Combining the Prophet’s sleep through the Fajr prayer with the hadith “My eyes sleep, but my heart does not sleep”
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: How do you reconcile the hadith of Abu Hurayrah in which the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) slept through the Fajr prayer, with the hadith “My eyes sleep, but my heart does not sleep”?
Answer:
Yes, this refers to the eyes, not the heart. The sleep that overtook them was in the eyes, not in the heart.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: How do you reconcile the hadith of Abu Hurayrah in which the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) slept through the Fajr prayer, with the hadith “My eyes sleep, but my heart does not sleep”?
Answer:
Yes, this refers to the eyes, not the heart. The sleep that overtook them was in the eyes, not in the heart.
Source
شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم، بداية من باب من أذن فهو يقيم — islamhouse.com (53:48)
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