The ruling on waking a sleeper for the Fajr prayer and knocking on the door
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The questioner : Your Eminence the Shaykh! We bear witness to Allah regarding our love for you. The question is that some of the brothers, may Allah reward him with good, wake up his brothers in the building every day for the Fajr prayer by knocking on each of their doors. However, there is one who comes out to this brother and curses him, saying that this action is excessive piety (tanattu'). Is there any advice for these people?
The Shaykh : For whom? For those who speak about the one who knocks, or for the one who knocks?
The questioner : No, for those who speak.
The Shaykh : I see that it is a blessing from Allah upon the servant that Allah facilitates for him what wakes him up for prayer. The scholars, may Allah have mercy on them, said that it is obligatory for a person to wake up a sleeper if he fears missing the time or missing the congregation. It is obligatory. So what is required of the one whose door was knocked on is to thank the one who knocked on his door, and say, "May Allah reward you with good, you helped me." And if he thanks him and sees that it is a kindness to him, and he gets up and prays with the congregation, he will find the pleasure of that in his heart, an increase in his faith, and the sweetness of faith. But...
A questioner asked me and said that there is one who goes through the phone directory, and if he finds a number after the Fajr adhan, he calls him. He says, "Get up for the Fajr prayer." This is excessive piety, and this is what is not permissible.
Because he may come across someone for whom the congregation is not obligatory, he may come across a woman for whom prayer is not obligatory, he may come across a disbeliever who does not pray. So his going through the numbers in the directory, and whenever he finds a number he calls him and says, "Get up and pray," this is wrong and not permissible.
The Shaykh : For whom? For those who speak about the one who knocks, or for the one who knocks?
The questioner : No, for those who speak.
The Shaykh : I see that it is a blessing from Allah upon the servant that Allah facilitates for him what wakes him up for prayer. The scholars, may Allah have mercy on them, said that it is obligatory for a person to wake up a sleeper if he fears missing the time or missing the congregation. It is obligatory. So what is required of the one whose door was knocked on is to thank the one who knocked on his door, and say, "May Allah reward you with good, you helped me." And if he thanks him and sees that it is a kindness to him, and he gets up and prays with the congregation, he will find the pleasure of that in his heart, an increase in his faith, and the sweetness of faith. But...
A questioner asked me and said that there is one who goes through the phone directory, and if he finds a number after the Fajr adhan, he calls him. He says, "Get up for the Fajr prayer." This is excessive piety, and this is what is not permissible.
Because he may come across someone for whom the congregation is not obligatory, he may come across a woman for whom prayer is not obligatory, he may come across a disbeliever who does not pray. So his going through the numbers in the directory, and whenever he finds a number he calls him and says, "Get up and pray," this is wrong and not permissible.
Source
لقاء بمسجد الطلاب بالمدينة الجامعية - 1 — archive.org (1:16:53)
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