What is the ruling on a husband who sleeps through the prayers?
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The questioner:
His wife says: He works from three in the morning until after the midday prayer, and sometimes he sleeps and does not pray the afternoon, sunset, and night prayers except by combining them at the end of the night. What is the ruling on that?
The Shaykh:
The ruling on that is: if he persists in this work, he is not a Muslim. Because he is deliberately missing the prayer outside its time. This is not permissible for him. That is, he goes to his worldly affairs and does not leave any time for the prayer, and he works long hours, and when the time for prayer comes, he sleeps through it. Is this a Muslim? There is no power and no strength except with Allah. It is obligatory for him to maintain the prayer at its appointed times: he prays and then sleeps. Praise be to Allah, the prayer takes only a few minutes from him. He prays and then sleeps. And when the time for prayer comes, he gets up and prays with the Muslims. As for sleeping through the prayers, deliberately doing this, and making it a habit, this is very serious.
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever misses a prayerSunan an-Nasa'i 474Sahih (Darussalam)" meaning he missed its time; he missed its time. He took it out of its time deliberately, and his work is nullified. And if he takes it out of its time deliberately, it is not valid even if he prays it.
Because the prayer, as Allah (Mighty and Majestic) said:[An-Nisa 4:103] So if he deliberately delays the prayer and says, "Whenever I get up, I will pray," and he persists in this, it is not accepted from him. Yes.
The questioner:
And she asks: Is there a sin on her, the wife, for what the husband does?
The Shaykh:
Yes, if she remains silent, she is sinful. What?
His wife says: He works from three in the morning until after the midday prayer, and sometimes he sleeps and does not pray the afternoon, sunset, and night prayers except by combining them at the end of the night. What is the ruling on that?
The Shaykh:
The ruling on that is: if he persists in this work, he is not a Muslim. Because he is deliberately missing the prayer outside its time. This is not permissible for him. That is, he goes to his worldly affairs and does not leave any time for the prayer, and he works long hours, and when the time for prayer comes, he sleeps through it. Is this a Muslim? There is no power and no strength except with Allah. It is obligatory for him to maintain the prayer at its appointed times: he prays and then sleeps. Praise be to Allah, the prayer takes only a few minutes from him. He prays and then sleeps. And when the time for prayer comes, he gets up and prays with the Muslims. As for sleeping through the prayers, deliberately doing this, and making it a habit, this is very serious.
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever misses a prayer
Al-'Asr, his good deeds will perish
العصر فقد حبط عملهBecause the prayer, as Allah (Mighty and Majestic) said:
Indeed, prayer has been decreed upon the believers a decree of specified times.
إِنَّ الصَّلَاةَ كَانَتْ عَلَى الْمُؤْمِنِينَ كِتَابًا مَّوْقُوتًاThe questioner:
And she asks: Is there a sin on her, the wife, for what the husband does?
The Shaykh:
Yes, if she remains silent, she is sinful. What?
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم الزوج الذي ينام عن الصلوات؟ للشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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