Combining Night Prayer with Reciting the Hizb
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: Regarding the author’s (may Allah have mercy on him) statement that the intended meaning is the recitation commanded as a substitute for night prayer, is it prescribed that I leave off night prayer and substitute it with reciting the hizb that I am accustomed to reciting in prayer?
Answer:
No, combine them. Combine night prayer with reciting the hizb. Combine the two good deeds and the two virtues. Do not limit yourself to just one of them. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to stand in prayer until his feet swelled from the length of the standing. “Stand in prayer at night, except for a little.” This was in the beginning: “Stand in prayer at night, except for a little.”
Then, when that became difficult for the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), Allah lightened it for him:[Al-Muzzammil 73:20] Read what is easy for you of the Qur’an. And this suffices in place of long standing in the night. Yes, you substitute this with that. Yes.
Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
Answer:
So the end of the surah abrogates its beginning, yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: Regarding the author’s (may Allah have mercy on him) statement that the intended meaning is the recitation commanded as a substitute for night prayer, is it prescribed that I leave off night prayer and substitute it with reciting the hizb that I am accustomed to reciting in prayer?
Answer:
No, combine them. Combine night prayer with reciting the hizb. Combine the two good deeds and the two virtues. Do not limit yourself to just one of them. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to stand in prayer until his feet swelled from the length of the standing. “Stand in prayer at night, except for a little.” This was in the beginning: “Stand in prayer at night, except for a little.”
Then, when that became difficult for the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), Allah lightened it for him:
He has known that there will be among you those who are ill and others traveling throughout the land seeking [something] of the bounty of Allah and others fighting for the cause of Allah. So recite what is easy from it
عَلِمَ أَن سَيَكُونُ مِنكُم مَّرْضَىٰ وَآخَرُونَ يَضْرِبُونَ فِي الْأَرْضِ يَبْتَغُونَ مِن فَضْلِ اللَّهِ وَآخَرُونَ يُقَاتِلُونَ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ فَاقْرَءُوا مَا تَيَسَّرَ مِنْهُQuestion:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
Answer:
So the end of the surah abrogates its beginning, yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [448 -582] هل يشرع ترك قيام الليل والتعويض عنه بقراءة حزب من القرآن؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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