Hacene Chebbani – The Power Of Voluntary Prayers In Islam Part 4
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The speakers emphasize the importance of finding guidance and support through prayer, not just the head, and offer advice on how to handle it. They stress the need for people to use other languages when ordering prayer and offer guidance on how to handle it. The speakers also emphasize the importance of not overthinking prayer plans and suggest being cautious with one's words and actions. They emphasize the need to be combining intentions and avoiding using multiple languages while acknowledging the need to be careful with one's words and actions.
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As-salamu ala'la ashrafin mursaleen, Sayyidina Muhammad
wa ala alihi wa sahbihi ajma'in.
So we continue insha'Allah with our program
talking about the power of voluntary prayers.
And as I said before after isha' that
we will talk about sunnatul wudu' and salatul
haja.
So, I want you tonight to pay attention
to the proofs that are used to confirm
the sunnah of wudu and the other proofs
about salatul hajjah and how the scholars accept
some ahadith, they don't accept other ahadith and
why sometimes we said this sunnah is confirmed,
well confirmed, on a solid ground the other
method and the other prayer is not well
confirmed, it is accepted by some scholars but
it is rejected by some other scholars so
this is a good example how scholars use
this ahadith and these proofs from the sunnah
of our prophet Muhammad salallahu alayhi wa sallam
or from the Qur'an, right?
When we talk about Qur'an, it's always,
you know, confirmed but the meaning, the interpretation
could be, could vary from one school of
thought to another when we talk about the
ayah, verse from the Qur'an the same
applies to the ahadith of Rasulullah salallahu alayhi
wa sallam but there is something extra with
ahadith, something, another level of, you know, verification
which is is the hadith itself sahih or
not?
Is it fabricated?
Is it ta'if?
Very weak, weak, very weak so here that's
another issue with the ahadith but alhamdulillah Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala has used some great
scholars to sort out the ahadith to work
on the sunnah of our prophet Muhammad salallahu
alayhi wa sallam and they did a great
job telling us these ahadith are authentic, these
ones are not authentic, these ones are controversial
so alhamdulillah most of the ahadith that are
used in fiqh we got some knowledge about
their status or about the discussion that the
ulema, you know, had about so we're starting
with sunnah of ablution, sunnatul wudu' and the
first hadith here about sunnatul wudu' it is
a confirmed sunnah to begin with, it is
a confirmed sunnah it's like tahiyyatul masjid, well
confirmed not highly recommended but it is a
confirmed sunnah through the ahadith that are authentic
we start with the story of Bilal radiyallahu
anhu and it is found in Bukhari and
Muslim the story of Bilal radiyallahu anhu is
found in Bukhari and Muslim which means agreed
upon, highest level of authenticity when the ulema
looked at the different levels of ahadith, the
status of different ahadith when a hadith is
found in Bukhari and Muslim, that's it you
don't need to look into the status, you
just accept that the hadith is sahih so
this is a hadith of Abu Huraira radiyallahu
anhu he said he said that the prophet
s.a.w. said to Bilal after Fajr
prayer O Bilal, tell me about the worst
deed you have done in Islam because I
heard you being buried in front of my
hands in Jannah this is the words of
the prophet s.a.w. to Bilal so
Bilal answered him he said, the worst deed
I have done is that I didn't pray
Tuhur at night or day except that I
prayed Tuhur what was written for me to
pray this is the hadith of Bilal of
course Bilal didn't say two rak'ahs or
four or six but he said what was
written for me to pray so in this
hadith, the prophet s.a.w. said to
Bilal and it was after Fajr, he had
this discussion with him after Fajr prayer Abu
Huraira radiyallahu anhu is the one who is
narrating the story he told him, O Bilal,
tell me about a deed which you have
done after becoming or since becoming a Muslim
and you believe that it will have or
it will most likely bring you hope in
the reward of Allah s.w.t so
something that you have done after you became
a Muslim and you believe as a person
that this thing will most likely bring you
more hope in the reward of Allah s
.w.t something that you feel good about
it, you are doing it and you hope
that this is very rewarding so the reason
Rasulallah s.a.w. told him this he
said, for I heard the sound of your
sandals in front of me in paradise so
Rasulallah s.a.w. when he went to
the journey of Isra ul Mi'raj he
heard, he was able to recognize you know
maybe he was familiar with the sound of
his sandals in this dunya because he was
with him all the time he was the
mu'adhin of Rasulallah s.a.w. right?
making adhan all the time in the masjid
having close relationship with Rasulallah s.a.w.
so he was familiar with the sound of
his sandals he said, I heard the sound
of your sandals in front of me in
paradise so Bilal s.a.w. said, I
do not consider any act that is more
hopeful other than that whenever I make wudu
in any hour look, in any hour of
night or day so even during the times
of prohibition when the salah is prohibited if
he makes wudu and he wanted to pray
this sunnah sunnatul wudu, he would do it
he said in any hour of night or
day that was his statement except that I
would immediately offer or perform what was decreed
for me to pray that was the answer
of Bilal s.a.w. as I said,
this hadith is found in Bukhari and Muslim
the ulama called this prayer the sunnah of
wudu that's the only name that they gave
for this salah that Bilal used to do,
the sunnah of wudu now, there are some
ulama, I heard some ulama that Rasulallah s
.a.w. approved verbally approved what he said
and I don't know a version of this
hadith but I heard some ulama in their
lecture saying that Rasulallah s.a.w. verbally
approved, he said yeah, this is what made
you go to Jannah or this is what
helps you to go to Jannah or earn
a place in Jannah but I don't know
about this version but even if we don't
have this verbal approval right, from Rasulallah s
.a.w. the fact that he kept quiet
he didn't make any comment this is an
approval in itself and it should be taken
as a sunnah because approvals, his approvals Rasulallah
s.a.w. are part of the sunnah
because if it was wrong, he would tell
him no, no, no, I don't think this
sunnah would earn you a place in Jannah
maybe you went to Jannah for something else
right, he didn't say it, kept quiet this
is the hadith that we have unless I
am not aware of the other version of
the hadith of Allah s.w.t so
this is the first proof and it is
found what?
