islamic knowledge, in
terms of fiqh Islamic knowledge, and have never
studied a madhhab ever, have a TV.
And they'll turn on the haram and they'll
watch what they're doing in Mecca and Medina.
And that's how they pray there.
So it almost became the people's madhhab of
salah just by watching it all the time.
So I prefer in masjid, just follow what
they're doing in Mecca and Medina.
It's easier for people behind you because not
everyone has actually studied.
But you will go, for example, and travel.
Many of you like traveling.
So if you travel to Turkey, and you
enter one of the masjids, and the Imam
is reciting, وَلَبَالِّينَ آمِينَ You'll be the only
dude screaming ameen in the whole masjid.
You'll be the only guy.
You'll scream out ameen, and the actual Salafi
will be looking at you for quite some
time.
Because the Hanafis don't say a word, right?
And you're standing there screaming.
Because it's a matter of understanding how people
do things.
And I'm giving you this example specifically in
adab of salah.
As a segue to say it's amongst the
etiquettes of salah.
Understanding that there are different ways to do
some of these things.
Some of these details, there are different ways
of doing them.
So whatever you learn, go ahead.
But also understand that there will be people
standing beside you that may have learned it
from a different source and do it a
little bit differently.
It's fine.
It's absolutely fine.
The stuff that are problematic, we point out.
My job is to point out the things
that are problematic.
That will cause you to lose your prayer
or put you in danger.
And honestly, none of the rulings of the
four schools of jurisprudence will do that to
you.
All of them are khayr.
All of them have evidence to support them.
All of them are correct.
I just wanted to share that with you
as a way to kind of look at
it.
Inshallah, in a beneficial manner.
Translated by Dima Kamal Masri