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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Warning about an error that many worshippers commit when rising from the bowing: combining the phrase for the transition from bowing with the dhikr recited while standing

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The Shaykh : Another questioner asked, and this is a matter that requires attention. Most people are unaware of it, or rather, we can say they are ignorant of it. It is established from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that when a worshipper prays alone or leads people as an imam, when he raises his head from the bowing, he says: "Allah hears the one who praises Him." This is called the phrase for the transition from bowing to the standing after bowing. So when the worshipper begins to raise his head from the bowing, and he raises his head from the bowing saying: "Allah hears the one who praises Him," in this state of standing, he says: "Our Lord, to You belongs all praise." So here there are two phrases; it is not permissible to mix them, nor is it permissible to substitute one for the other.
So the saying of the one who says: "Allah hears the one who praises Him" is only the phrase for raising the head from the bowing until he stands upright. When he stands upright, he says: "Our Lord, to You belongs all praise."
It has many dhikr, some short and some long, and the longer it is, the better. This is how the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to pray, and this is how he commanded his Ummah to follow his prayer, in the hadith narrated by al-Bukhari and Muslim from the hadith of Abu Malik. He said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
offer your prayers in the way you saw me offering my prayers صلوا كما رأيتموني أصلي
Sahih al-Bukhari 6008
This form, or this rising from the bowing, includes two dhikr. The scholars agreed on their prescription for the one praying alone and for the imam, but they differed regarding the one praying behind the imam. Many of them hold that the one praying behind the imam only says, after the imam says: "Allah hears the one who praises Him," the one praying behind the imam only says: "Our Lord, to You belongs all praise." And the Shafi'is held that the one praying behind the imam is like the one praying alone and like the imam, combining the two phrases and not being content with the second without the first. And what we see today from many worshippers is that when they raise their heads from the bowing saying: "Allah hears the one who praises Him," they say: "Our Lord, to You belongs all praise." So they are substituting the second phrase for the first phrase, and this is an error, and no scholar says this. And if one must restrict oneself to the second phrase, its place is when one has fully stood upright. As for the first phrase, it is as we mentioned to you just now, and it is a matter in which there is no disagreement among scholars, as far as I know, and it is the phrase for the transition from the bowing: "Allah hears the one who praises Him." When one has fully stood upright, the second phrase comes: "Our Lord, to You belongs all praise."
Now, the majority of worshippers place the second phrase in the place of the first phrase. What the imam says while standing, "Allah hears the one who praises Him," the followers follow him by saying: "Our Lord, to You belongs all praise," and they are standing. What do they say? The phrase is gone, because they placed it in the state of transition from the bowing.
So the imam, the one praying alone, and the one praying behind the imam must say what the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to say when he stood up from the bowing:
Allah hears the one who praises Him, and while standing: Our Lord, to You belongs all praise, filling the heavens and filling the earth سمع الله لمن حمده وهو قائم : ربنا ولك الحمد ملء السماوات وملء الأرض
etc., the well-known phrase.
Source alathar.net

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