The ruling on one who prays the 'Asr prayer at home due to work exhaustion
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
Question:
We have Abu Muhammad with us, and brother Abu Muhammad is not here? We have Fahd. Well, go ahead, my brother Fahd, from Madinah. Go ahead. Peace be upon you. And upon you be peace. First, I hope you convey my salam to the Shaykh, and second, I have two questions that are related to each other. First, I come home late after work, I eat lunch, I sleep, and I wake up for the 'Asr prayer, but I am lazy and I pray in the mosque due to exhaustion after work. The second question is: when do you pray it? Its time. The 'Asr prayer. At home. Yes. And the second question is: what is the criterion if I hear the call to prayer? Because now, with the noise of cities and such, the mosque might be three hundred kilometers away, or one might not hear the call, or one might hear the call through loudspeakers. And convey my salam to the Shaykh, and may Allah reward you with good. May Allah bless you. He conveys your salam. He says that he comes home late after work, Honorable Shaykh, and he eats lunch, sleeps, and prays 'Asr at home in its time. What is the ruling on that?
Answer:
It is not permissible for him to be late for the congregational prayer in the 'Asr prayer. Rather, he should hasten and pray with the congregation, then sleep. There is no doubt that prayer is more obligatory than work and more obligatory than this world and what is in it, so he should maintain his prayer. When he comes from work.
If the time is early, he eats lunch and sleeps before 'Asr and wakes up for the 'Asr prayer, and there is no harm in that. But if the time is tight, he does not sleep until he prays 'Asr with the congregation. Allah the Exalted said:[Al-Baqarah 2:238].
The middle prayer is 'Asr. It was specified alone after it was mentioned with the obligatory prayers to emphasize its status and concern for it. So it is obligatory for every Muslim to care for the 'Asr prayer. In the hadithSunan an-Nasa'i 474Sahih (Darussalam) Imam Malik said that the meaning of missing the 'Asr prayer is the exit of its time, the missing of the time. So he should strive for the 'Asr prayer, whatever it costs him, and it is easy by the permission of Allah if he cares for this matter.
We have Abu Muhammad with us, and brother Abu Muhammad is not here? We have Fahd. Well, go ahead, my brother Fahd, from Madinah. Go ahead. Peace be upon you. And upon you be peace. First, I hope you convey my salam to the Shaykh, and second, I have two questions that are related to each other. First, I come home late after work, I eat lunch, I sleep, and I wake up for the 'Asr prayer, but I am lazy and I pray in the mosque due to exhaustion after work. The second question is: when do you pray it? Its time. The 'Asr prayer. At home. Yes. And the second question is: what is the criterion if I hear the call to prayer? Because now, with the noise of cities and such, the mosque might be three hundred kilometers away, or one might not hear the call, or one might hear the call through loudspeakers. And convey my salam to the Shaykh, and may Allah reward you with good. May Allah bless you. He conveys your salam. He says that he comes home late after work, Honorable Shaykh, and he eats lunch, sleeps, and prays 'Asr at home in its time. What is the ruling on that?
Answer:
It is not permissible for him to be late for the congregational prayer in the 'Asr prayer. Rather, he should hasten and pray with the congregation, then sleep. There is no doubt that prayer is more obligatory than work and more obligatory than this world and what is in it, so he should maintain his prayer. When he comes from work.
If the time is early, he eats lunch and sleeps before 'Asr and wakes up for the 'Asr prayer, and there is no harm in that. But if the time is tight, he does not sleep until he prays 'Asr with the congregation. Allah the Exalted said:
Maintain with care the [obligatory] prayers and [in particular] the middle prayer
حَافِظُوا عَلَى الصَّلَوَاتِ وَالصَّلَاةِ الْوُسْطَىٰThe middle prayer is 'Asr. It was specified alone after it was mentioned with the obligatory prayers to emphasize its status and concern for it. So it is obligatory for every Muslim to care for the 'Asr prayer. In the hadith
Whoever abandons Salat Al-'Asr, his good deeds will perish.
من فاتته صلاة العصر فقد حبط عمله.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، حكم من يصلي العصر في بيته بسبب إرهاق العمل – الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.