The preferred time for performing the 'Isha' prayer
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The questioner:
If, Your Eminence the Shaykh (may Allah preserve you), we say: What is the preferred time for performing the 'Isha' prayer? Hmm.
The Shaykh:
The preferred time is to delay it if they do not gather, and to delay it if they do gather, so delaying it is better; this is the default ruling for it. Delaying it is better, except if they gather, then he brings it forward.
The questioner:
All right, if the faith is applied.
The Shaykh:
And for the Zuhr prayer, the preferred time is to bring it forward, and so it is for the remaining prayers, except if the heat becomes intense, for then the Sunnah for the Zuhr prayer is to delay it until the heat breaks. Yes.
If, Your Eminence the Shaykh (may Allah preserve you), we say: What is the preferred time for performing the 'Isha' prayer? Hmm.
The Shaykh:
The preferred time is to delay it if they do not gather, and to delay it if they do gather, so delaying it is better; this is the default ruling for it. Delaying it is better, except if they gather, then he brings it forward.
The questioner:
All right, if the faith is applied.
The Shaykh:
And for the Zuhr prayer, the preferred time is to bring it forward, and so it is for the remaining prayers, except if the heat becomes intense, for then the Sunnah for the Zuhr prayer is to delay it until the heat breaks. Yes.
Source
شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم [ برنامج إذاعي ]، بداية من أسئلة في باب وقت صلاة المغرب — islamhouse.com (22:20)
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