The Ruling on the Phrase "Prayer is Better Than Sleep" for One Who Forgets It
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Question:
Allahu Akbar. Your Eminence the Shaykh, may Allah preserve you. Is the phrase "Sleep is better than wakefulness" obligatory? And what is required of the one who forgets it and passes its place? Does he go back to say it?
Answer:
It is obligatory for him to go back and say it, then say what comes after it. If he forgets it, he says it, then he says the takbir and "There is no god but Allah" after it. Because the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) taught it to the mu'adhdhin, so it is said in the last adhan, the adhan of Fajr. Yes. Yes.
Allahu Akbar. Your Eminence the Shaykh, may Allah preserve you. Is the phrase "Sleep is better than wakefulness" obligatory? And what is required of the one who forgets it and passes its place? Does he go back to say it?
Answer:
It is obligatory for him to go back and say it, then say what comes after it. If he forgets it, he says it, then he says the takbir and "There is no god but Allah" after it. Because the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) taught it to the mu'adhdhin, so it is said in the last adhan, the adhan of Fajr. Yes. Yes.
Source
شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم [ برنامج إذاعي ]، بداية من باب صفة الأذان — islamhouse.com (6:46)
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