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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Combining the Sleep of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) from the Fajr Prayer with the Hadith: “My eye sleeps, but my heart does not sleep”

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Question:
So I said: Shaykh, how do we reconcile the story in which the light of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) regarding the Fajr prayer is mentioned, with the hadith that says:
My eye sleeps, and my heart does not sleepتناموا عيني، وقلبي ولا ينام قلبي


Answer:
Yes, the reconciliation is that the predominant state of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was that his heart did not sleep. His heart did not sleep; this is the predominant state of his condition (peace and blessings be upon him). However, it is known that on some occasions he slept through a prayer, and this was not reported about him except in this incident, the incident of the journey. It was not reported that he slept through an obligatory prayer except for the Fajr prayer in this journey. The wisdom behind this is for the legislation for the Ummah. Allah has a wisdom and a benefit for the Ummah in this, to legislate for them what to do if such an excuse occurs to them. Just as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) made a mistake in prayer and said, “Indeed, I am a human being, and I forget just as you forget,” and just as he made a mistake in prayer (peace and blessings be upon him) for the benefit of the Ummah, in order to legislate for them what to do if they make a mistake in prayer, so it may happen that some circumstances occur to him for the wisdom of legislation for the Ummah. That his eye sleeps and his heart does not sleep. No one has said that his heart slept in this story.
Source شرح بلوغ المرام من أدلة الأحكام [ صالح الفوزان ]، تابع باب الأذان - 1 — islamhouse.com (45:16)

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