What is the meaning of "after the prescribed prayers"?
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The questioner : There is a hadith in "Riyad al-Saliheen"... He said: I read in the book of the one who authenticated "Riyad al-Saliheen," and there is no commentary on this... So our difficulty is regarding "after the obligatory prayers"...
The Shaykh : Linguistically, "dabr" (after) is used for what is attached to a thing and what is behind it, separated from it. This is the statement of Ibn Taymiyyah and the statement of Abu al-'Aliyah. Now, "after the prayer" can mean two things: before the taslim... at the end of the prayer, and after the taslim. There is no doubt that in the authentic Sunnah, we have both types of supplication, namely before the taslim and after the taslim. But before the taslim, we have hadiths commanding it, such as the command to supplicate... As for after the prayer, we do not have a command; we have an action. We have an action from the Messenger that opens the field for supplication, with conditions... regarding which we do not delve. For example, his saying (peace and blessings be upon him):Sunan Abi Dawud 1512Sahih (Al-Albani), and similar to that which came in the Sunnah. This indicates permissibility, but it does not indicate superiority. The superiority... is his saying (peace and blessings be upon him): Sahih Muslim 588a; so this is "after the prayer" interpreted by the command. That is "after the prayer," but it is not interpreted by a command; it is interpreted by the action. The action indicates legitimacy, but it does not mean the meaning of urging to it, as is the case with a command Sahih Ibn Hibban 10:238; so "after the prayers" means the end of the prayer before the taslim.
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...The Shaykh : Linguistically, "dabr" (after) is used for what is attached to a thing and what is behind it, separated from it. This is the statement of Ibn Taymiyyah and the statement of Abu al-'Aliyah. Now, "after the prayer" can mean two things: before the taslim... at the end of the prayer, and after the taslim. There is no doubt that in the authentic Sunnah, we have both types of supplication, namely before the taslim and after the taslim. But before the taslim, we have hadiths commanding it, such as the command to supplicate... As for after the prayer, we do not have a command; we have an action. We have an action from the Messenger that opens the field for supplication, with conditions... regarding which we do not delve. For example, his saying (peace and blessings be upon him):
"O Allah, You are As-Salam, and from you is As-Salam. You are blessed, O One of Magnificence and Generosity."
اللهم أنت السلام ، ومنك السلام ، تباركت يا ذا الجلال والإكرامWhen any one of you utters tashahhud (in prayer) he must seek refuge with Allah from four (trials) and should thus say:" O Allah! I seek refuge with Thee from the torment of the Hell, from the torment of the grave, from the trial of life and death and from the evil of the trial of Masih al-Dajjal" (Antichrist).
إذا جلس أحدكم في التشهد الأخير فليستعِذْ بالله من أربع ؛ يقول : اللهم إني أعوذ بك من عذاب جهنم ، ومن عذاب القبر ، ومن فتنة المحيا والممات ، ومن شرِّ فتنة المسيح الدجال ، ثم ليتخيَّر من الدعاء ما شاءThen let him choose from the supplications whatever he wishes.
ثم ليتخيَّر من الدعاء ما شاء
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