Explanation of the Book of Prayer and Its Times-06a

The reciter: Isma'il ibn Ibrahim narrated to us, saying: Ruh and Muhammad ibn Ja'far informed us from Shu'bah from Muhammad ibn Ziyad from Abu Hurayrah from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), who said: إن عفريتا من الجن تفلت علي البارحة أو كلمة نحوها ليقطع علي الصلاة فأمكنني الله منه فأردت أن أربطه إلى سارية من سواري المسجد حتى تصبحوا وتنظروا إليه كلكم فذكرت قول أخي سليمان رب اغفر لي وهب لي ملكا لا ينبغي لأحد من بعدي قال روح فرده خاسئا A jinn demon slipped past me yesterday, or a word to that effect, intending to interrupt my prayer. So Allah enabled me to seize it, and I intended to tie it to one of the pillars of the mosque until you all would see it in the morning. Then I remembered the saying of my brother Sulayman: "My Lord, forgive me and grant me a kingdom that should not belong to anyone after me." Ruh said: He released him in a state of humiliation.

The Shaykh : The point of this hadith is clear: a captive or a debtor is tied in the mosque. As for the captive, it is as mentioned in the hadith: in order to ruin his prayer by casting whispers and preventing the heart from being present. He said: , the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) seized him فأردت أن أربطه إلى سارية من سواري المسجد حتى تصبحوا وتنظروا إليه كلكم فذكرت قول أخي سليمان رب هب لي ملكا لا ينبغي لأحد من بعدي قال روح فرده خاسئا And I intended to tie it to one of the pillars of the mosque until you all would see it in the morning. Then I remembered the saying of my brother Sulayman: "My Lord, grant me a kingdom that should not belong to anyone after me." Ruh said: He released him in a state of humiliation., meaning he did not do anything to him. Because the saying of Sulayman: made the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), out of etiquette, not tie it, because if he had tied it, he would have had authority over it. And authority over the jinn is a characteristic of Sulayman. Therefore, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) left it.