in Bukhari and Muslim so the ulama don't
need to look into they don't need to
verify the status of this hadith it is
accepted, Bukhari and Muslim second proof it is
also found in Sahih Bukhari and Muslim so
in the first hadith Bilal did not say
I used to concentrate in my salah I
wouldn't think about anything else he didn't say
anything I didn't say I would pray this
salah with khushu with full khushu, he didn't
say that he said I pray or I
offer what Allah s.w.t has decreed
for me to pray which means a good
number of rakaat wallahu alam, how many?
wallahu alam, he didn't give us a specific
number but in this hadith we have a
specific number which is rakaatain the second one
and the third one about sunnatul wudu I
have three hadiths to share with you tonight
but sunnatul wudu, we have three hadiths first
one Bukhari Muslim second one Bukhari Muslim and
the third one in Sahih Muslim all of
them are authentic so in the second one,
this is the hadith of Uthman radiallahu anhu
he said, qala qala Rasulallah s.a.w.
Rasulallah s.a.w. performed wudu and he
washed every part of his body three times
so that's the perfect form of wudu like
to do every, to wash every part three
times and then he said man tawadza nihwa
wudu'i hadha thumma qama fa raka'a
rakaatain la yuhaddithu fihi ma nafsah ah, hadi
ziyada huna it's
very easy to perform two rakaat and not
to think about business and not to think
about the weather and not to think about
politics it's a bit difficult he said, fa
raka'a rakaatain la yuhaddithu fihi ma nafsah
ghufira lahu ma taqadama min dhanbih al hafidh
ibn hajar al asqalani rahmatullahi alayhi the author
of the book nukhba nukhba al fikar he
said fihi istihbabu salati rakaataini ba'da or aqiba
al wudu wal mashru'u an tuadda ba'da
al wudu'i mubasharatan mubasharatan so Rasulullah said
in this hadith which is as I said
found in Bukhari and Muslim but this is
the hadith of Uthman ibn Affan the first
one was narrated by Abu Huraira after he
completed his wudu and he washed all his
parts with every part three times he said
whoever performs ablution the way I performed it
and offers a two rakaat prayer during which
he does not think of anything else this
is kind of difficult but you can try
you can try one time in the morning
or in the evening make wudu and say
ok tonight I'm going to pray two rakaats
with full khushu'a I'm not going to
think of anything I'm just going to forget
about Trump and the politics and the weather
and the economy I'm just going to forget
about everything and just focus on these two
rakaats and do them quickly try to you
know do them fully with full khushu'a
what will happen?
all your sins he said all his past
sins will be forgiven and Ibn Hajar al
Asqalani rahmatullah alayh Ameer ul Mumineen of al
-Hadith a great scholar of hadith who passed
away in 852 in the Hijri calendar he
said this hadith indicated the importance or the
recommendation of two rakaats immediately immediately after wudu
is completed because if he delayed one hour
or two hours the ulama said this is
not sunnah of wudu if you make wudu
and then after two hours or three hours
he said ok maybe I'll pray sunnah of
wudu he said no it shouldn't be accepted
as sunnah of wudu but if you want
to catch the reward earn the reward of
sunnah of wudu you need to do it
immediately after you finish your wudu so this
is the condition and that is the second
hadith that we use tonight the other one
is another beautiful hadith that is found in
Sahih Muslim another beautiful hadith so all of
them as I said authentic qalan nabi salallahu
alayhi wa sallam ma min ahadin yatawadha fayuhsinul
wudu yuhsinul wudu kul udhu thalath marat you
wash every part three times fayuhsinul wudu wa
yusalli rakaatayn so in this third hadith he
mentioned again two rakaats so which means that
the minimum number is two rakaats wa yusalli
rakaatayn yuqbilu bikalbihi wa wajhihi alayhima khushu' utarkiz
illa wajabat lahul jannah Allahu Akbar illa wajabat
lahul aljannah so in this hadith Rasulallah sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam said if any Muslim any
Muslim performs ablution well then stands and prays
two rakaats sitting above them with his heart
as well as his face he is masha
'Allah trying to do them with full khushu'
and full concentration he is not turning his
face around while praying and also he is
trying to focus with his intention he is
not thinking about something else which is as
I said difficult but we can try but
what will be the reward two rakaats only
what will be the reward this is a
beautiful hadith ya khwar at the end Rasulallah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said paradise paradise is
guaranteed for him guaranteed for him if this
hadith was not sahih I wouldn't share it
with you but this is a beautiful reward
for two rakaats as I said the secret
here is to do them with full khushu'
and concentration right, so the first step is
to perform wudu' well the second step you
do these two rakaats with full khushu' and
concentration and then what will happen jannah is
guaranteed but in the hadith of Bilal because
he prayed maybe many rakaats but he didn't
mention khushu' and concentration so maybe this is
another way of doing sunnatul wudu' so the
ulema said that these two rakaats are always
recommended after wudu' at all times including the
times of prohibition between asr and maghrib between
fajr and sunrise we're not supposed to do
nafila but this has a specific reason you
made wudu' so it's like tahiyyatul masjid coming
inside the masjid during a time of prohibition
between asr and maghrib it's a time of
prohibition but there is a specific reason for
you there is a good reason for you
to perform two rakaats so here making wudu'
the ulema they said this is a good
reason for you to earn the reward of
these two rakaats so you can do it
even during times of prohibition and we had
the proof of bilal he said anytime, I
used to do it anytime and rasulallah s
.a.w. approved it he didn't say anything
he didn't say you shouldn't be careful you
have to be careful bilal, you're not supposed
to pray between asr and maghrib or between
fajr and sunrise, right?
