The ruling on the claim that supplicating during the remaining circuits of tawaf is an innovation (bid'ah) because there is no evidence for it
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The questioner : Honorable Shaykh, may Allah bless you. Many scholars publish supplications that are not established and specify them for a particular time and place. It is well known that whoever specifies a form of worship that is not established for a specific time or place has contradicted the Sunnah and committed one of the most clear-cut innovations. What do we say about such a matter?
The Shaykh : For example, for example, so that the people can hear.
The questioner : The statement of the author (may Allah have mercy on him).
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : Yes, if I told you to say, “O Allah, make the Hajj successful” or something similar, the Hajj has a specific place and time.
The Shaykh : No, you did not specify it, meaning in the first, second, or third condition.
The questioner : We started.
The Shaykh : That the entire tawaf is supplication, and some scholars preferred that one say it this way. We mentioned that this preference by some scholars is not based on the Sunnah. However, the clear innovation is to specify a particular supplication for each circuit. This is the clear innovation. For this reason, we find that generally, in this specification, if the crowd is light and the circuit ends before they finish, what do they do? They stop, that’s it. And if it is crowded and the supplication ends before they finish the circuit, they remain silent. Yes. In fact, some of them, if they reach the Black Stone and are about to say, “Our Lord, forgive us,” and then they reach “Our Lord, forgive” and the circuit ends, they say, “That’s it, we are not going to complete ‘forgive us’ or all this.” This is all due to ignorance. Yes. Yes, this is what he specified for each circuit, because tawaf is a form of worship that encompasses both dhikr (remembrance of Allah) and supplication. So the author chose this supplication because it is a comprehensive one, and as I told you, it is a preference, not from the Sunnah, but it is a preference.
The Shaykh : For example, for example, so that the people can hear.
The questioner : The statement of the author (may Allah have mercy on him).
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : Yes, if I told you to say, “O Allah, make the Hajj successful” or something similar, the Hajj has a specific place and time.
The Shaykh : No, you did not specify it, meaning in the first, second, or third condition.
The questioner : We started.
The Shaykh : That the entire tawaf is supplication, and some scholars preferred that one say it this way. We mentioned that this preference by some scholars is not based on the Sunnah. However, the clear innovation is to specify a particular supplication for each circuit. This is the clear innovation. For this reason, we find that generally, in this specification, if the crowd is light and the circuit ends before they finish, what do they do? They stop, that’s it. And if it is crowded and the supplication ends before they finish the circuit, they remain silent. Yes. In fact, some of them, if they reach the Black Stone and are about to say, “Our Lord, forgive us,” and then they reach “Our Lord, forgive” and the circuit ends, they say, “That’s it, we are not going to complete ‘forgive us’ or all this.” This is all due to ignorance. Yes. Yes, this is what he specified for each circuit, because tawaf is a form of worship that encompasses both dhikr (remembrance of Allah) and supplication. So the author chose this supplication because it is a comprehensive one, and as I told you, it is a preference, not from the Sunnah, but it is a preference.
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قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، [3303] حكم القول ببدعية الدعاء في بقية أشواط الطواف لعدم ورود الدليل على ذلك - تعليقات على الكافي — youtube.com
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