The virtue of attending the opening takbir for forty days and making up what was missed
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, a man attended the opening takbir for thirty days, and then he missed it for one day. Does he have to repeat the thirty days? Because it is reported that whoever attends the opening takbir for forty days, it isJami` at-Tirmidhi 241Da'if (Darussalam). What is the authenticity of this?
Answer:
First, I do not know this hadith and I have no knowledge of it. As for making it up, he does not make it up; he does not make it up. What is required of the Muslim is that he hastens to the prayer. Yes, his attendance at the opening takbir has a virtue; because it is attendance at the beginning of the prayer, and attendance at the prayer from its start, and he misses nothing of it. This is good. So hastening to catch the opening takbir is required, and it contains much good. But if it is missed, how does he make it up?
How does he make it up? Does he make up the prayer? That is not valid. Does he make up the opening takbir alone? That is not possible. The word "make it up" has no basis. Rather, the exhortation is to attend the prayer early. And if he attends before the iqamah and performs whatever voluntary prayers are easy for him, and reads the Qur'an or remembers Allah, and waits for the prayer, this also has a great reward. It has a great reward.
Some of the Salaf said—I think it was Ishaq, I think it was al-Hasan al-Basri (may Allah have mercy on him)—who said: "For forty years, the mu'adhdhin has not called the adhan except that I was in the mosque." This is evidence that it is required of the Muslim that he hastens to the mosques. In fact, if a person spent most of his time and leisure in the mosques, that would be better for him.
Honorable Shaykh, a man attended the opening takbir for thirty days, and then he missed it for one day. Does he have to repeat the thirty days? Because it is reported that whoever attends the opening takbir for forty days, it is
two absolutions are written for him: absolution from the Fire, and absolution from the Fire, and absolution from hypocrisy.
له براءتان براءة من النار، وبراءة من النفاقAnswer:
First, I do not know this hadith and I have no knowledge of it. As for making it up, he does not make it up; he does not make it up. What is required of the Muslim is that he hastens to the prayer. Yes, his attendance at the opening takbir has a virtue; because it is attendance at the beginning of the prayer, and attendance at the prayer from its start, and he misses nothing of it. This is good. So hastening to catch the opening takbir is required, and it contains much good. But if it is missed, how does he make it up?
How does he make it up? Does he make up the prayer? That is not valid. Does he make up the opening takbir alone? That is not possible. The word "make it up" has no basis. Rather, the exhortation is to attend the prayer early. And if he attends before the iqamah and performs whatever voluntary prayers are easy for him, and reads the Qur'an or remembers Allah, and waits for the prayer, this also has a great reward. It has a great reward.
Some of the Salaf said—I think it was Ishaq, I think it was al-Hasan al-Basri (may Allah have mercy on him)—who said: "For forty years, the mu'adhdhin has not called the adhan except that I was in the mosque." This is evidence that it is required of the Muslim that he hastens to the mosques. In fact, if a person spent most of his time and leisure in the mosques, that would be better for him.
Source
الفوزان -أشرطة- أسئلة وأجوبة من دروس التوحيد - الفوزان - أسئلة التوحيد - ٠١ — archive.org (1:05:43)
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