so they are like the greeting of their
status, the status of the sunnah is like
tahiyyatul masjid the greeting for the masjid the
prayer that is done to greet the masjid
which means which means they are not sought
for themselves that means if you decide to
pray another prayer, offer another prayer of sunnatul
wudu' the ulema they said most likely you
get the reward of sunnatul wudu' so here
when they talk about combination, here we can
combine we can combine if you come to
the masjid you are allowed to pray another
prayer, and that's it the requirement of praying
tahiyyatul masjid is not there anymore, it's waived
you don't have to do tahiyyatul masjid, someone
came to me after a few days ago
and he said oh I prayed, I came
late and I prayed with you guys do
I have to make up tahiyyatul masjid I
said no because you came inside, we were
praying dhuhr or asr or maghrib I think
it was maghrib, and that's enough and for
sunnatul wudu' same thing, if you make wudu'
and you decide to pray salatul duha this
will suffice it will be sufficient for the
sunnatul wudu' you don't have to do sunnatul
wudu' but if you want to do sunnatul
wudu' and pray duha, that's fine your reward
will be multiplied you get the reward of
two doing sunnatul wudu' the sunnah prayer for
wudu' two rak'ahs, and then another two
rak'ahs or four rak'ahs for duha
prayer which is good more reward, more hasanat
but if you do another prayer, instead of
sunnatul wudu' most likely the ulama they said,
you will be able to get the reward
of sunnatul wudu' especially if you have the
sunnatul wudu' in mind, have it in mind
after you finish your wudu' maybe I don't
have time, I'll just do duha I'll just
do this sunnah before dhuhr, I don't have
time for sunnatul wudu' but you have it
in mind, then insha'Allah you get the
reward of sunnatul wudu' so again, the conclusion
is that the sunnah is confirmed through, as
I said at least three authentic ahadith Bukhari
and Muslim and Sahih Muslim the third one
is Sahih Muslim and the number of rak
'ahs for this sunnah is two rak'ahs
sorry the minimum number for this sunnah is
to do is to offer two rak'ahs
but if you want to offer four six,
eight that's fine, that is your choice and
this is what Bilal used to do Bilal
did not give us a number but that
was his practice we said that it has
to be done immediately after wudu' otherwise it
is not called sunnatul wudu' it will be
called nafila just unrestricted nafila mutlaqal nafila nafila
mutlaqa just a nafila prayer it's not sunnatul
wudu' because it's not done immediately after wudu'
and we said if a person decides to
pray another prayer then he might get inshallah
the extra reward of offering two rak'ahs
for sunnatul wudu' so this is what is
after about sunnatul wudu' now we will talk
about salatul hajjah the prayer of need and
the story here is different it's a different
story but we have to, we need to
focus tonight because there is a problem with
the salat of need salatul hajjah, there is
a problem with it the way it is
described in some ahadith, but there is an
alternative, so I want you to pay attention
to these ahadith and I pay attention to
the alternative right the story is different sunnatul
wudu' all of them are authentic ahadith now
salatul hajjah was mentioned in the way it
was described in some ahadith the way the
answer is given to people in some websites
and some books was mentioned in four ahadith
two of them two of them are fabricated
fabricated two of them most likely two of
them are very weak, the other two are
very weak so I need to talk about
these ahadith because they are on the internet
they are on social media platforms they are
found in some books so I have to
mention, we have to look into these ahadith
the first fabricated hadith mentioned that the prayer
of need is to be performed in 12
rakahs you have a need sorry you have
a need so you need to make dua
ask Allah subhana wa ta'ala to fulfill
your need a family member is sick you
have a major exam are you starting a
business anything that you need to do so
the hadith says that you need to pray
12 rakahs that's the first hadith the other
three ahadith he mentioned two rakahs one of
them did not mention two rakahs I don't
know why the ulama said two rakahs because
I didn't find the two rakahs in one
hadith but the dua is there so anyway
when we say fabricated when we say fabricated
we need to know that the one who
fabricated the hadith is a liar so the
ulama of hadith call him kaddab matruk, matruk
he was rejected no one pays attention to
his narrations he's not qualified to be a
narrator of hadith he used to fabricate stories
and those who used to fabricate this ahadith
in our history they used to do it
for different goals different purposes everyone has his
own some of them used to do it
for political reasons like two groups or two
states are in conflict and then one of
them will create will fabricate a hadith to
support his party or his leader or his
state against the other state political reasons some
of them used to do them for sectarian
reasons shia against sunnah for example especially the
shia they are good at fabricating a hadith
about the family of the prophet until now
if you listen and you understand arabic and
you listen to some lectures from shia imams
in iraq and some countries ya latif stories
that are impossible to believe with no sanad
no sanad, just stories and people are happy
they are amazed and impressed it's horrible people
playing with the deen of allah subhana wa
ta'ala but rasul allah said in a
hadith some of them used to do it
fabricate a hadith for to make some material
some worldly game like he would be a
businessman selling something selling chicken for example he
would fabricate a hadith about the excellence of
eating the meat of the chicken some of
them used to do it to support their
own imams like we had some people who
fabricated a hadith about the excellence of imam
shafi other people fabricated a hadith about the
excellence and the status of imam abu hanifa
and so on and so forth some of
them had a good intention and yet it
will not be accepted from them their good
intention they said we are not making lies
against the prophet we are fabricating this hadith
to support his mission to support his sunnah,
it's a good intention but on the day
of judgment it will not be accepted it's
a major problem why?
