The Meaning of the Hadith: “He Steals from His Prayer”
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Question:
May Allah reward you. A listener sent in a question, saying that he read a hadith from our Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in which he says that a person steals from his prayer. He asks about the meaning of this hadith: how does one steal from his prayer?
Answer:
It means he diminishes his prayer, so he does not complete its bowing or prostration, nor the tranquility in it. This is the worst of people in terms of theft, as in the hadith:Mishkat al-Masabih 885 Yes.
May Allah reward you. A listener sent in a question, saying that he read a hadith from our Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in which he says that a person steals from his prayer. He asks about the meaning of this hadith: how does one steal from his prayer?
Answer:
It means he diminishes his prayer, so he does not complete its bowing or prostration, nor the tranquility in it. This is the worst of people in terms of theft, as in the hadith:
The one who commits the worst theft is he who steals from his prayer.
اسوا الناس سرقه الذي يسرق من صلاته.
Source
قناة «إذاعة القرآن الكريم»، نور على الدرب مع معالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان ح7581 — youtube.com (9:19)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.