Adnan Rajeh – Recitations from the book of Prophetic Descriptions 21

I'm reciting a hadith from the book Al

-Shama' Al-Muhammadi Al-Imam At-Tirmidhi, Rahimahullah

and I take a few hadith from a

chapter or a few chapters every night and

inshallah we'll kind of complete reading different hadith

from the different chapters over the next maybe

two weeks or so and tonight the chapter

is Baab Ma Ja'a Fi Qira'ati

Rasoolillah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam the recitation of the

Prophet Alaihi Wasallam of the Quran specifically so

a hadith that kind of give us some

idea of how he recited and this is

a very beautiful chapter and I'm going to

share with you three hadith that are short

and nice and inshallah you'll find them enjoyable

...

so Umm Salama in this hadith narrated also

in connection with Umm Abu Dawood it's a

reasonable chain of narration, she was asked how

was the Qira'ah of the Prophet Alaihi

Wasallam and her response was ...

meaning you heard every single letter it wasn't

the words that you heard, you heard the

letters when he recited Alaihi Wasallam and this

is how, this hadith is used to define

tajweed by the way like when you sit,

when I sit and I talk and we

do go, someone's going through an ijazah and

they're reciting to me I tell them that

what you're reading to me are not the

words, it's not the verses you are reciting

to me the letters, you are reciting each

letter, I need to hear each letter the

way it's supposed to be said, in the

right movement of the mouth with the exact

right enunciation, your tongue has to be in

the right place because I'm listening to letters

with you, I'm not listening to words or

verses, or surahs, I'm listening to letters because

that's how he read Alaihi Wasallam he would

recite in a way where you could hear

everything it was very clear when he recited

salallahu alayhi wasallam ajma'in and I think

that's something that we should continue to try

and teach and learn it's a beautiful description

qala haddathana mahmood ibn ghaylana qala haddathana wakee

'un qala haddathana miss arun an abil ala

alabdi an yahya ibn ja'data an ummi hani

in radiyallahu anha qalat kuntu asma'u qira

'atan nabi salallahu alayhi wa alayhi wa sallama

bil layli wa ana ala areeshi so ummu

hani radiyallahu anha was one of the sahabiyat

and she lived close to the prophet's house

and she said I would be on my

areesh areesh, if you go back to the

middle east, you know that they would always

in front of every house they have a

vine and because they become very thick they

can basically be a barrier between you and

your neighbors and you can sit, and ladies

used to use the areesh as a place

where they could sit and they wouldn't have

to put their hijab on for example and

they can see the night and the areesh

is basically the vine it's keeping a little

bit of a barrier between them and the

eyes of their neighbors so she would sit

on her areesh and then she would hear

the prophet alayhi wasallam reciting the quran during

the night, during his qiyam alayhi wasallam how

lucky is ummu hani that she got to

sit and just at night, instead of sitting

there quietly with a cup of tea she

got to sit there and listen to the

prophet salallahu alayhi wasallam reciting the quran at

night for as long as he would alayhi

wasallam and she could hear him, he would

recite in a voice that she could sometimes

hear radiyallahu anha the final one, and this

is probably the thing sorry, no this is

it so

this hadith narrated by abdullah ibn mughafal abdullah

ibn mughafal tells us, i saw the prophet

alayhi wasallam and this is a, this khatir

will become too long but this is one

of those moments and you have these moments

in the seerah and in the hadith of

the prophet alayhi wasallam with the sahaba they

remember these moments, and they talk to us

about these moments and they give us this

historical event and abdullah ibn mughafal remembers on

the day of fath, when the prophet alayhi

wasallam entered mecca again but he entered this

time, and he was not afraid and he

was not, they weren't trying to kill him

and they didn't have the ability to do

it anyways and after 20 years of jihad,

he came back to his hometown alayhi wasallam

he entered mecca on the day of fath

he entered mecca on the day of fath

and he recites and he guides you on

a straight path and may allah help you

he said, so he recited and returned raja

means he recited it as he was coming

in his head was down, stuck on the

mane of his horse or his naqa and

he was reciting these verses out loud with

his voice alayhi wasallam doing tarji' meaning he

would recite and then repeat again if you

like listening to the quran in majalis al

-tarteel similar to what shaykh al-minshawi or

shaykh abdul basit they would sit there and

people around them and they would recite and

go back and recite and go back a

couple of times kind of perfecting the rhythm,

making it sound nice so the prophet alayhi

wasallam on his horse entering mecca he's reciting

