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The ruling on specifying the hour of answered supplication on Friday

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Question:
Umm 'Abdullah says: Honorable Shaykh, it is said that there is an hour on Friday when supplication is answered. When is this hour? And may I supplicate without praying?

Answer:
Yes, on Friday. It is authentic in the hadith that
In it is an hour in which no Muslim servant who supplicates to Allah while standing in prayer will fail to be answered.فيه ساعة لا يوافقها عبد مسلم يدعو الله وهو قائم يصلي إلا استجاب له
or He grants him what he asks for. So it is a fixed hour in this day, but the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) did not specify at what time of this day it is, so that the Muslim strives throughout the entire day of Friday, from its beginning to its end.
Thus, he will have caught the hour and added to it with righteous deeds in the rest of the day. As for specifying the hour, no evidence has been established for it, and the scholars exerted effort in determining it, resulting in many opinions. The closest are two: the first is that it is from when the imam enters until the Friday prayer is completed.
The second opinion, which is the view of Imam Ahmad (may Allah have mercy on him), is that it is in the last hour of Friday, before the sun sets. The meaning of "he is standing praying" in this context is that he is supplicating, because supplication is called prayer. Yes.
Source ساعة الإجابة يوم الجمعة — alfawzan.live

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