Re: [IslamCity] Taraweeh Salaat and ramadhan

Wed, 12 Oct 2005 17:49:20 -0700

Wa alaykum as-Salam,
 
THere are many questions like this which have to be answered. When I lived in Saudi Arabia, I discovered somethings, some other things I learned by asking and still other things I could not get answers to.
 
Eventhough, officially, the Saudi society is governed by the Hanbali law, the lawyers who are currently responsible for implementing the  law also do their own IJTEHAD. And they a re known to change things in view of new findings and new thinking in the Ummah.
 
I think this is in view of those changes. And also, the Hanafee way of doing the TARAWEEH is much more popular in the rest of the Muslim world - such as in INdia and Pakistan.
 
Thank you.
 
Sincerely,
 
Syed-Mohsin Naquvi

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Dear brother
 
Asslame Walkum
 
if  according Imam Ahmad bin Hnabal is 8  then why in Hramain(i.e  Macca Masjid Al hram & in Medina Masid Annabowi ) thoug they all are Hanbli and they are praying 20 Rakat Taraweeh ?!
 
Fi Aman Allah
 
Farooque

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What are you talking about?
 
TAraveeh is 8 raka't every evening according to Imam Ahmad bin Hnabal, and twenty Rak'at according to Imam Abu Haneefa.
 
That eleven rak'at you are talking about is the TAHAJJUD.
 
Get your facts right.
 
You are confused yourself and confusing others.
 
Thank you.
 
Sincerely,
 
Syed-Mohsin Naquvi

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Number of rak’ahs of qiyaam

The number of rak’ahs is eleven, and it is preferable in our opinion not to exceed this number, following the practice of the Messenger of Allaah (Sal) because he never did more than that in his life. ‘Aa’ishah (may Allaah be pleased with her) was asked about how he prayed in Ramadaan. She said, "The Messenger of Allaah never prayed more than eleven rak’ahs (of qiyaam), whether during Ramadaan or any other time. He would pray four, and don’t ask me how beautiful or how long they were. Then he would pray four, and don’t ask me how beautiful or how long they were. Then he would pray three." (Reported by al-Bukhaari, Muslim and others).

Women can pray qiyaam in congregation

Women can attend the prayers too, as is stated in the hadeeth of Abu Dharr referred to above. Indeed, it is permissible to appoint an imaam just for them, apart from the imaam of the men. It was proven that when ‘Umar (Ral) gathered the people to pray qiyaam, he appointed Ubayy ibn Ka’b to lead the men and Sulaymaan ibn Abi Hathmah to lead the women. ‘Arfajah al-Thaqafi said: " ‘Ali ibn Abi Taalib (Ral) used to command the people to pray during the night in Ramadaan, and he would appoint an imaam for the men and an imaam for the women. I was the imaam for the women."

I say: this is fine in my view so long as the mosque is big enough so that they will not disturb one another.

However, is a person is praying qiyaam by himself, he can make it as long as he wishes;

if others agree with the imaam, he may also make it as long as he wishes.

The longer it is, the better,

but a person should not go to extremes and spend the whole night in qiyaam, except on rare occasions, following the example of the Prophet (Sal) who said: "The best guidance is the guidance of Muhammad." If a person is praying as an imaam, he should make it only as long as is easy for the people behind him, because the Prophet (Sal) said: "If any of you leads the people in prayer, let him make it short, because among them are the young and the old, the weak, and those who have pressing needs. But if he is praying alone, let him make it as long as he likes."

 abdeen
 
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Date: 09/26/05 23:59:35
Subject: [Norton AntiSpam] [IslamCity] Taraweeh Salaat and ramadhan
 
 

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Taraweeh Salaat

 In this belated day and age, every morn heralds a new fitna that strikes at the very root of Imaan and amal. For the past fourteen hundred years, the Ummah has been performing twenty rakaats of Taraweeh without question. However  “a sect” now claims that Taraweeh is ONLY eight rakaats, which implies that for fourteen hundred years the Ummah had deviated from the Sunnah of Nabi (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) and had performed twenty rakaats without any Shari proof.

The Virtue of Taraweeh

Abdullah Bin Ammar (R.A.) states that Nabi (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) said: “The fast and the Quraan will both plead on behalf of the bondsmen who keeps fast in the day and recites or listens attentively to the recitation of the Quraan at night standing in the presence of Allah (in Taraweeh). The fast will  say “O my Lord, I had held him back from food, drink and sexual gratification, accept my intercession for him today and treat him with mercy and forgiveness. The Quraan will say, “ I had held him back from taking rest and sleep at night, O MY lord, accept my intercession for him today and treat him with mercy and forgiveness”. The intercession of both the fast and Quraan will be accepted and he will be treated with exceptional kindness”. (Baihaqi).

