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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The ruling on praying four rak'ahs before the 'Asr prayer

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Question:
If the hadith is authentic,
May Allah have mercy on the one who prays before 'Asrرحم الله لي من صلى قبل العصر
or after

Answer:
The hadith is authentic. It is recommended to
he would pray four Rak'ahs before 'Asrيصلي قبل العصر أربعا
Sunan an-Nasa'i 874Sahih (Darussalam)
, not as a regular voluntary prayer (rawatib), but as a purely voluntary prayer (nafilah), because the 'Asr prayer has no regular voluntary prayer attached to it, neither before nor after it. These four rak'ahs are purely voluntary, just as the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
Between every two calls to prayer there is a prayer, meaning between the adhan and the iqamah, and this isبين كل أذانيه صلاة يعني بين الأذان والإقامة، وهذا في
between the 'Asr prayer and others. Yes.
Source لقاء مفتوح في مركز المرور بالطائف — alfawzan.live (19:41)

The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.

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