If the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) is mentioned in a gathering and the one who hears his mention does not send blessings upon him, does he commit a sin or not?
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The questioner : There are two hadiths from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). The first hadith says the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said: , and the second hadith says:
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : If the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) is mentioned in a gathering, and one forgets once when the name of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) is mentioned and does not send blessings upon him, does he incur this sin, or what is the case?
The Shaykh : Do you understand from the hadiths that it applies to the one who does it intentionally, or to the one who forgets?
Another questioner : The one who does it intentionally or the one who forgets?
The questioner : The one who forgets, because in the hadith
The Shaykh : There is no attachment, sin jim
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Do you understand from the hadiths the one who does it intentionally or the one who forgets? One of the two, or do you understand both? However you like, but the important thing is to answer. Do not give a lecture, and then the lecture comes to you, or you rest from it as you please.
The questioner : The one who does it intentionally is more [liable] than the one who forgets.
The Shaykh : May Allah guide you, may Allah guide you.
The questioner : But it appears that
The Shaykh : May Allah guide you. The best speech is what has already passed.
The questioner : There is no god but Allah
The Shaykh : Do you understand from the hadiths the one who does it intentionally or the one who forgets? One of the two, or do you understand both? However you like, but the important thing is to answer. Do not give a lecture, and then the lecture comes to you, or you rest from it as you please.
The questioner : The one who forgets, as it appears from the hadith.
The Shaykh : The one who forgets. How do you reconcile this understanding with the fact that the sleeper and the one who forgets are exempt from being held accountable? And I think you are with us in this, meaning, is the one who sleeps through the prayer or forgets it held accountable?
The questioner : No
The Shaykh : Well, the prayer is among the parts of the prayer upon the Prophet.
The questioner : (peace and blessings be upon him)
The Shaykh : Ah?
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh: Okay
Another questioner : No, answer the first answer.
The questioner : Because of the mistake that
The Shaykh : We return to the question for the sake of Abu Ahmad.
Another questioner : May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : That is, is the sleeper held accountable for sleeping through the prayer, or the one who forgets it? The answer, by consensus, is no. And it is well known that sending blessings upon the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) is one of the parts of the prayer, regardless of its ruling: whether it is a pillar, whether it is obligatory, whether it is mandatory, or whether it is a recommended practice. So, if the Muslim is not held accountable when he forgets the whole, is he held accountable when he forgets the part?
The questioner : Of course, he is not held accountable.
The Shaykh: Okay
The questioner : But if it is of the type of negligence
The Shaykh : I am just afraid of it, I am just afraid of it.
The questioner : If it is of the type of negligence and not from the category of forgetting, does he incur the sin?
The Shaykh : If he is not one who forgets, this is intentional. But now, what led you to such a question? And there was great good in it, because we understood that the forgetting here is not the meaning of the forgetting mentioned in such as the saying of Allah the Exalted:[Taha 20:124-126]. The forgetting in the verse is different from the forgetting in the hadith. Who reminded you to raise the question about this hadith? It appears that you felt that we were absorbed in the hadith and alert to the mention of sending blessings upon the Messenger, whereas I am reminding you that the people of hadith are the most people in sending blessings upon the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). And I am reminding you of another issue: if the Messenger is mentioned in a gathering a hundred times and the one praying in this gathering sends blessings upon the Messenger only once, is that sufficient, or is it necessary to send blessings a hundred times?
The questioner : I do not know. The apparent meaning of the hadith is a hundred times.
The Shaykh : Where did you take this apparent meaning from? You have preceded Abu al-Hazm in this.
The questioner : The path to Paradise.
The Shaykh : No, no. In one gathering, the Messenger was mentioned a hundred times, and [someone] sent blessings upon the Messenger only once. Do you remember that the Messenger was mentioned? Is it sufficient, or is it necessary to send blessings upon the Messenger a hundred times?
The questioner : I do not know.
The Shaykh : Ah?
The questioner : I do not know.
The Shaykh : Praise be to Allah in any case, O Abu Abd al-Rahman. And I am addressing myself because I am Abu Abd al-Rahman. It is incumbent upon us all not to rush into issuing fatwas. And on this occasion, I say to our brothers: acquire knowledge in the saying of our Lord, Blessed and Exalted is He:[An-Nahl 16:43]. This Qur'anic text divided the Muslim community, in terms of knowledge and its absence, into two categories: the knowledgeable and the ignorant. This Qur'anic text divided the Muslim society, in terms of the existence and absence of knowledge, into two categories: the knowledgeable and the ignorant. And it obligated upon each of the two categories what it did not obligate upon the other. It obligated upon the larger category, which is the one who does not know, what? To ask the people of knowledge. And it obligated upon the people of knowledge not to conceal the knowledge, by many verses, let alone the Prophetic hadiths. So now, every student of knowledge among you, every student of knowledge among you, should not get involved and issue a fatwa for himself, let alone rush and issue a fatwa for others, let alone exceed his level and respond to one who is more knowledgeable than him, because there is something in his place. [An-Nahl 16:43] This is a reminder, and the reminder benefits the believers.
