What is the ruling on making supplication after the prayers with a loud voice, where one person makes the supplication and the others say “Ameen”?
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Question:
May Allah reward you with good and do you well. We move on to other topics through other messages from our brother listeners. This is listener “Alif” from Northern Sudan, who asks in this session: In our mosque, after the *al-Baqiyat al-Salihat*, there are two or three of the worshippers who have memorized certain supplications. They recite them, and one of them raises his hands, while we say “Ameen” in an audible voice. However, I do not do that with them; rather, I make supplication during the prostration. Please clarify for us what has come in the Shari'ah regarding this matter so that we may follow it. May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
Supplication after the prayers is prescribed because that is a time when it is likely to be answered. However, the supplication should not be made with a collective voice, nor should it be done by one person reciting while the others say “Ameen.” This is because these two characteristics are religious innovations (bid'ah). Rather, every Muslim makes supplication for himself after the prayer individually, without being linked to the others. This is what is required. As for collective supplication after the prayer, or raising the hands in it, or the imam or anyone else making supplication while the others say “Ameen,” all of this is among the newly invented innovations from which the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) warned in his saying: “Whoever introduces into our matter something that is not part of it, it is rejected,” and in another narration: “Whoever does a deed for which there is no command from us, it is rejected.” So let everyone make supplication for himself and strive in his supplication, without doing so with a collective voice or the like.
It is among the innovations, even if many people in some countries have become accustomed to this. Whatever contradicts the Sunnah is rejected from its doer, and it is obligatory to repent from it and abandon it. Yes.
May Allah reward you with good and do you well. We move on to other topics through other messages from our brother listeners. This is listener “Alif” from Northern Sudan, who asks in this session: In our mosque, after the *al-Baqiyat al-Salihat*, there are two or three of the worshippers who have memorized certain supplications. They recite them, and one of them raises his hands, while we say “Ameen” in an audible voice. However, I do not do that with them; rather, I make supplication during the prostration. Please clarify for us what has come in the Shari'ah regarding this matter so that we may follow it. May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
Supplication after the prayers is prescribed because that is a time when it is likely to be answered. However, the supplication should not be made with a collective voice, nor should it be done by one person reciting while the others say “Ameen.” This is because these two characteristics are religious innovations (bid'ah). Rather, every Muslim makes supplication for himself after the prayer individually, without being linked to the others. This is what is required. As for collective supplication after the prayer, or raising the hands in it, or the imam or anyone else making supplication while the others say “Ameen,” all of this is among the newly invented innovations from which the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) warned in his saying: “Whoever introduces into our matter something that is not part of it, it is rejected,” and in another narration: “Whoever does a deed for which there is no command from us, it is rejected.” So let everyone make supplication for himself and strive in his supplication, without doing so with a collective voice or the like.
It is among the innovations, even if many people in some countries have become accustomed to this. Whatever contradicts the Sunnah is rejected from its doer, and it is obligatory to repent from it and abandon it. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم الدعاء أدبار الصلوات بصوت مرتفع، حيث يدعو أحدهم والبقية يؤمنون؟ الشيخ صالح بن فوزان الفوزان — youtube.com
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