How to send blessings upon the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) when he is mentioned

The questioner : The questioner:The questioner : He says: What is the manner of sending blessings upon the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) when he is mentioned? Is it sufficient to say "peace and blessings be upon him" or "may Allah bless him and grant him peace"? to the end of the hadith?

The Shaykh : The matter varies from place to place, and there is no disagreement that these Ibrahimi blessings mentioned in the hadith the questioner referred toThe questioner : are, first of all, located in the prayer in the tashahhud. Second: if there is room to recite this blessing in its entirety, that is also what the Muslim should strive for. For example, his saying (peace and blessings be upon him): Here, it is sometimes possible—and I mean what I am saying—sometimes it is possible for the one who hears the adhan and responds to it to recite the Ibrahimi blessings as the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) taught us. But sometimes it is not possible, for example, when the time is tight. And the tightest time—and this opens the way for me to point out and draw attention to a matter in which some of our brothers who are keen to adhere to the Sunnah may fall—such as when the mu'adhdhin calls the adhan on Friday and the khatib is on the minbar. Here, there is no room for us to send blessings upon the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)... and then follow that by supplicating for him (peace be upon him) for the degree of the wasilah: to the end, because the khatib will have started immediately—I say he will have started—immediately after the mu'adhdhin finishes his adhan. But what I wanted to point out is that the reality of many khatibs today, even those who are keen on the Sunnah, is that we hear them wait for a long time. There is a gap, there is a pause between the mu'adhdhin finishing his saying "La ilaha illa Allah" and the khatib starting his sermon with "Indeed, all praise is for Allah...". What is this pause? He responds by sending blessings upon the Messenger (peace be upon him), even if with a shortened phrase as came in the question, and then he comes with the supplication . What I want to remind and point out is that this is not from the Sunnah. It is also not from the Sunnah for the khatib to enter the mosque on Friday and pray the greeting of the mosque; because the Sunnah is that he ascends directly to the minbar. So this khatib does not have the greeting of the mosque, unlike the general praying people there. Likewise, when the mu'adhdhin finishes on Friday and the khatib is on the minbar, there is no such long pause. It was not transmitted from the Messenger (peace be upon him). So the khatib should start the sermon directly. Returning to the original question: where there is space and time in which the Muslim is able to send blessings upon the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) with the Ibrahimi blessings, that is the Sunnah. But if the time is not a space that accommodates these complete Ibrahimi blessings, then here he suffices with the minimum possible, or what is called sending blessings upon the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). This happens often during conversation, for example, we are speaking with you now, so we say: The Messenger of Allah said... It is contrary to the Sunnah for me to say: The Messenger of Allah said: "O Allah, send blessings and grant peace..." as we sent blessings upon Ibrahim, even if I shorten the phrase as we mentioned, or a shorter form. No, rather I say: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said, or (peace and blessings be upon him and his family), and I proceed with mentioning the hadith. Likewise in writing, there is no room there to quote the Ibrahimi blessing in its entirety. In brief and concise, where there was room, the blessing was complete, and where there was no room, I shorten it to the minimum that can validly be called sending blessings upon the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). Yes.