because we have this mutawatir hadith mutawatir meaning
the highest level of acceptance and authenticity the
riwayah that I have for you from al
-bukhari al-bukhari has a complete chapter about
this so rasulallah s.a.w. said
in this hadith, whoever intentionally ascribes to me
what I have not said then surely let
him occupy his place in jahannam then surely
let him occupy his place in jahannam, someone
who fabricates a story about rasulallah s.a
.w. like tonight the matter is a little
bit confusing and I'll tell you why it's
confusing for some people, I'm not confused about
it but I'll because in some stories here
the duas are good but the story is
not authentic the duas are good, the meaning
are okay, they are accepted and some people
said oh we tried this salat and it
worked some people, this is how people are
sharing their stories on the internet, right?
so people get confused right?
so in this hadith here the hadith of
ibn mas'ud so first one, an ibn
mas'ud the problem is the one who
fabricated this hadith is attributing something to ibn
mas'ud he didn't say attributing to rasulallah
s.a.w. something that he did not
say, it's a big problem, right?
but the hadith looks like that, some people
will read it it will come to you
in this way that a sahabi narrated a
hadith from rasulallah s.a.w. and you
don't know it's fabricated and you share it
on whatsapp, share it on facebook you're happy,
this is amazing hadith, it's a beautiful hadith
brother, read it try to benefit from it
on instagram, facebook, you don't know that you're
sharing a fabricated hadith so here two rak
'ahs that you pray at night or day
and recite the tashahud between each two rak
'ahs so after each two rak'ahs you
make tashahud without salam make tashahud and then
you stand up another two rak'ahs, make
tashahud stand up until you complete twelve reciting
surah al-fatiha seven times so
he said when you recite tashahud at the
end of the prayer so at the end
of the prayer in the last tashahud then
praise Allah send blessings and peace upon the
prophet s.a.w. recite surah al-fatiha
seven times in sujood while in sujood so
after you make tashahud you do sujood and
you recite surah al-fatiha seven times it's
a very weird prayer while you are in
the state of sujood and say ten times
surah al-fatiha is a beautiful surah some
people will say ok, what's wrong with that?
it's a beautiful surah there is a big
problem here because Rasulallah s.a.w. said
don't read Quran in sujood we'll talk about
it but some people will say oh it's
a beautiful surah, seven times there's nothing wrong
with that it's a great form of dhikr
what's wrong with that?
well there is something what is wrong with
that is that Rasulallah s.a.w. did
not say this did not tell us did
not give this guidance to his ummah you're
lying against the Prophet s.a.w. then
he said and this dua is controversial so
he said after you do all this you
say oh Allah I ask you by the
glory of your throne here the glory of
your throne the throne is controversial some ulema
accepted this dua some of them did not
accept this dua because they said at the
end the throne is Allah's creation we're not
supposed to seek nearness to Allah s.w
.t or supplicate with the glory of his
throne because the throne is the creation of
Allah so we should stay away from this
dua because of this problem here the mercy
of your book by your greatest name by
your highest majesty by your perfect words then
name your need ya Allah I'm making exam
help me with the exam, help me with
this help me with this and raise your
head and say salam right and left Imam
Nujawzi said this hadith there is no doubt
that this hadith is fabricated one of the
narrators in the chain of narration is a
liar or a fabricator Zahabi, Imam Zayla'i
all of them agreed with Imam Nujawzi all
these three classical scholars all of them said
this hadith is fabricated as I said one
of the problems in this hadith is reciting
the Quran while you are in the state
of sujood seven times, al-fatihah while Rasulullah
s.a.w. has forbidden the ummah to
recite Quran in sujood we have a famous
hadith from Ali ibn Abi Talib in which
he said nahani Rasulullah s.a.w an
aqra'a raka'an aw sajidan Ali ibn
Abi Talib this hadith is sahih muslim is
sahih muslim he said Ali ibn Abi Talib
the messenger of Allah has forbidden me or
forbade me to recite Quran while bowing or
prostrating while in the state of ruku' while
doing ruku' or doing sujood Ali ibn Abi
Talib he said Rasulullah s.a.w. said
do not read Quran how about making dua'
you take a dua' from the Quran and
you use it in your sujood is that
permissible or not na'am it's permissible right
do you agree with that because many brothers
are confused about that it is permissible because
you are not reciting Quran you are not
reciting Quran you are making a dua' you
like this dua' you took it from the
Quran you want to use it in your
sujood that's fine there is no problem with
that you shouldn't ask this question because your
intention is not to recite Quran your intention
is to make dua' then this should be
accepted by Ibn Allah ta'ala Nabi s
.a.w. said he said the closest or
the nearest servant comes closer to his lord
is when he is prostrating when he is
in the state of sujood increase your dua'
