The Book of the Prayer of the Traveler and Its Shortening-06b

The reciter: Yahya ibn Yahya narrated to us, saying: I read to Malik from Ibn Shihab from Humaid ibn 'Abd al-Rahman from Abu Hurayrah that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: .
And it was narrated to us ...

The Shaykh :, with faith in what? With faith in its recommendation and its being prescribed, and with faith in the reward that follows from it, and seeking reward for the reward and the recompense. For the meaning of seeking reward is that a person feels that Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, will compensate him for this deed and reward him for it, so it is as if he is calculating this upon Allah, Mighty and Majestic, to reward him for it. So if one stands the nights of Ramadan with faith and seeking reward, his previous sins will be forgiven. The apparent meaning of his statement "his previous sins" is generality, and that it includes minor and major sins. However, the majority are of the opinion that such a statement is specific to minor sins. They said this because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said or . And if these great obligatory duties do not expiate anything but minor sins, then what is less than them is even more so. Some scholars took this hadith in its generality and said that the favor of Allah is vast. Yes.