The Book of Mosques and Places of Prayer-10a

The reciter: Yahya ibn Yahya narrated to us, saying: I read to Malik from Abu al-Zinad from al-A'raj from Abu Hurayrah that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: .

The Shaykh : His saying (peace and blessings be upon him): But the correct view is that this is permissible because it appears in the Qur'an and the Sunnah. Allah the Exalted said: And this hadith says "angels succeed one another among you," but the more common usage is the singular verb; that is the more common. It can also be said that the pronoun is the subject and what follows is an explanation of it, and its benefit is detailing after generalization, because the pronoun is vague, so the detail follows it. In this there is a benefit, which is the human desire for the subject, and then it comes. So "succeed one another" (with the waw) is the subject and not just a marker of plurality, and "angels" is an explanatory apposition or a substitute, and this aligns with the known rule among the people of language. This is close, and it contains the rhetorical point I mentioned, which is detailing after generalization. In this hadith, among the jurisprudential benefits, is the care of Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) for the believers, where He assigned angels to them who succeed one another among them. And in it is the virtue of the Fajr and 'Asr prayers, because the angels gather in them: the angels of the night gather with the angels of the day in the Fajr prayer, and the angels of the day gather with the angels of the night in the 'Asr prayer. And in it is also the praise of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) for the virtue of these praying people, because He asks the angels, "How did you leave My servants?" They say, "We left them while they were praying, and we came to them while they were praying." And He (Glorified and Exalted is He) is All-Knowing of that, indeed He knows best, but this is to praise the virtue of these praying people. Yes.