Can a man combine the intention of the greeting of the mosque with the intention of the two rak'ahs preceding the midday prayer?
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The questioner : The third question, O Shaykh: Some people say that the one who prays combines the sunnah of the greeting of the mosque and the sunnah of the midday prayer into two rak'ahs and receives the reward of four. What is your opinion of this statement?
The Shaykh : This statement can be corrected and it can be weakened; because it contains a generalization that requires detail, as he says thisThe questioner : that he receives the reward. So we say now, the Qudsi Hadith, that he says, Allah the Mighty and Majestic says to His angels: And the hadith has a continuation which I do not think I need to mention now. So this one who says he prays the Sunnah of wudu and the greeting and takes the reward of the two, this is an incorrect generalization. Why? Because we assume that if he prayed the two, or to express it correctly, if he prayed the greeting of the mosque alone, and prayed the Sunnah of Dhuhr, for example, alone, he prayed four rak'ahs. So for the prayer of the greeting, at least ten good deeds are recorded for him, and it may be a hundred, and it may be seven hundred, and so on. So we take now the minimum number, ten good deeds. And when he prayed the Sunnah of Dhuhr, at least ten good deeds were recorded for him. So the total of the two prayers is twenty. So this one from whom this statement is reported, if he prays two rak'ahs with the intention of the two acts of worship, will twenty be recorded for him? If he says: Yes, we say to him: No, you are wrong. Why? This is what he did not do, the second act of worship, meaning the Sunnah of wudu, he did not do it, he only prayed two rak'ahs. So this one is only recorded ten good deeds, but there is an increase of one good deed only, which is the completion of the previous hadith Sahih Ibn Hibban 6:75 So this one did one act of worship, so at least ten good deeds were recorded for him. The second act of worship he did not do, he only intended it, so one good deed is recorded for him. So the answer is that ten good deeds are recorded for him for the action, and one good deed for the intention. If we assume that Allah the Mighty and Majestic bestows upon him and records for him a hundred good deeds for the two rak'ahs, he will be recorded one good deed with the intention, making it one hundred and one, and so on. Therefore, we say here that we have three scenarios, and they differ in rank as follows: the first, which is the highest, is that he prays two rak'ahs as the greeting, two rak'ahs as the Sunnah of wudu, and two rak'ahs as the Sunnah of the time, making six. The one below that prays two rak'ahs with three intentions: the intention of the greeting, the intention of wudu, and the intention of the Sunnah of the time. And the third and last is that he prays two rak'ahs with one intention. This one is recorded ten good deeds. The one before him is recorded ten plus the reward of the intention or the two intentions. And the one before him is also recorded the reward of the one act of worship plus two intentions. The important thing is that every action has ten good deeds. If the action is repeated, the ten good deeds are repeated. If the action is not repeated but the intention is repeated, the intention has one reward. Is it clear?
The Shaykh : This statement can be corrected and it can be weakened; because it contains a generalization that requires detail, as he says thisThe questioner : that he receives the reward. So we say now, the Qudsi Hadith, that he says, Allah the Mighty and Majestic says to His angels:
O My angels, if My servant intends a good deed and performs it, record for him ten good deeds, up to a hundred good deeds, up to seven hundred good deeds, up to many times over. And Allah multiplies for whom He wills.
يا ملائكتي إذا هم عبدي بحسنة فعملها فاكتبوها له عشر حسنات إلى مائة حسنة إلى سبعمائة إلى أضعاف كثيرة والله يضاعف لمن يشاءIf My slave intends a good deed and does it, write it down for him as ten good deeds.
إذا هم عبدي بحسنة فعملها فاكتبوها له عشر حسناتAnd if My servant intends a good deed and does not perform it, record for him one good deed.
وإذا هم عبدي بحسنة فلم يعملها فاكتبوها له حسنة واحدة
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