What is the authenticity of what people circulate via mobile phones regarding being punished with ten in this world and ten in the Hereafter for abandoning the midday prayer?
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, this questioner says: People sometimes circulate hadiths via mobile phones, and among them is this hadith: "Whoever abandons the midday prayer is punished with ten in this world and ten in the Hereafter, and whoever abandons the afternoon prayer is punished with fifty sins." These are the hadiths that are repeated, O Shaykh.
Answer:
This is not established from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). What is established in the Book and the Sunnah regarding the encouragement of congregational prayer and praying at its proper time is sufficient, without these stories and the warning that is not established from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, this questioner says: People sometimes circulate hadiths via mobile phones, and among them is this hadith: "Whoever abandons the midday prayer is punished with ten in this world and ten in the Hereafter, and whoever abandons the afternoon prayer is punished with fifty sins." These are the hadiths that are repeated, O Shaykh.
Answer:
This is not established from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). What is established in the Book and the Sunnah regarding the encouragement of congregational prayer and praying at its proper time is sufficient, without these stories and the warning that is not established from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما صحة ما يتناقله الناس عبر الجوالات من ترك صلاة الظهر عوقب بعشر في الدنيا وعشر في الآخرة — youtube.com
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