What is the authenticity of the hadith: “Whoever’s prayer does not restrain him from indecency and wrongdoing has no prayer,” and in another narration: “He does not increase in distance from Allah”?
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The questioner : O Shaykh, there are two hadiths, by Allah; , and in another narration: Al-Mustadrak lil-Hakim 42:80; what about these two hadiths?
The Shaykh : Both are not authentic hadiths, and one is more invalid than the other;Al-Mustadrak lil-Hakim 42:80 the result is that if we see a person who prays and gets drunk, and we say: he is an addict; the result of this hadith is that he leaves off prayer.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Because he does not increase in anything but distance from it.
The Shaykh: Yes, with the one who is deficient.
The questioner : ... [The audience laughs!].
The Shaykh : The horror of these fabricated hadiths is as if they were fabricated by a very, very evil destructive plot. Now, many of the young people, you tell them: “My brother, you do not pray?” He says to you: “The essence is in the prayer!” Okay; what is the essence of? “Religion is dealing with people,” and this is not a hadith, it is a hadith with no basis. He says to you: “I do not harm anyone,” and they bring another hadith with no basis: “Two things you should not approach: associating partners with Allah, and harming people.” I am not an associate of partners with Allah, and I may be drowning in shirk, but I do not know it. I do not associate anything with Allah, and I do not harm people. That is what he says, and he adds to his words and says: “Hey, so-and-so prays, but he is a forger, a drunkard, a deceiver, and so on.” Okay; we say to him: What do you think? We are going to classify people now into three categories: one is like your story, he does not associate partners with Allah and does not harm people! And a second one: he prays to Allah but harms people. And a third one: he does not harm people, does not associate partners with Allah, and performs the prayer. Which one is better? Do you have any doubt that this third one, the last one, is the best? He cannot say, of course, if he is a believer, except yes, this one is the best. Okay; what do you think, we advise these two: you, first, take the prayer of this deceiver and add it to yours, and your not harming people and not associating partners with Allah, we give it to this deceiver; so you complete the deficiency that was in you, and he also completes the deficiency that was in him. What do you want? You took this second example; why did you not look at the third one, which is higher and nobler by your own admission?
The Shaykh: So the point is that this middle person who gets drunk—for example—and deceives people and prays; the result of acting on this weak hadith is that he goes back to not praying and deceiving people at the same time. Who says that? Just as it came in the authentic hadith, which is one of the marvels of the hadiths, he said (peace and blessings be upon him):, and so it is in all the prayers. And this is as it came in the hadith: Sunan an-Nasa'i 145Sahih (Darussalam). So for the one who does not have expiations, how much will his sins and disobediences accumulate upon him? They will burn him up. So this hadith that is invalid. As for that one which says: Glory be to Allah! He has no prayer if he does not be tranquil in it, if he does not bow, if he does not recite, and so on; meaning, the pillars of prayer and its conditions are known to the scholars.
The Shaykh: Let us suppose a person prayed, recited al-Fatihah but did not be humble, and bowed and was tranquil in the bowing but did not recite, and so on. He raised his head from the bowing and did not say anything, and prostrated and was tranquil in the prostration but did not say anything, and he testified or rather sat for the tashahhud and did not recite anything, and he said the taslim; this person prayed, but it is not the complete prayer described in the Qur'an:[Al-'Ankabut 29:45], but the one who prays like this, his prayer is better than the one who neglects prayer entirely; and therefore, as it was said: “O my Lord, some evil is lighter than some!”
Another questioner : Close to... Abdullah, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : How?
Another questioner : Close to Abdullah’s prayer.
The Shaykh : Abdullah, but the first of the rain is drops, then it pours down.
Another questioner : If Allah wills.
The Shaykh : Okay; we ask for your permission, do you allow us? May Allah bless you.
