Is it permissible to repeat al-Fatihah in the prayer, and to cite the statement "then recite whatever is easy for you of the Qur'an" as evidence?
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The questioner : May Allah forgive you. Some people say: they cite the statement of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) to the Bedouin: Sahih Muslim 397a So he recites after al-Fatihah, repeating al-Fatihah a second time, and cites the generality of the hadith as evidence.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : What is the ruling on that?
The Shaykh : The ruling on this is that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said to the man who erred in his prayer by leaving out the tranquility: he ordered him to recite whatever is easy of the Qur'an, and al-Fatihah is part of it. Then how is this Qur'an to be recited?
We return to the Sunnah in this matter. Here, there is a command to recite whatever is easy, but how is it to be recited? We return to the Sunnah; otherwise, the one making the claim would say: it is sufficient to recite one or two verses from the Book of Allah without al-Fatihah, or he would say: one can recite the surah before al-Fatihah. So we return to the action of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family), and it has never been reported from him, neither by a sound nor a weak chain, that he repeated al-Fatihah.
The most that is there is that he recited and repeated it in the second rak'ah, and the narrator himself was unsure whether he repeated it out of forgetfulness or as a practice? Yes.
and then recite whatever you conveniently can from the Qur'an
ثم اقرأ ما تيسر معك من القرآنThe Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : What is the ruling on that?
The Shaykh : The ruling on this is that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said to the man who erred in his prayer by leaving out the tranquility: he ordered him to recite whatever is easy of the Qur'an, and al-Fatihah is part of it. Then how is this Qur'an to be recited?
We return to the Sunnah in this matter. Here, there is a command to recite whatever is easy, but how is it to be recited? We return to the Sunnah; otherwise, the one making the claim would say: it is sufficient to recite one or two verses from the Book of Allah without al-Fatihah, or he would say: one can recite the surah before al-Fatihah. So we return to the action of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family), and it has never been reported from him, neither by a sound nor a weak chain, that he repeated al-Fatihah.
The most that is there is that he recited