And prayers and peace be upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions.

The reader: In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may peace and blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions:
The author (may Allah have mercy on him) transmitted, in the context of the hadiths in the chapter on the virtue of standing in night prayer: "From Abdullah ibn Salam (may Allah be pleased with him), that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:

O people, promote the greetings, feed (the poor and needy) and perform Salat when others are asleep so that you will enter Jannah safely.

أيها الناس! أفشوا السلام، وأطعموا الطعام، وصلوا بالليل والناس نيام، تدخلوا الجنة بسلام

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Al-Tirmidhi narrated it and said: 'A good, authentic hadith.'"

The Shaykh : In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful:
The author, al-Nawawi (may Allah have mercy on him), transmitted in his book *Riyad al-Salihin*, in the chapter on the virtue of standing in night prayer:
From Abdullah ibn Salam (may Allah be pleased with him), that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) said: : Know that when the address of the Shari'ah is preceded by a call, that indicates the importance of this address, because the call requires the addressee to be alert. There is a difference between saying a statement generally and calling out to the person you are addressing; the latter is more effective in drawing attention and alertness. He says: The greeting of peace is addressed to both the one who greets and the one who is greeted. As for the one who greets, he should greet everyone he meets who deserves to be greeted, whether he knows them or not.
The one who deserves to be greeted is the Muslim whose boycotting is not permissible. As for the disbeliever, do not initiate the greeting to him, whether he is a disbeliever who does not claim Islam, or a disbeliever who claims Islam but is upon a major innovation that entails disbelief. You do not greet him because he does not deserve it. For this reason, the Prophet (may the prayer and peace of Allah be upon him) said: . And the one who greets should raise his voice so that it is heard, and not greet with his nose, because some people—may Allah guide us and them—have arrogance or rudeness. So when they meet you, they greet you with their nose, and you can barely hear them. This is contrary to spreading the greeting of peace. Spreading the greeting of peace is to raise your voice and make it clear: "Peace be upon you." The scholars said: "Except if he greets a group of people who are awake among whom there are sleepers, then he should not raise his voice to a degree that wakes the sleepers" , because this harms the sleepers.
Then, the recommended formula is to say: "Peace be upon you, if the one greeted is one person. If they are a group of men, say: Peace be upon you. If they are a group of women, say: Peace be upon you (feminine plural)" : according to the addressee. Then, when you say: Peace be upon you, or upon you (plural), or upon you (feminine plural), you feel that you are praying for their safety. "Peace be upon you" is a mere greeting, a prayer for safety, because Allah protects them from all afflictions: afflictions of sins, afflictions of hearts, afflictions of bodies, and afflictions of reputation, from every affliction. For this reason, if you said: "Welcome" instead of "Peace be upon you," it would not suffice for you, because "Welcome" does not contain a prayer. It contains a valid greeting and congratulation, but it does not contain a prayer. The prescribed greeting is to say: "Peace be upon you."
As for the one who is greeted, it is obligatory for him to return the greeting as he was greeted. This is an obligatory matter due to the saying of Allah the Exalted: . If he said: "Peace be upon you" and you said: "Welcome, may Allah greet you, we are pleased with your coming, may Allah greet you, please," all these words do not suffice for the one word: what is it? "And upon you peace." You must say: "And upon you peace" first. If you say "Welcome" from here to Mecca, it is of no benefit. You must say: if he said: "Peace be upon you," you say: "And upon you peace." If you do not do so, you are sinful. You are sinful, and a sin is upon you, because you left an obligatory duty. So you must say in the response: "And upon you peace." Likewise, if he greets you with a loud, clear voice, you do not return the greeting with your nose, whether he hears it or not. This is also not permissible, because you did not return it with something like it or better than it. Many people say: "Peace be upon you," in clear speech. The second person says: "And upon you peace," oh Allah, he hears it, with his nose, arrogance, and rudeness. This is not permissible, because his saying: includes the formula and the manner of performance. It must be like it or better than it.
Likewise, he (may the prayer and peace of Allah be upon him) said: , Who do we feed? Those who need it. Feeding your family, from wives and children, boys or girls, and whoever is in your house, is the best thing. It is better than giving charity to a poor person, because feeding your family is fulfilling an obligation, and fulfilling an obligation is better than fulfilling a voluntary act, due to the saying of Allah the Exalted in the Holy Hadith: . So feeding your family is better than feeding the poor person at the door, because the former is an obligation and the latter is voluntary. So whoever feeds his family and does not shortchange them in anything and fulfills the obligation has fed people. And whatever surplus he gives in charity is good.
: O Allah, make us among these people. : Perhaps the best and sweetest sleep is that which is from after the middle of the night to the dawn. So if a person stands up at this time for Allah (Mighty and Majestic) to perform the Tahajjud prayer, drawing near to Him with his speech and his supplication, humble before Him while the people are sleeping, this is among the best of deeds.
: And this is the point of the hadith: that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) made prayer at night one of the causes of entering Paradise.
And the answer: He said: , The angels greet you with peace, : they congratulate them for what they endured and for this great reward. And "you will enter Paradise in safety": its apparent meaning is without punishment or torment, because whoever is tormented is not safe. So these three matters in this hadith are among the causes of entering Paradise in safety. We ask Allah the Exalted to help me and you with them and to make us among those who enter Paradise in safety. Indeed, He is capable of all things.