Explanation of the Book of Prayer-09

The Shaykh : He said: "And from Zayd ibn Arqam that he said:

In the lifetime of the Prophet (ﷺ) we used to speak while praying

إن كنا لنتكلم في الصلاة

Sahih al-Bukhari 1200

" His statement: This "in" is a light form of the heavy "in," and its subject is necessarily omitted. Grammarians call it the pronoun of the matter, and the implied meaning is "in" meaning the matter. Some said: "In" implies a pronoun suitable for the context, and it is not a condition that it be the pronoun of the matter, which is the singular masculine pronoun for the absent one, meaning the matter. Based on this opinion, the implied meaning would be: "We used to speak." Good. But those who insisted that it is the pronoun of the matter said: "So that what follows it is a sentence that is the predicate of the pronoun." And it indicates, yes, and it indicates that it is a light form of the heavy "in" by the presence of the lam in the predicate For this reason, if the lam were omitted and it were said: "In we used to speak," it could be interpreted as a negation. For this reason, it is said: "This lam is the distinguishing lam."
His statement: لنتكلم في الصلاة على عهد رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يكلم أحدنا صاحبه بحاجته حتى نزلت حافظوا على الصلوات والصلاة الوسطى وقوموا لله قانتين فأمرنا بالسكوت ونهينا عن الكلام speak in the prayer during the time of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him); one of us would speak to his companion about his need until there was revealed: Guard strictly your prayers and the middle prayer, and stand before Allah with devotion. So we were commanded to be silent and forbidden from speaking It is agreed upon by al-Bukhari and Muslim, and the wording is that of Muslim, until this verse was revealed: And maintaining the prayer includes maintaining its conditions, pillars, and obligatory acts, and this is completed by its complements. For example, if one prays without ablution, he has not maintained it; and if he prays and there is impurity in his garment and he knows about it, he has not maintained it; and whoever delays it from its time has not maintained it. So maintaining it, then, is what? It is fulfilling its conditions, pillars, and obligatory acts, and completing that with the complements. And his statement: This is general, and his statement: is specific. The intended meaning of the middle prayer is the 'Asr prayer. The scholars have differed on it with many opinions, and one is amazed that there should be such disagreement when the hadith regarding it is explicit and authentic that it is the 'Asr prayer, as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) explained it. He said on the day of the Trench: And this is an explicit text, and there should not be disagreement in it. So it is the 'Asr prayer. Consequently, the 'Asr prayer is the best of the prayers, followed by the Fajr prayer, due to his statement (peace and blessings be upon him): And the two cold ones are: Fajr and 'Asr. And his statement: And stand in what? Stand in the prayer, as Allah the Exalted said: So the meaning is: stand in the prayer. The letter "lam" indicates exclusivity, meaning that sincerity is obligatory in it. And in his statement: there is an indication of the obligation of qunut, due to his statement: For this reason, sincerity was mentioned before the action. Because if a person is standing for Allah, he will then will qunut. The intended meaning of qunut here is silence from the speech of people. For this reason, he said: And when the Companion said: The one commanding is the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). Meaning: silence from the speech of humans, meaning from a man speaking to his companion in the prayer, and not from absolute silence, because there is speech in the prayer. What speech? The speech of humans. So in this verse is patience, O people. So in this verse is the explanation of the cause, meaning that it was revealed for a cause, and its mention will come, if Allah wills, later.