Explanation of the Book of Prayer-09

The Shaykh :"And from 'Ali (may Allah be pleased with him), who said:

I had the permission of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) to see him in his house at two times, and whenever I entered to him while he was praying he would clear his throat as a sign to me.

كان لي من رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم مدخلان فكنت إذا أتيته وهو يصلي تنحنح لي

Bulugh al-Maram 2:89

. Narrated by al-Nasa'i and Ibn Majah" 'Ali ibn Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him) is from the People of the House, and he is the most noble of the People of the House. He is the son-in-law of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family), for he married his daughter Fatimah. Fatimah is the mistress of the women of Paradise and the best of the daughters of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). The best of the People of the House of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), other than the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and 'Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him), married her. 'Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) married two daughters of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and for this reason he is called "The Possessor of the Two Lights." Abu Bakr married a daughter of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him and his family). It was mentioned that a man from the Rafidah and a man from the people of the Sunnah disputed over which was better, 'Ali or Abu Bakr? They referred the matter to Ibn al-Jawzi (may Allah have mercy on him), and he said to the two men: "The better of the two, meaning 'Ali ibn Abi Talib and Abu Bakr, is the one whose daughter is under his roof. Which one is it? The better of the two is the one whose daughter is under his roof." To whom do the pronouns refer? Yes. So the two men went away disputing over the referent of the pronoun, to whom it refers. But the man got out of it, without a doubt he got out of it. And this is something by which Allah opens up for a person in times of difficulty, when Allah makes something easy for him to get out of it, and it is a good truth. So we say, in this hadith, the hadith of 'Ali, he says: "Two entrances." The word "entrance" can be a name for time or a name for place. So do we say that these two entrances mean in the day and in the night, or from one door and another door? The first is the established meaning, namely: two entrances, so they are names for time, a name for time, meaning an entrance at night and an entrance in the day. meaning I would enter upon him, and it appears that something is omitted in the hadith, the intended meaning being: so I asked his permission. And the sound of clearing the throat is known; sometimes a sound is emitted from it and sometimes it is not. Sometimes the sound is such that you cannot discern a letter from it, and sometimes you cannot. meaning to indicate that he is praying.