that is the recommendation of our Prophet Muhammad
s.a.w. that's why in our salat
here we try sometimes to spend some extra
time in sujood what is the purpose is
to make some extra dua' so we can
benefit from our salat because we believe that
this salat that we are doing is the
best investment for our akhira so spend some
extra seconds, minutes with your salat, instead of
doing salat al-dhuhr in 7 minutes do
it in 10 minutes, 3 minutes is not
going to kill you 3 extra minutes is
not going to ruin your schedule for the
day another extra 3-2 minutes in salat
al-asr is not going to affect your
business or your life I mean we go
outside and we spend hours and hours with
social media, with our phones right, so spend
some extra time while doing sujood and increase
your dua' that is the recommendation of our
Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. but we are
not allowed or we are not, yes, we
are not allowed to make dua' in ruku'
in the state of ruku' with one exception
istighfar, there is one one of the expressions
of dhikr in ruku' that has a dua'
of istighfar the second hadith as I said,
the hadith does not include 2 rak'as,
but I don't know why some scholars they
said you do it with 2 rak'as,
but the hadith itself doesn't mention 2 rak
'as but it is fabricated again it is
fabricated but the words of the dua' are
ok are ok, so in this hadith this
is hadith from Abdullah ibn Abbas radiallahu anhu
qala qala rasulullah s.a.w. ja'ani
jibreel alayhi salam bi da'awatin fa qala
idha nazala bika amrun min amri dunyaka fa
qaddim hunna qaddim hadhi da'awat thumma sal
hajatak ya badi'a as-samawati wal-ardhi
ya zaljalali wal-ikram there is nothing wrong
with that ya sarikha al-mustasrikhin ya ghiyatha
al-mustaghithin it is ok to use this
dua' ya kashifa al-su'i ya arham
al-rahimin ya mujeeba da'wati al-muttarrin
ya ilaha al-alamin bika unzilu hajati wa
anta a'lamu biha faqbiha so the hadith
is fabricated right but the dua' because we
have the flexibility to use our own duas
right, that's why we are allowed to use
the dua' of someone else made by someone
else but the problem is you cannot, this
is very important you are not allowed to
narrate a fabricated hadith except in one case
when you tell people it is fabricated like
we are doing here tonight otherwise you are
not allowed to share it with other people
without telling them it is a fabricated hadith
especially if you know if you know that
it is fabricated so this is the ruling
about fabricated hadith we have the obligation to
tell people this hadith is fabricated this story
did not exist, Rasulallah s.a.w. did
not say this hadith and he told me
this and that you are not allowed to
do that except in one case if you
are willing to tell people I want you
to pay attention to this be careful this
hadith is fabricated in this case, yes so
in this hadith, Ibn Abbas s.a.w.
said the messenger of Allah s.a.w.
said, this is how it came Jibreel s
.a.w. came to me with some du
'as and supplications and said Jibreel told the
Prophet s.a.w. of course he didn't
tell him because the story is not true
but this is how the story is narrated
when some worldly matters before you say these
words first then ask for what you need
oh creator of the heavens and the earth
as I said, the words of the hadith
are ok the words of the du'a
are ok not like the first one it
has some parts that are controversial the hadith
of Ibn Abbas s.a.w. but this
one, the words are ok, you can use
them if you want you hear, you will
hear some imams in Salat al-Tarawih in
Ramadan in du'a al-Qunut in Ramadan
using these terms because they believe that these
terms are ok these du'as and supplications
are fine even though the story itself is
not true so oh creator of the heavens
and the earth there is nothing wrong with
that oh possessor of majesty and honor it's
a beautiful praise of Allah s.w.t
oh helper of those who cry for help
oh helper of those who seek help oh
reliever of calamity oh most merciful of those
who show mercy oh answerer of the call
of the one who is in distress oh
God of the universe to you I show
my need you know best about it so
fulfill it so this is the story that
we have in this hadith the third hadith
I cannot say it's fabricated but it was
classified as very weak very weak right, why?
because one of the narrators of the hadith
90% of the scholars of hadith he
said he's not qualified to narrate a hadith
to be one of the narrators of the
hadith 10% of the scholars they said
oh he could be fine if there is
another narrator who supports his narration so he
needs someone to support his narration, right?
so I don't want to mention his name
because this is not a specialized class, if
we are studying hadith I would mention his
name and tell you about his biography because
we are not studying mustalah al hadith so
there is no need to mention his name
but what is more important is to know
that this hadith is very weak and this
is the most famous hadith that you find
on the internet when people ask about salat
al haja the hadith of Abdullah ibn Abi
Awfa so the sahabi, the first sahabi is
Abdullah ibn Mas'ud, we said we need
to stay away from the dua because it's
controversial itself, second one Abdullah ibn Abbas right?
