Adnan Rajeh – Recitations from the book of Prophetic Descriptions -19
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Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim, walhamdulillahi rabbil alameen,
Allahumma salli wa sallim wa barak ala nabiyyina
muhammadin wa ala alihi wa sahbihi ajma'in,
we continue inshallah tonight reciting a hadith from
al-shamail al-muhammadiyya al-imam al-tirmidhi,
and I'm going to recite three ahadith inshallah
quickly, right after we have, so from now
on after isha there will be lectures, the
IDA, the Imam of the Islamic Academy will
have lectures after isha and the masjid for
most of the night, so every year it's
the same issue, whenever isha gets early we
ask people inshallah after the khatira to pray
sunnah swiftly and then do their witr or
do their qiyam at home or socialize in
the lobby so that the shukh who are
giving their lectures can give their lectures in
the main hall inshallah ta'ala, some days
there will be even lectures in the extension
so you may not have that option, some
nights, I think tonight you have that option
but some nights you may not, alright, so
the chapter that talks about how he slept
alayhis salatu was salam and the hadith, I'm
going to choose one hadith from this chapter,
so the prophet alayhis salatu was salam when
he slept is how ibn aazib described this
to us, he would lie on his right
side and he would put his right hand
under his right cheek alayhis salatu was salam
and then before he slept he would say,
oh my lord, protect me from your punishment
on the day that you resurrect all of
your servants and there are multiple hadith or
multiple wordings of dhikr he would use alayhis
salatu was salam before he went to sleep
and he would sleep in different methods as
well alayhis salatu was salam, sometimes on his
right side, sometimes on his back, sometimes on
his left side, he would often advise not
to sleep on the belly even though there
are some narrations that he may have done
that in his life alayhis salatu was salam,
in general his sleep alayhis salatu was salam
when he did it he saw himself as
he respected the action itself and he respected
what it meant and he understood that when
you are sleeping part of your spirit goes
back to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and
either he holds it or he sends it
back so he would say these adhkar or
these invocations as a reminder to himself that
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is in charge
and in control and you never know when
you will put your head down for sleep
and not wake up in the morning may
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grant you long
lives which is why he said what he
said alayhis salatu was salam because he was
aware of these possibilities.
The second hadith that I'm going to narrate
to you, I just want to make sure
that I got the right one.
Which one is it?
There's many of these.
I'll just read it from where I wrote
it down.
This is the chapter of what the Prophet
alayhis salatu was salaam's ibadah was like.
So I asked Aisha how was the ibadah
of the Prophet alayhis salatu was salaam?
How were the acts of worship that he
did?
And this is asked by Abdullah ibn Shaqiq,
one of the tabi'een who learned from
Sayyidah Aisha.
She said
the
Prophet alayhis salatu was salaam would pray a
long night standing on his feet and he
would sometimes pray a long night sitting down.
And if he prayed standing up, his ruku'
and his rafa' and his sujood and his
jaloos would all be in the form as
if you're praying normally standing up.
And if he prayed sitting down, then his
ruku' and his jaloos and his sujood would
all be in the frame of him sitting
down alayhis salatu was salaam.
So he did both salallahu alayhi wa sallam
ajma'een, whatever allowed him to do as
much ibadah as possible.
Rather than holding yourself to a standard that
you can't hold yourself to and then not
doing the ibadah altogether.
So that's the flexibility of his mentality alayhis
salatu was salaam.
Instead of saying I either pray standing up
or I don't pray at all, he'd know.
I pray standing up and if I can't
then I'll pray sitting down and if I
can't then I'll pray lying down.
And this is madkhalat madakhal ash-shaytaan on
someone.
That's why people in Ramadan they don't show
up for salah because they're tired.
Well you can pray sitting down but no
I won't do that.
Why?
You're better than Muhammad salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
He would do this long night, he would
pray jalis alayhis salatu was salaam.
You're not better.
Show up and pray and pray as much
as you can and pray until you're tired
and then go home.
And you should pray every night.
And this is not only Ramadan but in
every night of your life there should be
a small amount of qiyam for yourself.
And if you can't do it standing up,
do it sitting down.
And that's how he thought and looked at
these things alayhis salatu was salaam.
The final one that I'll read to you.
Ahafsah tells us about him alayhis salatu was
salaam.
The Prophet alayhis salatu was salaam would pray
sometimes fissubha, meaning early in the morning, before
fajr, meaning just before the day begins he
would pray.
And he would pray sitting down during that
time.
And he would recite the surah, when you
read it slowly.
You read it with a little bit of,
when you kind of repeat what you're reading
and you take your time.
And she said, this is what Ahafsah says
in describing it, حَتَّ تَكُونَ أَطْوَلَ مِنْ أَطْوَلَ
مِنْهَا Meaning, the surah that he's reciting now
becomes longer than surahs that are longer than
it's because he's taking so much time reciting
it.
So sometimes you recite, you hear the shuyukh
like Abdul Basit and Shaykh al-Minshawi and
Shaykh al-Hussary, these great reciters, they recite
very slowly and they repeat.
The Prophet alayhis salatu was salaam would often
do this in his salah, alayhis salatu was
salaam.
In his salah, he would recite and repeat
and recite and taking time, taking a surah
that's really short, reciting it to the point
where you feel like this surah is ten
times longer than surahs that are much longer
than it's because he's taking his time and
enjoying the recitation alayhis salatu was salaam.
So he would do this.
And the reason I'm telling you all this
is because he prayed in different forms and
different manners and different lengths, standing and sitting
and reading slowly and reading quickly.
He prayed in whatever way it meant something
to him alayhis salatu was salaam.
He prayed in whatever method that allowed him
to connect to that which he was reciting
because he was enjoying his time between the
hands of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
He was enjoying his time reciting and listening
to the Qur'an that he was reciting
alayhis salatu was salaam.
And this is what we want to learn
from him alayhis salatu was salaam.
Not the technicals and the mechanics.
Don't focus on the mechanics of exactly how
many and when.
Focus on the spirit of what he was
doing alayhis salatu was salaam.
So you can take that spirit and benefit
from it or else it becomes meaningless to
you because you can't always keep up the
mechanics exactly how he kept them up.
And we don't have evidence that he always
kept them up perfectly in the same method
every single night.
We know that he loved to pray and
that he did alayhis salatu was salaam.
And he did it in whatever way allowed
him to connect to that which he was
reciting.
I hope that was a benefit to you.