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What are the signs of Laylatul-Qadr (the Night of Decree)?
Read more: What are the signs of Laylatul-Qadr (the Night of Decree)?بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم 1) In the narration of ‘Ubayy b. Ka’b: أَنَّهَا تَطْلُعُ يَوْمَئِذٍ لاَ شُعَاعَ لَهَا … on that day (the sun) would rise without having any rays. (Sahīh Muslim 762) In a variant wording: مِثْلَ الطَّسْتِ حتى ترتفعَ … resembling a dish, until it becomes high. (Ibn Khuzaymah 2193. Declared Sahīh lighayrihi…
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The Night Prayer: Part 3 – Praying Two Rak’ah after Witr
Read more: The Night Prayer: Part 3 – Praying Two Rak’ah after Witrبسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Hadīth 1. كنَّا مع رسولِ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عليه وسلَّمَ في سَفَرٍ، فقالَ: إنَّ هذا السَّفَرَ جَهْدٌ وثِقَلٌ؛ فإذا أَوتَرَ أحَدُكم، فليَركَعْ رَكعتَينِ، فإنِ استَيقَظَ، وإلَّا كانتَا له Thawbān narrated: We were with the Messenger of Allāh (ﷺ) on a journey, and he said: This journey is a struggle and a…
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The Night Prayer – Part 2: The Virtues of the Night Prayer
Read more: The Night Prayer – Part 2: The Virtues of the Night Prayerبسم الله الرحمن الرحيم The virtues of the night prayer 1) The prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said: أَفْضَلُ الصَّلَاةِ بَعْدَ الصَّلَاةِ المَكْتُوبَةِ الصَّلَاةُ في جَوْفِ اللَّيْلِ The best of prayers after those prescribed are those prayed in the depth of the night. (Sahīh Muslim 1163) 2) The prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said: نِعْمَ…
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The Night Prayer – Part 1: The difference between tarawīh, tahajjud, qiyām al-layl
Read more: The Night Prayer – Part 1: The difference between tarawīh, tahajjud, qiyām al-laylبسم الله الرحمن الرحيم The night prayer or salāt al-layl refers to the voluntary night prayer whose time extends from after ‘ishā prayer until fajr (dawn). Other names of the night prayer include: Qiyām al-layl (standing at night) Tahajjud (remaining awake) Tarawīh (resting) Witr (odd-numbered) (Lisān al-‘Arab, taken from Qiyām and Tarawīh of Al-Albānī, prepared…
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Ramadān Series: Part 7 – The Night Prayer; what is it, the virtues, the timing, the no. of rak’ah
Read more: Ramadān Series: Part 7 – The Night Prayer; what is it, the virtues, the timing, the no. of rak’ahبسم الله الرحمن الرحيم The meaning of ‘night prayer’ The night prayer or salāt al-layl refers to the voluntary night prayer whose time extends from after ‘ishā prayer until fajr (dawn). Other names of the night prayer include: Qiyām al-layl (standing at night) Tahajjud (remaining awake) Tarawīh (resting) Witr (odd-numbered) (Lisān ul-arab) Shaykh Ibn Bāz…
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Explanation of “Whoever commits laghā then he has no Jumu’ah…”
Read more: Explanation of “Whoever commits laghā then he has no Jumu’ah…”بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Hadīth 1. The prophet (ﷺ) said: وَمَنْ لَغَا وَتَخَطَّى رِقَابَ النَّاسِ كَانَتْ لَهُ ظُهْرًا He who indulges in laghā (an evil act) or steps over the necks of people (in the mosque), that (Friday) will be for him like the noon (Dhuhr) prayer. (Abū Dawūd 347. Declared Hasan by Al-Albānī) Hadīth…
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Weak hadīth: Do not sleep after ‘Asr
Read more: Weak hadīth: Do not sleep after ‘Asrبسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Hadīth: من نام بعد العصر فاختلس عقله فلا يلومن إلا نفسه Whoever sleeps after ‘Asr and loses his mind, let him blame no one but himself. Shaykh Al-Albānī says: Weak. It was included by Ibn Hibbān in “al-Du’afā wal-Mujrahīn” (1/283) on the authority of Khālid bin Al-Qāsim, on the authority of…
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Is it permissible to rely on astronomical calculations for beginning of ramadān
Read more: Is it permissible to rely on astronomical calculations for beginning of ramadānبسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Imām Ibn Kathīr said: The Prophet (ﷺ) said, «إِنَّا أُمَّةٌ أُمِّيَّةٌ لَا نَكْتُبُ وَلَا نَحْسِبُ، الشَّهْرُ هكَذَا وَهكَذَا وَهكَذَا» We are an Ummi nation, neither writing nor calculating. The (lunar) month is like this, this and this (i.e. thirty or twenty-nine days). (Musnad Imām Ahmad 5017, 5137. And al-Fath of Ibn…
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‘Umar commands the people to pray 11 rak’ah for tarawīh
Read more: ‘Umar commands the people to pray 11 rak’ah for tarawīhبسم الله الرحمن الرحيم The prophet (ﷺ) said: “Verily he among you who lives long after me will see great discord, so you must hold to my Sunnah and to the Sunnah of the Khulafā ar-Rāshidīn (the rightly guided caliphs) after me (i.e. Abu Bakr, Umar, ‘Uthmān, ‘Alī). Cling to it firmly [literally: with your…
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