Obligations by Vow and Cause, and the Hadith of the Bedouin
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. According to the view that it is not obligatory to fulfill anything other than what is mentioned in the hadith of the Bedouin found in this chapter, how would one answer, for example, regarding the obligation of prayers vowed, or fasting for ten days for one who did not have the blood of tamattu'?
Answer:
These have causes; these have causes from the part of the servant. Anything built upon a cause, or a condition, or a vow, is from the part of the servant. As for what is meant by prayer, it is what became obligatory by the original principle of the Shari'ah, what became obligatory by the original principle of the Shari'ah, not by a cause from the part of the servant. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. According to the view that it is not obligatory to fulfill anything other than what is mentioned in the hadith of the Bedouin found in this chapter, how would one answer, for example, regarding the obligation of prayers vowed, or fasting for ten days for one who did not have the blood of tamattu'?
Answer:
These have causes; these have causes from the part of the servant. Anything built upon a cause, or a condition, or a vow, is from the part of the servant. As for what is meant by prayer, it is what became obligatory by the original principle of the Shari'ah, what became obligatory by the original principle of the Shari'ah, not by a cause from the part of the servant. Yes.
Source
شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم، أول كتاب الصلاة — islamhouse.com (1:14:29)
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