with his voice alayhi wasallam going back and

forth repeating the verse multiple times giving the

mudood, changing the rhythm every time wa qala

mu'awiyah ibn qurra mu'awiyah who is

the tabi'i who heard this hadith from

abdullah sayyidina abdullah ibn mughafal he heard it

from him yaqulu lawla an yajtami'an nasu

alayhi la akhaztu lakum fee thalika al-sawti

awil lahn he said if it wasn't for

the fact that i fear that if i

start doing this people start coming around and

asking i will recite to you as abdullah

recited it to me as he remembered it

from the mouth of the prophet salallahu alayhi

wasallam ajma'een like i recited the way

abdullah showed me the prophet salallahu alayhi wasallam

was doing it but i fear that i

do that i disrupt the halaqat that are

happening in the masjid and people come running

over to see what's going on so i'm

not going to do it but if it

wasn't for that i would show you how

he did it alayhi salallahu alayhi wasallam and

a lot of what you find today when

you go and listen to these great reciters

reading the quran and going back and forth

and taking time they learned this this is

something that was also handed down it was

passed down, these recitations, these methods if you

think about it how many methods are there

to making a dhan how many different rhythms

are there for qiraat quran they're not that

different they're all quite similar they were all

inherited from him salallahu alayhi wasallam ajma'een

one way or the other it came to

us from him alayhi salallahu alayhi wasallam that

this is how he kinda did it with

some variations the human experience will add some

variations here and there but the essence of

it is still the same and he would

enjoy this is what i miss i miss

this i can't give you this i can

give you i can do quite a number

of things for you i can't give you

this i don't have the voice for it

at all if i want to do tanfeer

min deenillah subhanahu wa ta'ala i will

call you all and i'll sit and try

to recite the quran like they would and

then everyone would leave and go to a

church or maybe leave it's not gonna work

you need someone who has the right voice

but we do have them we just don't

encourage this art it's an art it's an

art wallahi it's an art and if you

have not enjoyed it in your life then

there's a piece that's missing for you like

if you have not sat down and listened

to sheikh al-minshawi taking the verses in

surah al-hashr and just play just majestically

repeating them with each rhythm and putting the

emphasis on every specific words as it goes

along then you have not learned to enjoy

the quran yet there's a joy in hearing

how they did this because this is not

something they made up this is something that

was inherited majalis al-quran these date back

to his time alayhi salatu wassalam these date

back to his time now there are certain

things people will disagree did it happen during

the tarbiyah time did not happen i don't

wanna argue with you whether they sat and

did dhikr together or not whatever you want

to believe is fine by me but they

did this they did this they sat and

they recited and they listened and they enjoyed

it and the tabi'een did the same

thing and i miss that piece of my

life i miss it, i don't have it

anymore we had someone in this could have

done it but then he left the city

subhanallah but we have to start encouraging those

who have those voices to learn the quran,

learn the rhythms and learn how to do

it so that we can sit and listen

instead of me running my mouth for an

hour bring someone who just takes these verses

that we recited and just reads them time

and time again takbeer just making them to

the point where you we absorb them you

absorb you don't need someone like me to

explain them to you you'll absorb them on

your own because Allah's words are more powerful

than anything else we need to have that

joy of listening to those words and the

sahaba they felt that with him alayhi salatu

wassalam they felt his joy when he recited

they felt his passion when he read and

they enjoyed listening to him and they did

the same they did the same in their

lives and we've missed that we don't have

that anymore and i really wish we could

find a way to do it i don't

believe in calling people from overseas to come

and do this stuff i don't i don't

see the point of doing that i think

these things are easily built locally easily you

can educate people and you can teach them

but you just have to have the interest

we have to as an ummah have the

interest again in the quran in reciting and

listening because aqarat is not going to be

able to recite if he doesn't have people

who want to listen to him like we

need two we need people someone who can

read it well but i need people that

will sit and listen to him well and

enjoy just listening to that and that's the

both of them is something i think we

should work on i'm trying inshallah maybe we'll

be able to do it i'll recite this

last hadith because i think it's beautiful