🔹At-Tirmidhi (413) narrated that Abu Hurayrah said:

I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: “The first deed for which a person will be brought to account on the Day of Resurrection is his prayer. If it is sound then he will prosper and succeed, but if it is not sound, then he will fail and lose. If his obligatory prayer is lacking, the Lord, may He be glorified and exalted, will say: Look and see whether My slave has any voluntary prayers to make up for what is lacking of his obligatory prayer. Then the rest of his deeds will be examined in like manner.”

Classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh at-Tirmidhi.

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When Shaykh al-Islam Ahmad ibn ʿAbd al-Halim ibn ʿAbd al-Salam ibn Taymiyyah al-Harrani (rahimahullah) was imprisoned, he found the prisoners busy and distracting themselves (from incarceration) with different types of games like chess, backgammon, and being negligent concerning their prayers.

The Shaykh strongly disapproved of their actions and instructed them to preserve and be vigilant in their prayers, and to perform all good deeds solely for the sake of Allaah.
Likewise, he ordered them to to glorify Allāh, seek His forgiveness, and supplicate to Him. He also taught them the Sunnah, made them aspire for good deeds, and encouraged them towards it.

[He did this] up until the prison became better than many mosques, gatherings of knowledge and schools with regards to being kept busy with knowledge of the religion.
To the point that when some of the prisoners were granted their freedom, they chose to stay with him.
Likewise, numerous people returned to the prison until the prison became full of people [seeking to benefit and be in the presence of Ibn Taymiyyah].

Source: al-ʿUqud al-Dariyyah fi Dhikr Bʿaḍ Manaqib Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah by Ibn ʿAbd al-Hadi al-Maqdasi
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✍🏻Translated by: Munib al-Sumali
🌐https://www.troid.ca/authors/scholars-the-major-scholars/84-salih-ibn-fawzan-al-fawzan/2305-excerpt-from-the-great-life-of-ibn-taymiyyah-his-imprisonment

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🔅Questioner:
What is the ruling on praying in a mosque which belongs to the people of innovation and how do I pray if there is *no mosque upon the Sunnah in the city, and it is correct for me to pray with my wife in my house❓*

🔅Shaykh Rabi ibn Hadi al-Madkhali:
No. If there is a mosque then pray in it even if it is with the people of innovation.
ʿAbdullah ibn ʿUmar prayed behind an individual from the Khawarij and this (narration) was used as proof by al-Bukhari. *(Praying in) congregation is a great affair which is not to be replaced for something like this.*

As for the people of innovation, then from them are those who are hidden (in their innovation), thus if his innovation is not evident then pray behind him. However, if his innovation becomes apparent to you then explain the truth and clarify (the innovation) to him.
If his innovation is of disbelief and he is insistent upon it, then do not pray behind him after the evidence of disbelief has been established upon him – meaning he commits an innovation of disbelief (i.e calling upon other than Allaah ﷻ, slaughtering for other than Allaah ﷻ, seeking rain from other than Allāh or distorting the attributes of Allaah ﷻ).

If he commits innovations of disbelief and you have debated with him, clarified the truth to him from the speech of Allaah ﷻ, the speech of his Messenger and the speech of the Salaf, yet he is insistent (upon his innovation) and stubborn (against the truth) then do not pray behind him. As for if his innovations if they are hidden and are not innovations which take someone outside of the fold of Islaam then pray behind him.
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●Taken from
🌐http://dusunnah.com/article/the-ruling-on-praying-behind-the-people-of-innovation-shaykh-rabi-ibn-hadi-al-madkhali/

"O my son, when you have written down ten Ahadeeth, look and see if you notice an improvement in the way you walk, in your level of patience, and in your degree of self-dignity. For if you do not see any such improvement, then know that your knowledge harms you and does not benefit you."

—Sufyan ath-Thawrī
Advice from his mother (rahimahullaah)

(Page 21, The Biography of Sufyaan Ath-Thawree)

The Excellence of Observing Saum (Fasting) in the months of Muharram and Sha'ban and the Sacred Months (Rajab, Dhul-Qa'dah, and Dhul-Hijjah) https://abdurrahman.org/2014/09/04/riyad-us-saliheen-imaam-nawawi-chapter-225/ via @AbdurRahmanOrg

A Story of a Woman who had Taqwa : Tafsir Ibn Kathir

Tafsir Ibn Kathir

Allah’s statement; (Allah will grant after hardship, ease.)

