It was narrated from Abu Hurayrah, may Allah be pleased with him, that he said

The Shaykh : ... And in the meaning of this report, there is a hadith in Sunan al-Tirmidhi from Abu Hurayrah: It is part of the Sunnah to shorten the taslim, meaning to abbreviate it and not to draw it out. This is an error that many imams of mosques commit by going against it, where the imam says, "Peace be upon you and Allah's mercy," and the one behind him performs the second taslim; because that person has already performed the second taslim; and then the imam, with the wording and by drawing out the word "Allah"; this is due to the ignorance of the imam and the ignorance of the one praying behind him; because the imam is ignorant of this Sunnah. The Sunnah in the taslim is to shorten it, meaning to abbreviate it and not to draw it out. "Peace be upon you and Allah's mercy," "Peace be upon you and Allah's mercy." And it has come from the followers who do not know, that he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: But, by Allah, I do not blame them, because "if the master of the house is beating the drum, then the residents have no choice but to dance." If the imam goes against the Sunnah, what do the followers behind him do? And it is supposed that he is more knowledgeable than them; so when we say that this follower, when he sees the ignorant imam drawing out the taslim, what can he do? He protects himself by lengthening his own taslim a little for the imam to finish, and then he performs his taslim; whereas if he says "Peace be upon you" and starts immediately, it means he is going to precede the imam in the result, even though the imam is the one responsible. The point is that the takbir is a "juzm" (cutting off), meaning a "khatf" (snapping), so it is not drawn out. It is not said: "Allahu akbar" [drawn out], but rather "Allahu akbar" [snapped]. Some people, in the past and present, have thought that the takbir is a "juzm" meaning without movement. You do not say: "Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar" [drawn out], but rather you say: "Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar" [snapped]. This is an error, an error in the Sunnah and an error in the language; because from the linguistic perspective, it is not permissible to stop on a moving letter. If you are on a static letter and you want to stop and not connect it, and if it is a moving letter, you do not make it static, but you move it and connect it to what follows. And many reciters connect a verse; the verse ends with a moving letter, but considering it as a verse, it is static, so they connect it to what follows and pronounce it as static, while it is actually moving. This is an error, two errors: the first error is stopping at every verse; the second error is that if you connect it, you must connect it as moving in the verse, not as static; is that not so?

The questioner : Yes, if the hadith is authentic, as you mentioned and you said that the takbir with "juzm" means "juzm" is stillness, so if you say the takbir, you become still if you stop. So the stopping requires that the reciter or the speaker, if he stops, does not move?

The Shaykh : I made a mistake.

The questioner : If the speech is merged into what follows, you connect it, meaning the movement in the word that

The Shaykh : I agree with you in the last sentence, and this is what you asked me about; but you made a mistake in the first part of the speech. I say this is not a hadith, and this is from the category of reminder First, it is not a hadith, and second, the meaning you referred to is a technical term, and the hadith is Arabic before it is technical. "Juzm khatf" means, and it is not "juzm" meaning "juzm" by stillness.

The questioner : In my opinion, that is the case.

The Shaykh : Ah, it is so, and you are not the first to be deceived by the full moon... It is to make the group who applied the grammatical terminology to this Arabic sentence, and that is the problem; the point is that the takbir is a "juzm" in the language of the Arabs, and with it Ibrahim ibn Yazid al-Nakha'i pronounced it, meaning a "khatf," not a stillness as is the grammatical terminology.

The questioner : It is as you mentioned, the first point is "the taslim is shortened," the shortening means understanding the meaning of "juzm," meaning it is a "khatf."

The Shaykh : Yes, yes, otherwise why did we bring the hadith of the Sunnah. The point is that the takbir is a "juzm khatf," and it is not a hadith, but a report from Ibrahim ibn Yazid al-Nakha'i; okay.