What is the ruling on one who boycotts and declares his brothers innovators if they pray more than eleven rak'ahs in the Tahajjud prayer?
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, some people nowadays boycott their brothers and declare them innovators for praying Tahajjud and adding to the eleven rak'ahs. Is their position correct?
Answer:
This is ignorance. This person is ignorant of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), who encouraged standing in night prayer and said that the night prayer is two by two, and he did not specify a specific number.
Yes, the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) did not exceed eleven or thirteen rak'ahs in Ramadan or otherwise. But what was the characteristic of the Messenger's (peace and blessings be upon him) prayer in Tahajjud? You cannot do it, nor I, nor anyone. No one can do the Messenger's (peace and blessings be upon him) night prayer, not even Hudhayfah, who prayed with him and was about to sit down because of the length of his prayer. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) stood until his feet cracked from the length of his standing.
Some people say, "The Messenger Yes, pray like the prayer of the Messenger and do not contradict it. But if you take the number and count off the prayer in a quarter of an hour or five minutes and say, 'This is the action of the Messenger,' that is not the action of the Messenger. [Al-Muzzammil 73:2-3] Half of it [Al-Muzzammil 73:3-4] This is the action of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). We will not be able to do the action of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), but we follow his example according to our ability. Yes."
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, some people nowadays boycott their brothers and declare them innovators for praying Tahajjud and adding to the eleven rak'ahs. Is their position correct?
Answer:
This is ignorance. This person is ignorant of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), who encouraged standing in night prayer and said that the night prayer is two by two, and he did not specify a specific number.
Yes, the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) did not exceed eleven or thirteen rak'ahs in Ramadan or otherwise. But what was the characteristic of the Messenger's (peace and blessings be upon him) prayer in Tahajjud? You cannot do it, nor I, nor anyone. No one can do the Messenger's (peace and blessings be upon him) night prayer, not even Hudhayfah, who prayed with him and was about to sit down because of the length of his prayer. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) stood until his feet cracked from the length of his standing.
Some people say, "The Messenger
He did not exceed
ما زاد على(2) Arise [to pray] the night, except for a little - (3) Half of it - or subtract from it a little
قُمِ اللَّيْلَ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا نِّصْفَهُ(3) Half of it - or subtract from it a little (4) Or add to it, and recite the Qur'an with measured recitation.
أَوِ انقُصْ مِنْهُ قَلِيلًا أَوْ زِدْ عَلَيْهِ وَرَتِّلِ الْقُرْآنَ تَرْتِيلًا
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [29 -582] ما حكم من يهجر ويبدع إخوانه إذا زادوا في صلاة التهجد على إحدى عشرة ركعة؟ — youtube.com
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