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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Did it come from some of the Companions that they used to sit before the Fajr prayer in the mosque and were overcome by a light sleep, and then they did not perform wudu?

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The questioner : Did it come from some of the Companions that "they used to sit before the Fajr prayer in the mosque and were overcome by a light sleep, and then they did not perform wudu"?

The Shaykh : Yes, half of your question is correct, and it is correct in terms of reality, not in terms of the Shari'ah ruling being established upon it. Raise your question from before Fajr and connect the topic to after the 'Isha' adhan. For indeed,
They were in the mosque, the adhan was called for the 'Isha' prayer, and they sat waiting for the Messenger (peace be upon him) to come out to lead them in the 'Isha' prayer, so some of them would sleep, until the snoring of some of them could be heard, and some of them would sleep lying on their sides. كانوا في المسجد يُؤذَّن لصلاة العشاء ، ويجلسون ينتظرون خروج الرسول - عليه السلام - لِيُصلي بهم صلاة العشاء الآخرة ، فينام بعضهم ؛ حتى لَيُسمَعُ لبعضهم غطيط ، وبعضهم كان ينام مضطجعًا
This is correct, and in "Sahih al-Bukhari" it is stated: "That some of the Companions said: O Messenger of Allah, the night has grown late, and the women and children have fallen asleep; so pray with us." So the Messenger (peace be upon him) would delay... and then he said...:
Were it not that I would cause hardship upon my Ummah, I would have delayed the 'Isha' prayer for them until the middle of the night. لولا أن أشقَّ على أمتي لَأخَّرتُ بهم صلاة العشاء إلى نصف الليل
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The questioner : ... .

The Shaykh: Yes.

The questioner : To a third.

The Shaykh : In this delay, some of them would doze off and sleep, and some scholars argue with this hadith, which is from the hadith of Anas with a sound chain, other than the hadith of Safwan, who said... because they
They are snoring in their sleep while lying on their sides. يغطُّون في نومهم وهم مضطجعون
. Rather, this is what Imam Ahmad narrated in some of his books of questions with a sound chain, so some of them argue with it that sleep absolutely does not invalidate wudu. But this is a refuted argument, because it is established that sleep is among the things that invalidate wudu in the hadith of Safwan ibn 'Asal and others, such as his saying (peace be upon him):
The eyes are the leather strap of the anus, and when the eye sleeps the leather strap is loosened العينان وكاء السَّه ، فإذا نامت العينان انطلق الوكاء
Mishkat al-Masabih 315
. Therefore, it is not permissible to counter these explicit verbal hadiths that sleep invalidates wudu with such an argument based on an incident or incidents that used to occur, because that was before the legislation of the statement that sleep invalidates wudu. The summary of the answer is that this hadith, after being purified of some expressions added to it, is a sound hadith, but it is not decisive and not acted upon. Perhaps we can suffice with this... do you allow us... .

The questioner : It is, our Shaykh, before Fajr, this statement.

The Shaykh : That is it, of course, it is not correct. Do you allow us to leave, if Allah wills? May Allah reward you with good... And Glory be to You, O Allah, and with Your praise, I bear witness that there is no deity but You, I seek Your forgiveness and I repent to You.

The questioner : ... .

The Shaykh : ... sometimes ... he says I am presenting ... .

The questioner : ... .

The Shaykh : ... .

The questioner : But sometimes, our Shaykh, as you see.

The Shaykh : Necessities permit the prohibited.

The questioner : ... and they consider it a very great gain, Glory be to Allah ... .

The Shaykh : ... . - Peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah and His blessings - .

The questioner : ... ؟

The Shaykh : Where is this contradiction? This ... .

The questioner : ... .

The Shaykh: Yes.

The questioner : One of the brothers sent a message with ... Abu 'Abdullah ... .

The Shaykh : ... and where is Abu 'Abdullah, where is he.

The questioner : ... he travels to Spain.

The Shaykh : ... .

The questioner : ... .

The Shaykh : This we give it toAbu Layla : so that he can relax in it, requests like these requests from the sincerity of some people on one hand, and their simplicity in thinking on the other hand, they imagine that we ... a state that is able to ... such that ... .
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