This is a sure promise from Him, and indeed, Allah’s promises are true and He never breaks them, This is an Allah’s saying; (Verily, along with every hardship is relief. Verily, along with every hardship is relief.) [94:5-6]

There is a relevant Hadith that we should mention here. Imam Ahmad recorded that Abu Hurayrah said,

“A man and his wife from an earlier generation were poor. Once when the man came back from a journey, he went to his wife saying to her, while feeling hunger and fatigued, Do you have anything to eat’ She said, Yes, receive the good news of Allah’s provisions.’ He again said to her, If you have anything to eat, bring it to me.’ She said, Wait a little longer.’ She was awaiting Allah’s mercy. When the matter was prolonged, he said to her, Get up and bring me whatever you have to eat, because I am real hungry and fatigued.’ She said, I will. Soon I will open the oven’s cover, so do not be hasty.’ When he was busy and refrained from insisting for a while, she said to herself, `I should look in my oven.’ So she got up and looked in her oven and found it full of the meat of a lamb, and her mortar and pestle was full of seed grains; it was crushing the seeds on its own. So, she took out what was in the mortar and pestle, after shaking it to remove everything from inside, and also took the meat out that she found in the oven.”

Abu Hurayrah added, “By He in Whose Hand is the life of Abu Al-Qasim (Prophet Muhammad )! This is the same statement that Muhammad said, (Had she taken out what was in her mortar and not emptied it fully by shaking it, it would have continued crushing the seeds until the Day of Resurrection.)”



https://abdurrahman.org/2014/01/29/storyofawoman/
via @AbdurRahmanOrg

Listen to this 5 min clip regarding sacred months, days and nights in Islam.

Currently we are in the sacred month of Dhul Qa'dah and fast approaching the Virtuous first 10 days of Dhul Hijjah.

https://abdurrahman.org/2016/08/19/the-merits-and-excellence-of-months-days-and-nights-in-islam/

Shaykh Uthaymeen rahimahullaah fasting the First 9 Days of Month of Dhul-Hijjah

[Short 15 min audio clip]

https://abdurrahman.org/2016/08/29/some-of-the-innovations-bidah-in-the-muslim-world/

Bismillaahir Rahmaanir Raheem
Assalaamu alaikum wa rahmatullaahi wa barakaatuhu

LAWFUL AND UNLAWFUL TAWASSUL

Q: What is the ruling on making Tawassul (supplicating to Allah in the name of …/by virtue of…) by the Prophet?
Is there any evidence prohibiting this?

A: Making Tawassul by the Prophet (peace be upon him) needs detailing.

☑️ If this Tawassul takes the form of following and loving him, obeying his orders, refraining from his prohibitions, and being sincere to Allah in worship, this is Islam and the Religion with which Allah sent His Prophets. In fact, every Mukallaf (person meeting the conditions to be held legally accountable for their actions) is obligated to perform these duties, which are the means to attain happiness in the world and the Hereafter.

🚫 As for making Tawassul by supplicating to the Prophet, seeking his help, asking for his support against enemies, and entreating him to cure the sick, these are kinds of major Shirk (associating others with Allah in His Divinity or worship), which embody the religion of Abu Jahl and other idol worshippers. The same applies to making Tawassul by other prophets, Awliya' (pious people), Jinn (creatures created from fire), angels, trees, stones, or idols.

🚫 There is a third kind of Tawassul, which is Tawassul through the virtue of the status, right, or self of the Prophet (peace be upon him), such as by saying: "O Allah! I ask You in the name of Your Prophet, by virtue of the status of Your Prophet, by right of Your Prophet, by virtue of the status or right of prophets or Awliya'", and other similar supplications. This is a Bid‘ah (innovation in the religion) and a means leading to Shirk. Accordingly, it is not permissible to use this kind of Tawassul neither with the Prophet (peace be upon him) nor with any other person, because Allah (Glorified and Exalted be He) has not prescribed this.

Moreover, acts of worship are Tawqifiy (bound by a religious text and not amenable to personal opinion), and thus it is not permissible to consider as lawful what is not supported by a proof from the Purified Shar‘ (Law) of Allah.

As for the incident of the blind man who made Tawassul by the Prophet (peace be upon him) during his lifetime, he entreated the Prophet (peace be upon him) to supplicate and intercede to Allah for him to return his eyesight to him; he did not make Tawassul by the Prophet’s self, status, or right, as indicated from the wording of the Hadith and clarified by the scholars who explained it.
This issue was discussed in detail by Shaykh-ul-Islam Abu Al-`Abbas Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah be merciful to him) in his many useful books, such as "Al-Qa‘idah Al-Jalilah fil Tawassul wal Wasilah," which is a useful book worth reading.

According to Ijma‘ (consensus of scholars), the same ruling of permissibility applies to living persons other than the Prophet (peace be upon him). For example, it is permissible to say to your brother, father, or any righteous person, "Supplicate to Allah to cure me of my illness, to restore my eyesight, to provide me with righteous offspring, etc."
Allah is the One Who grants success.

http://www.alifta.net/fatawa/fatawaDetails.aspx?languagename=en&BookID=14&View=Page&PageNo=1&PageID=539

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All things start small and grow larger except the calamity, for it starts large and then becomes smaller.

Hilyah (4/63).

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