Whoever’s prayer does not restrain him from indecency and wrongdoing has no prayer
مَن لم تنهَهُ صلاته عن الفحشاء والمنكر فلا صلاة لهHe does not increase in distance from Allah
لم يزدَدْ من الله إلا بعدًاThe Shaykh : Both are not authentic hadiths, and one is more invalid than the other;
He does not increase in distance from Allah
لم يزدَدْ من الله إلا بعدًاThe questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Because he does not increase in anything but distance from it.
The Shaykh: Yes, with the one who is deficient.
The questioner : ... [The audience laughs!].
The Shaykh : The horror of these fabricated hadiths is as if they were fabricated by a very, very evil destructive plot. Now, many of the young people, you tell them: “My brother, you do not pray?” He says to you: “The essence is in the prayer!” Okay; what is the essence of? “Religion is dealing with people,” and this is not a hadith, it is a hadith with no basis. He says to you: “I do not harm anyone,” and they bring another hadith with no basis: “Two things you should not approach: associating partners with Allah, and harming people.” I am not an associate of partners with Allah, and I may be drowning in shirk, but I do not know it. I do not associate anything with Allah, and I do not harm people. That is what he says, and he adds to his words and says: “Hey, so-and-so prays, but he is a forger, a drunkard, a deceiver, and so on.” Okay; we say to him: What do you think? We are going to classify people now into three categories: one is like your story, he does not associate partners with Allah and does not harm people! And a second one: he prays to Allah but harms people. And a third one: he does not harm people, does not associate partners with Allah, and performs the prayer. Which one is better? Do you have any doubt that this third one, the last one, is the best? He cannot say, of course, if he is a believer, except yes, this one is the best. Okay; what do you think, we advise these two: you, first, take the prayer of this deceiver and add it to yours, and your not harming people and not associating partners with Allah, we give it to this deceiver; so you complete the deficiency that was in you, and he also completes the deficiency that was in him. What do you want? You took this second example; why did you not look at the third one, which is higher and nobler by your own admission?
The Shaykh: So the point is that this middle person who gets drunk—for example—and deceives people and prays; the result of acting on this weak hadith is that he goes back to not praying and deceiving people at the same time. Who says that? Just as it came in the authentic hadith, which is one of the marvels of the hadiths, he said (peace and blessings be upon him):
You burn, you burn, then you pray the Fajr prayer and you are forgiven, then you burn, you burn, then you pray the Zuhr prayer and you are forgiven, then you burn, you burn
تحترقون تحترقون ، ثم تصلون الصبح فيُغفر لكم ، ثم تحترقون تحترقون ، فتصلون الظهر فيغفر لكم ، ثم تحترقون تحترقونthe five daily prayers will be an expiation for whatever comes in between them
الصلوات الخمس كفَّارات لما بينهماWhoever’s prayer does not restrain him from indecency and wrongdoing does not increase in anything but distance from Allah
مَن لم تنهَهُ صلاته عن الفحشاء والمنكر لم يزدَدْ بها من الله إلا بعدًاThere is no prayer for him
فلا صلاة لهThe Shaykh: Let us suppose a person prayed, recited al-Fatihah but did not be humble, and bowed and was tranquil in the bowing but did not recite, and so on. He raised his head from the bowing and did not say anything, and prostrated and was tranquil in the prostration but did not say anything, and he testified or rather sat for the tashahhud and did not recite anything, and he said the taslim; this person prayed, but it is not the complete prayer described in the Qur'an:
Indeed, prayer prohibits immorality and wrongdoing
إِنَّ الصَّلَاةَ تَنْهَى عَنِ الْفَحْشَاءِ وَالْمُنْكَرِAnother questioner : Close to... Abdullah, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : How?
Another questioner : Close to Abdullah’s prayer.
The Shaykh : Abdullah, but the first of the rain is drops, then it pours down.
Another questioner : If Allah wills.
The Shaykh : Okay; we ask for your permission, do you allow us? May Allah bless you.
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