Sayyidina Abu Sa’eed Al-Khudree (R.A.) narrates that Sayyidina Rasoolullah (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam said : “When the first night of Ramadhaan dawns (comes), the doors of the skies are opened, and none of its doors are then closed until the last night of Ramadhaan.

No mu’min servant ( of Allah) performs salaah during its night (any night of Ramadhaan), but Allah will record for him one thousand five hundred hasanah (rewards) for every sajdah that he makes. And Allah will build a home for him in Jannah made out of red ruby, which will have sixty thousand doors, each of its doors having (interlinked to, leading to) a palace made out of gold, ornamented (beautified and decorated) with rubies.

Thus, when he (the mu’min) fasts on the first day of Ramadhaan, all his past sins are pardoned, and seventy thousand malaaika make istighfar for him, daily, from the time of the fajr salaah, until the sun sets.

And for every sajdah that he makes during Ramadhaan, either by day or by night, there will be for him a tree, (in Jannah, so huge that) a person on horseback will ride in its shade for five hundred years.” (Baijaqi. Targheeb)

Samaan (R.A.) reports: “On the last day of Sha`baan the Messenger of Allah (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) addressed us and said: “O people , there comes over you now a great month, a most blessed month in which lies a night more greater in virtue than one thousand months. It is a month in which Allah has made Sunnah the Taraweeh by night. Whosoever intends drawing nearer to Allah by performing any virtuous deed, for him shall be the reward like him who had performed a Fardh in any other time. And whoever performs a Fardh, for him shall be the reward of seventy Fardh in any other time. This is indeed the month of patience, and the reward for true patience is Jannah (paradise). It is the month of sympathy with one’s fellow men. It is the month wherein a true believer’s rizq is increased. Whosoever feeds another who fasted, in order to break the fast (at sunset), for him there shall be forgiveness for his sins and emancipation from the fire of Jahannam (hell), ! and for him shall be the same reward as him (whom he fed) without that person’s reward being decreased in the least…”.

From this hadeeth it is noted that the command for Taraweeh prayers too comes from Allah Himself. All the authorities of the Ahlus Sunnah wal Jamm’ah are agreed upon the fact that Taraweeh is Sunnah.

Taraweeh During The Era of Nabi (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) and the Sahabah (R.A.)

Ibn Abbass (R.A.) states that during the month of Ramadhaan, Nabi (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) performed twenty rakaats (Taraweeh) and thereafter performed the witr salaat. (Baihaqi and Musannaf Ibn Abie Shaiba).

Ubay bin Ka’ab (R.A.) led the Taraweeh prayers and offered 20 rakaats and three rakaats  waajib salaat.

Umar (R.A.) commanded the Imaam to perform twenty rakaats Taraweeh salaat for the congregation.

Views of The Scholars

Imaan Qurtubie (R.A.) states: “ Twenty rakaats Taraweeh and three rakaats witr is the most authentic narration.”

Imaam Nawawie (R.A.) states: “ Taraweeh is a unanimously accepted Sunnah of the Muslims. It is twenty rakaats”. 

“ The pandemonium that the Ghair Muqallideen (people who do not follow any Mazhab) had started for the past hundred years was never before…..Similarly from the time of Umar (R.A.) upto the emergence of this sect there was no masjid in the world where eight rakaats of Taraweeh was performed…..”.(Moulana Habib ur Rahmaan Azmi).

A Grave Misconception

The proponents of eight rakaats Taraweeh quote the following hadeeth of Ayesha (R.A.) as stated in Bukhari Shareef. Ayesha (R.A.) was asked about the salaat of Nabi (Sallahu Alayhi Wasallam) . She replied by saying that Nabi (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) did not exceed eleven rakaats in Ramadhaan nor in any other month…”

This hadeeth apparently indicates that Nabi (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) performed eight rakaats and three rakaats witr. However the word ‘nor in any month’ clearly indicates that this was with reference to Tahajjud salaat and not Taraweeh salaat. The fact that Imaam Bukhari (R.A.) himself has not mentioned this hadeeth under the caption of Taraweeh salaat is clear proof that the salaat in question refers to witr and not Taraweeh salaat.

Hazrat Umar (R.A.) during his khilafate had directed that Taraweeh salaat be performed collectively in the masaajid, lest the practice gradually dissipates from the Ummah. He did not introduce the number of rakaats on his own accord. To believe that the twenty rakaats is an innovation of Umar (R.A.) IS TO UNDERMINE THE INTEGRITY OF Umar (R.A.) and all the Sahabah who were present at that time.!

Jamiatul Ulama Transvaal    

 

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