Tag Archives: Salah

August, 2017

• 1 August

  Meaning of part of a Hadith on eclipse

  Question Regarding Salatul Kusuf [Salah performed during an eclipse], what is the meaning of these words in Sahih Muslim, ‘Yukhaw wifullaahu bihima ibadah’?

July, 2017

• 25 July

  Saying Allahu Akbar after terminating the Fard Salah

  Question Is it authentically proven that Rasulullah (sallallahu’alayhi wasallam) said ‘Allahu Akbar’ after every Taslim of the five daily Salahs? Is it a standing Sunnah to do so as many Imams do not do so?
• 22 July

  Leaning on one leg in Salah

  Question In Sunan Nasai, there is a chapter ‘As saffu baynal qadamayn‘. There is a narration under this chapter wherein Sayyiduna ‘Abdullah ibn Mas’ud (radiyallahu ‘anhu) said that murawahah is better. Is the Hadith authentic and what does murawahah mean?
• 20 July

  If a person’s Salah and tongue are in order, all other deeds will be

  Question Who is this statement attributed to? خصلتان إذا صلحتا من العبد صلح ما سواهما من أمره: صلاته ولسانه
• 7 July

  Some narrations on the latecomer joining the Salah

  Question Can this narration be quoted? It is narrated that Nabi (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) said: “When you come to join the prayer and find us in prostration, then you should join in the prostration but should not count this prostration as a part of your prayer. Whoever joins late but completes one unit of the prayer, before the Imam …
• 3 July

  A fabricated narration on sleeping before offering ‘Isha Salah

  Question Is this a Hadith? “When a person falls asleep before offering ‘Isha Salah, two Angels stand by him and say, ‘[Perform your] Salah.’ [When he doesn’t awaken], they give up and say, ‘The loser is asleep and he refuses to awaken.'”

June, 2017

• 30 June

  Nabi (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) would eat dates before proceeding for ‘Eid Salah

  Question Is this Hadith authentic? “On the Day of ‘Eidul Fitr, Nabi (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) would not go out until he had eaten some dates.” Another version states that he would eat an odd number of dates.
• 8 June

  Offering the two rak’ahs after Witr while seated

  Question Is there any authentic Hadith regarding the permissibility of performing the two rak’ah Sunnah/Nafl after Witr, while sitting as many ‘Ulama in my area do?
• 6 June

  Sayyiduna ‘Umar’s view about the Friday khutbah

  Question What is the status of this Hadith and where is it found reported by Sayyidunaa Umar (radiyallahu’anhu)? انما جعلت الخطبة موضع الركتين, من فاتته الخطبة صلى اربعا

May, 2017

• 30 May

  Prostration of a female

  Question Can this be quoted? Yazid Ibn Abi Habib states that Nabi (sallallahu ‘alayhi wasallam) passed two women who were performing their prayer. He said to them: “When you prostrate, make part of your body touch the ground because a woman is unlike a man in these aspects.”
• 29 May

  Greeting twenty people after Fajr Salah

  Question I have heard a Hadith that if a person makes salam to twenty people when he leaves the Masjid after reading Fajr in congregation, and he passes away on the same day, he will be forgiven. Is this authentic?
• 10 May

  The practice of Ummud Darda when commencing salah

  Question Can this be quoted and is the reference correct? Abd Rabbihi Ibn Sulayman said, I saw Umm Darda (A lady companion – may Allah be pleased with her) in the time of starting the prayer she used to raise her hands up to the shoulders. Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah.
• 8 May

  The Hadith, ‘Allah does not accept the Salah of a man who trails his lower garment’

  Question Is this Hadith authentic and is the reference correct? Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (radiyallahu ‘anhu) reported: The Messenger of Allah (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) said to a man who was performing Salah while his lower garment was below his ankles, “Go and perform your wudu again.” That man went and came back having performed it. The Messenger of Allah (sallallahu …