we said the story is fabricated but the
words of the dua are okay are fine,
here is very weak and this is the
hadith of Abdullah ibn Abi Awfa, so he
said based on what he said qala qala
Rasulullah we are not sure if Rasulullah said
it or not but this is the hadith
man kanat lahu ila Allahi hajatun aw ila
ahadin min bani adam fal yatawadha fal yuhsinil
wudhu thummal yusalli rakatain, thummal yuthni ala Allah,
thummal yusalli ala nabi salallahu alaihi wa sallam
thummal yaqul la ilaha illa Allah alhalimul kareem
so basically in this hadith supposedly allahu a
'lam, Abdullah ibn Abi Awfa sahabi radiallahu anhu
narrated this hadith from Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa
sallam he said if anyone whoever has a
need from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala or
from one of his creation let him make
wudhu and perform wudhu very well, then pray
two rakats let him pray two rakats and
then let him praise Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala and then send his blessings and peace
upon the Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam, durud
salat ala Rasulullah and then let him say
la ilaha illa Allah alhalimul kareem, it's a
beautiful statement la ilaha illa Allah alhalimul kareem,
there is no worthy of worship except Allah,
the forbearing alkareem, the most generous alhalim, the
forbearing alkareem, the most generous subhanallahi rabbil arshil
azeem glory be to you to Allah, the
lord of the mighty throne beautiful statement alhamdulillahi
rabbil alameen you're familiar with it all praise
is due to Allah, lord of the universe
as'aluka mujibati rahmatik wa azaima maghfiratik it's
a beautiful dua that is found in other
duas I ask you I ask you for
the means of your mercy and forgiveness, beautiful
statement I ask you for the means of
your mercy and forgiveness wal ghanimata min kulli
birr, and I ask you the benefits of
every good deed wa salamata min kulli ithman,
I ask you for safety from all sins
la tadali dhanban illa ghafarta do not leave
for me any sin except that you forgive
it for me, wa la hamman illa farrashta,
and no hardship except that you relieve it
for me wa la hajatan haja that's why
we call it salat al haja haja is
need wa la hajatan hiya laka ridhan illa
qadaytaha ya arham al rahimeen and no need
that pleases you except that you fulfill it
for me, ya arham al rahimeen, oh most
merciful of those who show mercy so all
the terms are good but the hadith by
looking at the chain of transmission is very
weak this is the number three, number four
hadith of anas, so four sahabi's here as
I said the most famous one, if you
ask about salat al haja you will find
the hadith of abdullah ibn awfa that I
mentioned now on the internet but this one
from anas ibn malik again another dua, long
dua after you make wudhu and you pray
two rakaats and you praise allah subhana wa
ta'ala you send peace and blessings upon
the prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam you make
istighfar for yourself for the believing man and
believing woman and then you say this dua,
a long dua, here there is no need
to, I don't want you to, you know,
it's ok, another long dua and then you
ask allah subhana wa ta'ala to fulfill
your need this hadith is very weak the
problem with this hadith some ulama they said
it's munkar, when they say munkar, the chain
of narration is very weak, there are narrators
in the chain of narration they are not
identified they don't know their identity they don't
know who they are so that's why they
cannot accept this hadith, even if the dua
itself is ok is fine, now what is
the alternative, if I tell you do not
use this hadith for salat you see, you
are able to recognize the difference between the
ahadith of sunnatul wudhu and the ahadith of
salatul haja there is a big difference or
not big difference right?
the other three ahadith, bukhari and muslim sahih
muslim, mashallah all of them are authentic and
beautiful, but these ones big problems so that's
why some ulama they said there is no
salatul haja that is prescribed by rasulallah salallahu
alaihi wasallam or the way that is prescribed
or described I would say described in these
ahadith we cannot confirm it based on these
ahadith some of them, like the hadith of
abdullah ibn abi awfa, some of them I
disagree with them but they said the weakness
is light and we accept weak ahadith with
a light weakness in fadha'il al a'mal
fadha'il al a'mal means things that are
not major pillars of ibadah, salatul haja but
still salatul haja, you are talking about a
separate ibadah here and the hadith the weakness
of the hadith is not light, it's very
weak so that's why I shouldn't we shouldn't
pay attention to these ahadith especially number one
and number two, they are fabricated what is
the alternative?
you are a muslim and you want to
achieve something you need help from Allah you
are dealing with an emergency what is the
alternative?
the alternative, we have it we have the
alternative in the sunnah of our prophet muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wasallam the hadith says so and
hudayfa ibn al yaman and hudayfa ibn al
yaman and this hadith is a good hadith
it's found in sahih abu dawood it's found
in other sources from hajar al asqalani he
said it's a good hadith it is accepted,
it is sound that whenever the prophet was
distressed by anything he would pray the hadith
doesn't mention a specific number of rakahs, does
not mention a specific dua and this is
confirmed by the quran surah ayah 45 in
surah al baqarah seek help through patience and
salah and prayer that was the sunnah of
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam whenever he deals with
an emergency he would make wudu and pray
without any specific number of rakahs without any
specific dua even though he had many beautiful
dua's that are found in hassan al muslim
for example or found in other sources of
dua you can find them many supplications that
you can use if you want to memorize
them so but the hadith which says that
Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam used to seek help
he used to seek Allah's help and assistance
through salah did not mention specific dua that
is my point here so you can use
any dua and it will be salatul haja
following the sunnah of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam
Ya Allah I want this I want this
I need your help with this I need
your assistance regarding this people have different issues
nowadays no one has a perfect life we
all have our own challenges and struggles we
all especially these days with all this technology
and money and wealth that we have as
humans we are struggling parents are struggling with
their children sometimes husband and wife they don't
get along business is not doing well many
many issues some people have problems with their
own parents with siblings with anything someone who
is like giving them hard time at work
so it could be anything this life will
never be perfect it's impossible this is how
Allah created this life that's why you need
to always empower yourself through dua and supplications
you need to get closer to Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala through dhikr and dua have
a close relationship with Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala and the more you get used to
these duas and supplications it will become easy
for you to remember and you say it
you don't have to wait and come to
the masjid and raise your hand and make
dua while you're driving, while you're going shopping
in a shopping center you can make it
people are buying and selling and you are
remembering Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala why?
