Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), when he would say the takbir for the prayer, meaning when he would say Allahu Akbar, the intended meaning is the takbir of ihram
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The Shaykh : Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Bulugh al-Maram 2:150 meaning when he said Allahu Akbar, and the intended meaning is the takbir of ihram. He would pause for a moment, meaning he would pause for a short time. So "a moment" is a description of a described noun that is omitted, and the estimation is "a pause of a moment," meaning a short time.
Bulugh al-Maram 2:150 Here the author abbreviated the hadith, and I wish he had not reached this degree of abbreviation.
Abu Hurayrah said: This phrase that the author omitted contains benefits, but it seems that the author (may Allah have mercy on him) abbreviates the hadith to the extent that he wants it to be evidence for, and these are jurisprudential issues, but for their transmission
He said:Sahih al-Bukhari 7025
Sahih al-Bukhari 744 Meaning, inform me about this silence, what do you say? And the intended meaning of silence here is not raising the voice, and the original meaning of silence is refraining from speech; it is said "he spoke and he was silent," but the intended meaning here is not raising the voice, as evidenced by his saying?
The student: What do you say?
The Shaykh : What do you say? He said:Sunan Ibn Majah 805Sahih (Darussalam) O Allah, meaning?
The student: O Allah.
The Shaykh : O Allah, distance me from my sins, meaning make them far from me, as You have distanced the East from the West, and this is the most eloquent expression of distance, as Allah the Exalted said in the Qur'an:[Az-Zukhruf 43:38] What? [Az-Zukhruf 43:38] Distance me from it so that I do not commit it, because it is out of reach. And "sins" is the plural of "sin," which is what a person errs in, meaning what he does intentionally, whereas what he makes a mistake in is what he does unintentionally.
Sunan an-Nasa'i 60Sahih (Darussalam) And he specified the garment as white because the effect of dirt is more apparent on white than on anything else. For this reason, you find that a person in winter, if he wears black winter clothes, when does he wash the garment? After a month, yes. And if he wears white in the summer, every week, yes, because white is affected by dirt more than anything else, and the trace of dirt is more apparent in it than in anything else. So for this reason he said: Sunan an-Nasa'i 402Sahih (Darussalam) meaning dirt. This is the purification of a person from sins.
Sunan Ibn Majah 805Sahih (Darussalam), this is the washing. The washing removes the effect completely. So here, for sins that a person is not entangled with, what does a person say about them?
The student: Distance me from them.
The Shaykh : Distance me from them. For sins that one is entangled with and immersed in, he says: O Allah, purify me. For sins from which one is purified, freed, and left behind, it requires a washing that removes their effect entirely. Look at the order; it is a natural order suitable for reality, and the statement with both is well-known. Snow is frozen water, and hail is the snow that falls from the clouds. That it is washed with water is not problematic because water is a remover. But between cold and snow, which is more effective in removal: hot water or snow and hail?
The student: Hot water.
The Shaykh : Hot water is more effective in removal and faster. But the issue is not the issue of a garment being washed; it is the issue of sins. And sins are originally hot, their punishment being the Fire. And a thing is only cured by what?
The student: By its opposite.
The Shaykh : By its opposite. So for that reason, he mentioned snow and hail. This hadith, as you have seen, is a hadith with which the prayer is opened after the takbir of ihram. If we add it to what precedes it and what follows it, it becomes clear that the opening has types, as will be mentioned, if Allah wills, in the benefits. Yes.
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) used to keep silent
كان رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم إذا كبر للصلاةand the recitation of the Qur'an - for a short while. Then, I asked him
قبل أن يقرأ فسألتهAbu Hurayrah said:
By my father and my mother, you, O Messenger of Allah, have you seen your silence between the takbir and the recitation, what do you say?
بأبي وأمّي أنت يا رسول الله أرأيت سكوتك بين التّكبير والقراءة ما تقولHe said:
Let my father and mother be sacrificed for you, O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)!
بأبي أنت وأمّي يا رسول اللهWhat do you say in the pause between Takbir and recitation?
أرأيت سكوتك بين التّكبير والقراءة ما تقول؟The student: What do you say?
The Shaykh : What do you say? He said:
I say: ‘Allahumma ba’id baini wa baina khatayaya kama ba’adta bainal-mashriqi wal-maghrib
أقول اللهم باعد بيني وبين خطاياي كما باعدت بين المشرق والمغربThe student: O Allah.
The Shaykh : O Allah, distance me from my sins, meaning make them far from me, as You have distanced the East from the West, and this is the most eloquent expression of distance, as Allah the Exalted said in the Qur'an:
Until, when he comes to Us [at Judgement], he says [to his companion], "Oh, I wish there was between me and you
حتى إذا جاءنا قال يا ليت بيني وبينكthe distance between the east and west - how wretched a companion."
بعد المشرقين فبئس القرينO Allah, cleanse me of of sin as a white garment is cleansed from filth
اللهم نقني من خطاياي كما ينقى الثوب الأبيض من الدنسas a white garment is cleansed of dirt
كما ينقّى الثّوب الأبيض من الدّنسIt was narrated that Abu Hurairah said: “When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said the Takbir (Allah Akbar), he would remain silent between the Takbir and the recitation. I said: ‘May my father and mother be ransomed for you! I noticed that you are silent between the Takbir and the recitation; please tell me what you say then.’ He said: ‘I say: ‘Allahumma ba’id baini wa baina khatayaya kama ba’adta bainal-mashriqi wal-maghrib; Allahumma naqqini min khatayay kath-thawbil abyad minad- danas; Allahummaghsilni min khatayaya bil-ma’i waththalji wal-barad (O Allah, distance me from my sins as You have distanced the east from the west; O Allah purify me of my sins as a white garment is purified of dirt; O Allah, cleanse me of my sins with water and snow and hail).”
قال اللهم اغسلني من خطاياي بالماء والثّلج والبردThe student: Distance me from them.
The Shaykh : Distance me from them. For sins that one is entangled with and immersed in, he says: O Allah, purify me. For sins from which one is purified, freed, and left behind, it requires a washing that removes their effect entirely. Look at the order; it is a natural order suitable for reality, and the statement with both is well-known. Snow is frozen water, and hail is the snow that falls from the clouds. That it is washed with water is not problematic because water is a remover. But between cold and snow, which is more effective in removal: hot water or snow and hail?
The student: Hot water.
The Shaykh : Hot water is more effective in removal and faster. But the issue is not the issue of a garment being washed; it is the issue of sins. And sins are originally hot, their punishment being the Fire. And a thing is only cured by what?
The student: By its opposite.
The Shaykh : By its opposite. So for that reason, he mentioned snow and hail. This hadith, as you have seen, is a hadith with which the prayer is opened after the takbir of ihram. If we add it to what precedes it and what follows it, it becomes clear that the opening has types, as will be mentioned, if Allah wills, in the benefits. Yes.