Discussion: The best prayer for a man is in his home, except for the obligatory prayers, with the Shaykh reminding of some situations.
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The questioner : Because I mentioned his description and a hadith regarding what he mentioned one night, somewhere between approximately 1968 or 1969 and 1972, I came to the Sacred Mosque in Makkah and sat... I sat.
The Shaykh : By Allah, I
The questioner : and I asked you, were you with one or two people driving, and I had one citizen with me, a brother from among the students of knowledge; I was a student before the shaykhs at that time, yes, that was the time.
The Shaykh : What Allah willed.
The questioner : ... Do you remember the pen and the notebook with you at that time?
The Shaykh : Yes, that was
The questioner : Do you remember the pen and the notebook, this square one with you here, and we sat in the Noble Sanctuary in Makkah on a quiet night, with no one in the Sanctuary except you... and I had a companion with me from Riyadh... and we sat that night, and I asked you after we had taken from you and been provided with good, if Allah wills, negotiations and jurisprudential dialogue, jurisprudential matters, jurisprudential issues, among which was that I was with a man, I do not know if he was Syrian or with my citizen companion, by Allah I do not know, but I differed with him and he corrected me on an issue.
The Shaykh : On an issue
The questioner : Yes, on the issue of the voluntary prayer, the virtue of praying in the mosque and that it is multiplied by a hundred thousand, I said to him, and the voluntary prayer in the home is better than in the Prophet's Mosque.
The Shaykh : Exactly
The questioner : He said, "No, this is in a hundred thousand, and the Messenger's statementBulugh al-Maram 2:313 As for the obligatory prayer, we have returned it to you, and you have approved me."
The Shaykh : And we still issue fatwas with this.
The questioner : This is it, praise be to Allah.
The Shaykh : Praise be to Allah.
The questioner : I said to you, because after I became and worked at the university, I asked Shaykh 'Abd al-Latif, I said this is the name I knew, al-Albani, he named himself Muhammad Nuh.
The Shaykh : Muhammad Nuh, and my father, yes.
The questioner : Yes, Muhammad Nuh.
The Shaykh : Nuh, and my father.
The questioner : Your father, and you are Muhammad Nuh, I said he named himself, as for Nasser, I do not know him, he did not tell me Nasser, he said no, his name is Nasser, I said yes, by Allah I do not know that it is him, but one day I was affected by some of the shaykhs, they said no, it is him, I said yes, it is him, I remember the hair... as if it was dyed with henna, your youth.
The Shaykh : I lived through that era.
The questioner : I said to them, some of the shaykhs said he is, he is, yes.
The Shaykh : He is called blond among us.
The questioner : Blond, he is.
The Shaykh : By Allah, I
The questioner : and I asked you, were you with one or two people driving, and I had one citizen with me, a brother from among the students of knowledge; I was a student before the shaykhs at that time, yes, that was the time.
The Shaykh : What Allah willed.
The questioner : ... Do you remember the pen and the notebook with you at that time?
The Shaykh : Yes, that was
The questioner : Do you remember the pen and the notebook, this square one with you here, and we sat in the Noble Sanctuary in Makkah on a quiet night, with no one in the Sanctuary except you... and I had a companion with me from Riyadh... and we sat that night, and I asked you after we had taken from you and been provided with good, if Allah wills, negotiations and jurisprudential dialogue, jurisprudential matters, jurisprudential issues, among which was that I was with a man, I do not know if he was Syrian or with my citizen companion, by Allah I do not know, but I differed with him and he corrected me on an issue.
The Shaykh : On an issue
The questioner : Yes, on the issue of the voluntary prayer, the virtue of praying in the mosque and that it is multiplied by a hundred thousand, I said to him, and the voluntary prayer in the home is better than in the Prophet's Mosque.
The Shaykh : Exactly
The questioner : He said, "No, this is in a hundred thousand, and the Messenger's statement
The most excellent prayer of a person is (that which he prays) in his house except that which is prescribed (the five congregational prayers).
أفضل صلاة المرء في بيته إلا المكتوبةThe Shaykh : And we still issue fatwas with this.
The questioner : This is it, praise be to Allah.
The Shaykh : Praise be to Allah.
The questioner : I said to you, because after I became and worked at the university, I asked Shaykh 'Abd al-Latif, I said this is the name I knew, al-Albani, he named himself Muhammad Nuh.
The Shaykh : Muhammad Nuh, and my father, yes.
The questioner : Yes, Muhammad Nuh.
The Shaykh : Nuh, and my father.
The questioner : Your father, and you are Muhammad Nuh, I said he named himself, as for Nasser, I do not know him, he did not tell me Nasser, he said no, his name is Nasser, I said yes, by Allah I do not know that it is him, but one day I was affected by some of the shaykhs, they said no, it is him, I said yes, it is him, I remember the hair... as if it was dyed with henna, your youth.
The Shaykh : I lived through that era.
The questioner : I said to them, some of the shaykhs said he is, he is, yes.
The Shaykh : He is called blond among us.
The questioner : Blond, he is.