because you made it a habit you built
this habit this is how you build a
close relationship with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
as I said the three last ahadith you
can use their dua, the supplications that are
there because they are ok but you need
to keep in mind that the first two
are fabricated the second two are very weak
now the question is that I have what
is the difference between salatul istikhara and salatul
haja some people are confused about the difference
between the two salats salatul istikhara and salatul
haja can someone tell us?
tell us about the difference between the two
so the translation salatul haja, prayer of need
salatul istikhara, translation in English is the prayer
of for guidance, prayer for guidance for seeking
guidance and counsel yes it's a need but
you do salatul istikhara when you are confused
about a decision you didn't recognize that this
is what you want but you're not sure
about it maybe you need it, you want
to do it but you're not sure but
salatul haja, you're comfortable you want what you
are asking for you want it, you need
it right, that's the difference but salatul haja
as I said through the other ahadith is
not confirmed so whenever you are dealing with
an emergency or you need something just pray
and then you don't do salatul istikhara but
salatul istikhara you do it when you are
confused should you go marry this girl or
not should you go should you buy this
car or not should you take this job
accept this job or not should you start
this business or not should you like invest
in crypto bitcoin and ethereum and all the
other quints and their cousins should you maybe
need to make istikhara should you open an
account, rsp account with so and so or
with this company so different things that you
are not sure they are good for you
or not here you pray salatul istikhara the
second difference is salatul istikhara is well confirmed
through a hadith that is found in sahih
al bukhari salatul istikhara is well confirmed a
hadith is found in sahih al bukhari but
salatul hazia the way it was described in
the four hadith is not confirmed what is
confirmed is salat in itself without any specific
dua, without any specific number of rakas, i
don't want you to be confused that's why
i will i will try to come up
with a chart at the end of this
program whether it is next week or the
week after you still have to talk about
the night prayer and salatul winter and i
will tell you about some other prayers that
are not confirmed too salatul hazia sometimes some
people on the internet they call it salatul
tayseer what is tayseer is making things easy
from al yusr yusr is ease, right so
when they talk about salatul tayseer, they mean
salatul hazia, but now you have full knowledge
about it, right it's not something that is
prescribed in a certain form with a certain
dua it is a salat that you do
whenever you need help from allah subhana wa
ta'ala and that's it following the sunnah
of rasul allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam i
think we should stop here let you go
and enjoy the warmth of your homes but
if you have questions we can deal with
your questions tonight for 5-10 minutes and
then we go inshallah go home i
don't know what are the other two options
here, either you buy or you don't buy,
right, so basically it's one issue, istikhara is
about buying this car, so asking allah subhana
wa ta'ala to help you make the
right decision use the same dua, you know
the dua, you are familiar with the dua
of istikhara, yeah it's found in sahih al
-bukhari, it's found in hasan al-muslim, widely
available you can, even if you memorize it,
you can print it out and you recite
it, right but here is one thing telling
allah subhana wa ta'ala if you know
that me buying this car is something good
for me, then help me with it, and
make it easy for me but if you
know that this car is not good for
me, then keep me away from it, basically
it's one thing, right so you are not
sure, you want to make a decision the
right decision about this car especially if it
is used, you don't know what is in
it if it is new, maybe the if
you have money the decision will be easier,
right the new car, but if it is
used, you don't know what is inside even
if you take it to a mechanic, you
will never be sure hundred percent, so istikhara
would be good, in this case yes, fadhal
fadhal, pardon sinful?
no, it's not sinful which one give me
an example yeah, so you will not be
sinful for missing sunnah al muakkadah the ratiba
of dhuhr the ratiba prayer that you do
before dhuhr but rasulallah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
if he missed it before salat al dhuhr,
he would do it after dhuhr, so he
would pray six rakahs after dhuhr the two,
ba'diyah ba'diyah after dhuhr, and the other four,
which he was supposed to do before dhuhr,
if he missed them before dhuhr, he would
do them after dhuhr, right, so you always
have time, you know to make up those
sunnah, but if you miss them on purpose,
you will not be sinful because what is
obligatory upon you is the five, five daily
prayers, we have proof for that we mentioned
the proof in the beginning, the first halaqa
I guess, right they said, some of them,
they said if you insist on missing some
young people by the way, there are young
people, one of our I would say some
of our young people, I wouldn't say all
of them, some of our young people on
purpose did not pray sunnah prayer so, some
ulama they said they could be blamed by
rasulallah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam for missing his
sunnah on purpose on the day of judgement,
blamed but they would not be punished for
it because it was not an obligation some
of them went too far, they said if
someone insists on missing the sunnah al muakkadah
he is a muslim fasiq, ya'ni it
will affect his status in the sight of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and it's a
very strong term a very strong term, right
these statements are not confirmed by all the
ulama because if something Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala did not make it mandatory why you
would be blamed by missing something that is
not mandatory, but they said a good muslim
would not do it a good muslim would
always try to, ya'ni get closer to
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala through these voluntary
prayers and by the way, if you have
some problems with the obligatory prayers, then these
prayer will fix your problems, shortcomings on the
day of judgment, it will protect actually your
salat on the day of judgment and of
course for every sajdah, masha'Allah your rank
is, ranking is raised by one degree and
one sin is raised for you, so masha
'Allah, the rewards are you know, are amazing
the rewards are amazing you wanna say something?