The most stingly of people is the one who is mentioned in his presence and he does not send blessings upon me.
أبخل الناس من ذكرت عنده ولم يصلي عليWhoever forgets to send blessings upon me has missed the path to Paradise.
من نسي الصلاة علي فقد أخطأ طريق الجنةThe Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : If the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) is mentioned in a gathering, and one forgets once when the name of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) is mentioned and does not send blessings upon him, does he incur this sin, or what is the case?
The Shaykh : Do you understand from the hadiths that it applies to the one who does it intentionally, or to the one who forgets?
Another questioner : The one who does it intentionally or the one who forgets?
The questioner : The one who forgets, because in the hadith
The Shaykh : There is no attachment, sin jim
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Do you understand from the hadiths the one who does it intentionally or the one who forgets? One of the two, or do you understand both? However you like, but the important thing is to answer. Do not give a lecture, and then the lecture comes to you, or you rest from it as you please.
The questioner : The one who does it intentionally is more [liable] than the one who forgets.
The Shaykh : May Allah guide you, may Allah guide you.
The questioner : But it appears that
The Shaykh : May Allah guide you. The best speech is what has already passed.
The questioner : There is no god but Allah
The Shaykh : Do you understand from the hadiths the one who does it intentionally or the one who forgets? One of the two, or do you understand both? However you like, but the important thing is to answer. Do not give a lecture, and then the lecture comes to you, or you rest from it as you please.
The questioner : The one who forgets, as it appears from the hadith.
The Shaykh : The one who forgets. How do you reconcile this understanding with the fact that the sleeper and the one who forgets are exempt from being held accountable? And I think you are with us in this, meaning, is the one who sleeps through the prayer or forgets it held accountable?
The questioner : No
The Shaykh : Well, the prayer is among the parts of the prayer upon the Prophet.
The questioner : (peace and blessings be upon him)
The Shaykh : Ah?
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh: Okay
Another questioner : No, answer the first answer.
The questioner : Because of the mistake that
The Shaykh : We return to the question for the sake of Abu Ahmad.
Another questioner : May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : That is, is the sleeper held accountable for sleeping through the prayer, or the one who forgets it? The answer, by consensus, is no. And it is well known that sending blessings upon the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) is one of the parts of the prayer, regardless of its ruling: whether it is a pillar, whether it is obligatory, whether it is mandatory, or whether it is a recommended practice. So, if the Muslim is not held accountable when he forgets the whole, is he held accountable when he forgets the part?
The questioner : Of course, he is not held accountable.
The Shaykh: Okay
The questioner : But if it is of the type of negligence
The Shaykh : I am just afraid of it, I am just afraid of it.
The questioner : If it is of the type of negligence and not from the category of forgetting, does he incur the sin?
The Shaykh : If he is not one who forgets, this is intentional. But now, what led you to such a question? And there was great good in it, because we understood that the forgetting here is not the meaning of the forgetting mentioned in such as the saying of Allah the Exalted:
(124) And whoever turns away from My remembrance - indeed, he will have a depressed life, and We will gather him on the Day of Resurrection blind." (125) He will say, "My Lord, why have you raised me blind while I was [once] seeing?" (126) [Allah] will say, "Thus did Our signs come to you, and you forgot them
ومن أعرض عن ذكري فإنله معيشة ضنكا و نحشره يوم القيامة أعمعى قال ربي لما حشرتني أعمى وقد كنت بصيرا قال كذلك أتتك آياتنا فنسيتهاThe questioner : I do not know. The apparent meaning of the hadith is a hundred times.
The Shaykh : Where did you take this apparent meaning from? You have preceded Abu al-Hazm in this.
The questioner : The path to Paradise.
The Shaykh : No, no. In one gathering, the Messenger was mentioned a hundred times, and [someone] sent blessings upon the Messenger only once. Do you remember that the Messenger was mentioned? Is it sufficient, or is it necessary to send blessings upon the Messenger a hundred times?
The questioner : I do not know.
The Shaykh : Ah?
The questioner : I do not know.
The Shaykh : Praise be to Allah in any case, O Abu Abd al-Rahman. And I am addressing myself because I am Abu Abd al-Rahman. It is incumbent upon us all not to rush into issuing fatwas. And on this occasion, I say to our brothers: acquire knowledge in the saying of our Lord, Blessed and Exalted is He:
So ask the people of the message if you do not know.
فاسألوا أهل الذكر إن كنتم لا تعلمونSo ask the people of the message if you do not know.
فاسألوا أهل الذكر إن كنتم لا تعلمون
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