Explanation of the Book of Friday Prayer and the Two Festivals-07a
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The reciter: Ibrahim ibn al-Mundhir al-Hazami narrated to us, Al-Walid narrated to us, Abu 'Amr narrated to us, Nafi' informed me from Ibn 'Umar, who said: Mishkat al-Masabih 772.
The Shaykh : This is like the first one, except that it explicitly states that it is set up in front of him and he prays facing it.
This indicates that when a person prays facing a sutrah, there is no harm in facing it directly, because the hadith that was transmitted stating that he turns away from it to the right and left has weakness in its chain, so it does not contradict the apparent meaning of these authentic hadiths.
the Prophet would go out in the morning* to the place of prayer with a staff in front of him which was carried and set up in front of him in the place of prayer, and he would pray in its direction.
كان النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم يغدو إلى المصلى والعنزة بين يديه تحمل وتنصب بالمصلى بين يديه فيصلي إليهاThe Shaykh : This is like the first one, except that it explicitly states that it is set up in front of him and he prays facing it.
This indicates that when a person prays facing a sutrah, there is no harm in facing it directly, because the hadith that was transmitted stating that he turns away from it to the right and left has weakness in its chain, so it does not contradict the apparent meaning of these authentic hadiths.