What is the authenticity of the hadith, "Take a nap, for the Shayatins do not nap"?
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner asks: What is the authenticity of the hadith, "Take a nap, for the Shayatins do not nap"? And is the midday nap considered from the Sunnah of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)?
Answer:
I do not know that this is a hadith from the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). What I know is that the Shaytan debated with him. One said, "The scholar is more severe for us than the worshipper," and the other said, "No, the worshipper is more severe for us than the scholar." So they went with him and knocked on the door of a scholar during the midday nap. He said, "Take a nap, for the Shayatins do not nap." The Shaytan said, "Take this as the first thing." He knew his Shayatins had not seen us. When he came out to them, they asked him, "Where is the Fire?"
And Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) says, "And a garden whose width is the heavens and the earth." He said, "If He had willed, He would have placed it in the socket of your eye, O Shaytan." So he turned back humiliated and abased. They went to the poor worshipper and knocked on his door. He came out to them, and they said to him, "We are prophets, we ask you about Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He)." He said:[Ali 'Imran 3:133] Where is the Fire? He said, "Here. By Allah, I do not know. It is true that it has no place." Yes.
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner asks: What is the authenticity of the hadith, "Take a nap, for the Shayatins do not nap"? And is the midday nap considered from the Sunnah of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)?
Answer:
I do not know that this is a hadith from the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). What I know is that the Shaytan debated with him. One said, "The scholar is more severe for us than the worshipper," and the other said, "No, the worshipper is more severe for us than the scholar." So they went with him and knocked on the door of a scholar during the midday nap. He said, "Take a nap, for the Shayatins do not nap." The Shaytan said, "Take this as the first thing." He knew his Shayatins had not seen us. When he came out to them, they asked him, "Where is the Fire?"
And Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) says, "And a garden whose width is the heavens and the earth." He said, "If He had willed, He would have placed it in the socket of your eye, O Shaytan." So he turned back humiliated and abased. They went to the poor worshipper and knocked on his door. He came out to them, and they said to him, "We are prophets, we ask you about Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He)." He said:
a garden as wide as the heavens and earth
وَجَنَّةٍ عَرْضُهَا السَّمَاوَاتُ وَالْأَرْضُ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [3436/1544] ما صحة حديث "أقيلوا فإن الشياطين لا تقيل"؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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