An Encouragement To Pray Salatut-Tasbeeh
Hadith 380:
It was narrated that Ibn ‘Abbas said:
“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said to ‘Abbas bin ‘Abdul-Muttalib: ‘O ‘Abbas, O my uncle, shall I not give you a gift, shall I not give you something, shall I not tell you of something which, if you do it, will expiate for ten types of sins? If you do them, Allah will forgive you your sins, the first and the last of them, the old and the new, the unintentional and the deliberate, the minor and the major, the secret and the open, ten types of sin. Pray four Rak’ah, and recite in each Rak’ah the Opening of the Book (Al-Fatihah) and a Surah. When you have finished reciting in the first Rak’ah, while you are standing, say: Subhan-Allah wal- hamdu Lillah wa la ilaha illallah wa Allahu Akbar (Glory if to Allah, praise is to Allah, none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and Allah is the Most Great) fifteen times. Then bow and say it ten times while you are bowing. Then raise your head from Ruku’ and say it ten times. Then go into prostration and say it ten times while you are prostrating. Then raise your head from prostration and say it ten times. Then prostrate and say it ten times. Then raise your head from prostration and say it ten times. That will be seventy-five times in each Rak’ah. Do that in all four Rak’ah. If you can pray it once each day then do so. If you cannot, then once each week; if you cannot, then once each month. If you cannot, then once in your lifetime.’” And in a narration the Prophet ﷺ said: “And even if your sins were like the foam of the sea, or the grains of sand, you will be forgiven by Allah.”
[Sunan Ibn Majah 1387, Sunan Abi Dawud 1297, Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 1216] – (Graded Sahih Li Ghairihi)
Virtue Of Praying Salah As A Way Of Tawbah
Hadith 381:
Abu Bakr narrated to me a tradition, and Abu Bakr narrated truthfully. He said: I heard the apostle of Allah (ﷺ) saying: When a servant (of Allah) commits a sin, and he performs ablution well, and then stands and prays two rak’ahs, and asks pardon of Allah, Allah pardons him. He then recited this verse: “And those who, when they commit indecency or wrong their souls, remember Allah” (Al-Qur’an 3:135).
[Sunan Abi Dawud 1521, Jami` at-Tirmidhi 406, Sunan Ibn Majah 1395, An-Nasai in Al-Amal Fee Al-Yaum wal-Laylah 417, Sahih Ibn Hibban 622] – (Graded Sahih)
An Encouragement To Pray Salatul-Istekhara
Hadith 382
Jabir bin ‘Abd Allah said:
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to teach us the supplication for isthikharah (seeking what us beneficial from Allah) as he would teach us a surah (chapter) from the Qur’an. He would tell us: When one of you intends to do a work, he should offer two supererogatory rak’ahs of prayer, and then say (at the end of the prayer): “O Allah, I seek Your choice on the better (of the two matters) based upon Your knowledge, and I seek Your decree based upon Your power, and I ask You for Your great bounties. For Indeed,You are the One Who Decrees, and I do not decree, and You know, and I do not know, and You are the Knower of the Unseen. O Allah, if you know this, and You are the Knower of the Unseen. O Allah, if you know this – here he should name exactly what he wishes – is better for me with regard to my religion, and my life, and my afterlife, and the end result of my affairs, then decree it to me, and make it easy for me, and bless me on it. O Allah, and if You know this to be evil for me – and he says just as he said the first time – then avert it for me, and avert me from it. And decree for me good wherever it might be, the make me content with it.” A version goes: “If the work is good immediately or subsequently.”
Ibn Maslamah and Ibn ‘Isa reported from Muhammad b. al-Munkadir on the authority of Jabir.
[Sunan Abi Dawud 1538, Sahih al-Bukhari 6382] – (Graded Sahih)
An Encouragement To Pray Salatul Jumuah
Hadith 383:
Abu Hurairh narrated that:
Allah’s Messenger said: “Whoever performs Wudu, performing his Wudu well, then he comes to the Friday (prayer), and he gets close, listens and is silent, then whatever (sin) was between that and (the last) Friday are forgiven for him, in addition to three days. And whoever touches the pebbles, he has committed Lagha (useless activity).”
[Jami` at-Tirmidhi 498, Sahih Muslim 857 b, Sunan Abi Dawud 1050, Sunan Ibn Majah 1090] – (Graded Sahih)
Hadith 384:
Abu Huraira reported:
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Five prayers and from one Friday prayer to (the next) Friday prayer is an expiation (of the sins committed in between their intervals) if major sins are not committed.
[Sahih Muslim 233] – (Graded Sahih)
Hadith 385:
Abu Sa’eed Al-Khudri said that, he heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:
Whoever does these 5 deeds in a day will be written amongst the people of Jannah- whoever visits a sick Muslim, participates in a Janazah (funeral rites of a Muslim), fasts that day, goes to the Jumuah, and frees a slave.
[Sahih Ibn Hibban 2760] – (Graded Sahih)
Hadith 386:
Narrated Yazid bin Abu Maryam:
“Abayah bin Rifa’ah bin Rafi’ met me while I was walking to the Friday prayer. He said: ‘Have glad tidings, for indeed these footsteps of yours are in the cause of Allah. I heard Abu ‘Abs say: “The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, ‘Whoever get his two feet dusty in the path of Allah, then they are prohibited for the Fire.'”
[Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1632] – (Graded Sahih)
Hadith 387:
Narrated Salman-Al-Farsi:
The Prophet ((ﷺ) said, “Whoever takes a bath on Friday, purifies himself as much as he can, then uses his (hair) oil or perfumes himself with the scent of his house, then proceeds (for the Jumua prayer) and does not separate two persons sitting together (in the mosque), then prays as much as (Allah has) written for him and then remains silent while the Imam is delivering the Khutba, his sins in-between the present and the last Friday would be forgiven.”
[Sahih al-Bukhari 883] – (Graded Sahih)
Hadith 388:
Abdullah bin Amr ibn Al-Aas said, that the Prophet ﷺ said:
“Whoever makes his wife do ghusl and does ghusl himself [i.e., has intercourse] on Friday and goes out early, walking not riding, and comes close to the imaam and listens [to the sermon] without interrupting, will have for each step he takes a reward equal to that of fasting and praying at night for one year.”
[Musnad Ahmad 209/2] – (Graded Sahih)
Hadith 389:
Narrated Aws ibn Aws:
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Among the most excellent of your days is Friday; on it Adam was created, on it he died, on it the last trumpet will be blown, and on it the shout will be made, so invoke more blessings on me that day, for your blessings will be submitted to me. The people asked: Messenger of Allah, how can it be that our blessings will be submitted to you while your body is decayed? He replied: Allah, the Exalted, has prohibited the earth from consuming the bodies of Prophets.
[Sunan Abi Dawud 1047, Sunan an-Nasa’i 1374, Sunan Ibn Majah 1636, Sahih Ibn Hibban 907] – (Graded Sahih)
Hadith 390:
It was narrated that Abu Hurairah said:
“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: ‘Allah led those who came before us astray from Friday. Saturday was for the Jews and Sunday was for the Christians. And they will lag behind us until the Day of Resurrection. We are the last of the people of this world but we will be the first to be judged among all of creation.’”
[Sunan Ibn Majah 1083, Sahih Muslim 2019. ]
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