The statement of Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah regarding the permissibility of the pre-Friday sunnah and its general evidence.

The questioner: In the past week, Shaykh, on Friday during the lesson, al-Barqawi was giving the lesson they usually give. During the discussion, they touched upon the pre-Friday sunnah, yes, that is right. He brought up a statement from Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah, and at the end of his speech, he said it is from the perspective of recommendation; that is, it is a recommended sunnah. This brother transmitted this statement to us at this place, and I and my brothers, the students of knowledge, said: What do you think? Should we ask him now on the phone? We actually called him on the phone. In the same tone as his speech in the mosque, it was as if our friend heard this statement. One of the young men said to Shaykh al-Barqawi: "O Shaykh, well, do these people provide the evidence?" This one said our friend: "I heard a word that they are Zindiqs (heretics), first of all, and secondly, on my hearing on the phone, after he transmitted that from some pages from Ibn Taymiyyah, he went and read them from the book which isThe Shaykh : al-Barqawi ... he said to him: "I read it and I did not find this statement." He said to him: "I tell you, these are liars, I read it myself." He said: "I did not find it." He went and brought the book from his library - of course, all this was on the phone - and he insisted on the statement being present. And at the end of the matter, this man said to him: "These are misguided and misguiders, they and their sheikhs," until he reached the point that these are Hashashin (Assassins). So, glory be to Allah! This man behaves this way.

The Shaykh: We ask Allah to guide him, but the truth is.

The questioner : Yes, Shaykh.

The Shaykh: The truth is that Ibn Taymiyyah has a statement on this, and he argues with his statement - peace be upon him - - look, we have returned to the same previous problem, and from Shaykh al-Islam - ; he uses as evidence the generality of his statement - peace be upon him - : , O Shaykh, if he were alive, we learned from you apply this generality that you are using as evidence; there were not two adhan at that time, nor was there a gap between the Uthmanian adhan and the Prophetic adhan for us to come and apply it? This generality from this hadith, so glory be to Allah! That is to say, every horse has a stumble, or stumbles, and this is truly one of the stumbles of Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah, and with it some scholars of the people of the Sunnah issue fatwas with this hadith that you should not restrict people; that Ibn Taymiyyah said so and so.

The questioner: Who, Shaykh, are the scholars who say to take the general meaning?

The Shaykh: All scholars say to take the general meaning, there is no problem with this, but we only take a specific point.

The questioner: What was the practice of the Salaf, who said that it is permissible to take it?

The Shaykh: We do not have an explicit statement that it is permissible to act on the general text even if the Salaf did not do it, except those who say in favor of the innovation of istihsan (juristic preference), but as a specific text as you ask, there is none.

Another questioner: That is, what Ibn Taymiyyah mentioned, what he mentioned is correct, Ibn Taymiyyah's statement on this?

The Shaykh: Yes, that is correct.

Another questioner: I read a treatise.

The Shaykh: What treatise?

Another questioner: The Great Treatise, "al-Risalah al-Kubra" by Ibn Taymiyyah, he did not say the statement like this, he did not ... .

The Shaykh: Good, he did not say this statement, what did he say?

The questioner: He said, of course, the Messenger - may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him - used to sit on the pulpit.

The Shaykh: No problem, we agree with him on that.

The questioner: As for the matter of him standing up to pray the sunnah, if his intention was the sunnah, he intended it as a voluntary prayer, then it is negated; that is, it is not a regular sunnah according to his intention.

The Shaykh: Did not ... a voluntary prayer between the two adhan?

The questioner: If this man stood up and prayed it considering it a voluntary prayer and not from what? The Friday sunnah.

The Shaykh: Well; but did he stand up to pray or was he praying? Here we differ, or do you know that we every Friday enter and pray as much as we wish, Allah willing, or we enter the mosque and pray - for example - two rak'ahs of the greeting of the mosque, and we sit, the first adhan is called, we stand up and pray, this is what Ibn Taymiyyah says, acting on this hadith; so you did not see this?

The questioner: I saw it differently.

The Shaykh: How did you see it?

The questioner: I saw it saying Ibn Taymiyyah says: Of course, the sunnah ... that the action of the Companions, they prayed until what they wished ... .

The Shaykh: We did not differ, no, you do not give us the points we agree with him on.

The questioner: It is said that he, regarding the Shafi'is, brought evidence for this statement, but he did not prefer this statement.

The Shaykh: No, he says it is permissible to perform voluntary prayers between the two adhan, acting on the generality of this hadith, there is no problem with that, and if you have doubt, I will look up the text for you.
Yes, that is right, please.

Another questioner: There is a question ... ... specifically ... a newspaper called Hadith, they were specifically in Ramadan publishing the newspaper with a religious page, I read a hadith that the Messenger of Allah - may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him - used to pray two rak'ahs before Friday and two rak'ahs after it; that is, it was not written who narrated it? Or where did he bring it from, the mufti wrote the article specifically about Friday ... .

The Shaykh: Which mufti?

Another questioner : ... .

The Shaykh: Look at "Silsilat al-Ahadith al-Da'ifah" (The Chain of Weak Hadiths), I think in the first volume, the third, you will find the statement about this hadith, and it is not authentic.
The questioner: This is present.

The Shaykh: It is present, yes.

Another questioner: And the Shafi'is argued with it, my Shaykh, this hadith.