making sujood, making dua in a different language
in your sujood the opinion that I believe
that I follow, that it is permissible this
is the opinion that I share with people
the reason, because there are two opinions the
reason for the reason I believe this could
be or should be the most correct opinion
number one Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala knows
all the languages number two not all prophets
and messengers used to speak Arabic language we
have only four prophets who used to speak
the Arabic language, so all the other prophets
and messengers used to communicate with Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala in a different language, but
Allah told us about their story in the
Quran quoting their duas and supplications in Arabic
but they used to many of them communicate
with Allah in different languages and number three
could be, is not fair for someone who
does not speak the Arabic, tell him it's
haram to make dua in sujood, I mean
if we have a proof that it's haram,
yeah of course we have to follow it,
but these are matters of ijtihad, ulama trying
to reach a conclusion about it using their
own ijtihad so it's not fair for someone
who doesn't speak Arabic, you tell him you're
not allowed to use another language how about
if he has something he wants to express
himself, he wants to talk to Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala, he doesn't know any Arabic
dua for his own situation right, that fits
into fits with his own situation, so we
tell him alhamdulillah there is no problem with
that, you can use another language whether in
faridah or naafilah so people, some people are
confused should we use another language in faridah
or naafilah, in both prayers inshallah your dua
will be accepted by Allah, you're talking to
Allah who knows all the languages but of
course after you say subhanahu wa ta'ala
and you use like prescribed words of dhikr
in your sujood of course we're not supposed
to do dua you can
combine it if
you make wudu, like in the wudu area
you come inside the masjid before dhuhr you're
supposed to do four rakahs before dhuhr right,
let's say you decide to ignore sunnatul wudu
and you do the ratiba, most likely you
get the reward of sunnatul wudu because you
don't have to do it now because you're
doing a prayer it's the same ruling regarding
tahiyyatul masjid you're allowed to pray the four
rakahs before dhuhr and that's it, but if
you want to do extra prayers, like let's
say you do sunnatul wudu of course here,
I'm not sure if you do sunnatul tahiyyatul
masjid you're supposed to do sunnatul wudu after
that I'm not sure about it this mas
'ala, I'm not sure about it but let's
say you decide to do sunnatul wudu and
then the four rakahs, that's fine you get
the reward of six rakahs sunnatul wudu and
the four rakahs before dhuhr right so when
the ulama talk about combination or combining between
two intentions, this is what they mean they
talk about these these kind of prayers sisters,
you don't have questions, right?
they understand everything fadhal after
he made wudu I didn't say two rakahs
he said I prayed whatever Allah has decreed
for me to pray so he didn't mention
a specific number it could be four, could
be six, could be eight but he said
at all times it's not sinful because it
has a specific reason which is wudu and
Rasulallah s.a.w. approved it, he didn't
say anything if Rasulallah s.a.w. approved
something, that means it's halal it's permissible, is
that clear?
if Rasulallah s.a.w. approves it that
means it is good to do, right?
fadhal we'll finish at nine fadhal to
pass it with the condition that you tell
them it's fabricated some people pass
this they share this hadith to make fun
of them like the story is funny or
weird some of them they I mean, when
we study sometimes, you know, if we have
a specialized class about hadith, for example so
we need to give examples yeah, this is
salatul hajj I needed to talk about this
hadith, why?
because I'm sure that people have access to
this kind of stories and hadith online so
I needed to say, like, these hadith are
fabricated, and alhamdulillah I'm relieved from any responsibility
now, because I told you that they are
fabricated the problem is when you keep quiet
about about their status that's a problem I'll
tell you the problem the problem is, sometimes
the story is amazing beautiful, something like that
so people, they said don't tell me it's
fabricated, I want to share it because they
feel the story is beautiful, it's so beautiful
so they want to share it it is
a big problem there is another hadith in
which Rasulallah ﷺ said if I'm not mistaken,
he said anyone who shares a lie against
me while knowing that it is a lie
while knowing that it is a lie فَإِنَّهُ
أَحَدُ الْكَاذِبِينَ he would be one of the
liars one of those who fabricated stories against
Rasulallah ﷺ it's a very dangerous you know,
subject people have to be careful طيب we're
done جزاكم الله خير if Allah will meet
next week and most likely we'll talk about
night prayer and winter next week if we
have more time we'll talk about some other
prayers like salat al-tasabih and maybe some
other prayers inshallah بارك الله فيكم بس الله
سبحانه وتعالى أن يفتح لنا ولكم أبواب رحمته
سبحانك اللهم و بحمدك أشهد أن لا إله
إلا أنت أستغفرك وأتوب إليك