Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 298-304
Chapter 41: It is disliked to delay the prayers beyond their
proper times, and what a person should do if the Imam delays the prayer.
Abu Dharr reported:
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)
said to me: How would you act when you are under the rulers who would delay the
prayer beyond its prescribed time, or they would make prayer a dead thing as
far as its proper time is concerned? I said: What do you command? He (the Holy
Prophet) said: Observe the prayer at Its proper time, and if you can say it
along with them do so, for it would be a supererogatory prayer for you. Khalaf
(one of the narrators in the above hadith) has not mentioned" beyond their
(prescribed) time". (Sahih
Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 298)
Abu Dharr reported:
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)
said to me: O Abu Dharr, you would soon find after me rulers who would make
their prayers dead. You should say prayer at its prescribed time. If you say
prayer at its prescribed time that would be a supererogatory prayer for you,
otherwise you saved your prayer. (Sahih
Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 299)
Abu Dharr reported:
My friend (the Holy
Prophet) bade me to hear and obey (the ruler) even if he is a slave having his
feet and arms cut off, and observe prayer at its prescribed time. (And further
said): It you find people having observed the prayer, you in fact saved your
prayer, otherwise (if you join with them) that would be a Nafl prayer for you. (Sahih
Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 300)
Abu Dharr reported:
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)
struck my thigh and said: How would you act if you survive among the people who
would delay prayers beyond their (prescribed) time? He (Abu Dharr) said: What
do you command (under this situation)? He (the Holy Prophet) slid: Observe
prayer at its prescribed time, then go (to meet) your needs, and if the Iqama
is pronounced, and you are present in the mosque, then observe prayer (along
with the Jama'at). (Sahih
Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 301)
'Abu'l-'Aliyat al-Bara
reported:
Ibn Ziyad delayed the
prayer. 'Abdullah b. Samit came to me and I placed a chair for him and he sat
in it and I made a mention of whit Ibn Ziyad had done. He bit his lips (as a
sign of extreme anger and annoyance) and struck at my thigh and said: I asked
Abu Dharr as you have asked me, and he struck my thigh just as I have struck
your thigh, and said: I asked the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as you have asked me
and he struck my thigh just as I have struck your thigh, and he (the Holy
Prophet) said: Observe prayer at its prescribed time, and if you can say prayer
along with them. do so, and do not say." I have observed prayer and so I
shall not pray." (Sahih
Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 302)
Abu Dharr reported:
(The Messenger of Allah)
said: How would you, or how would thou, act if you survive to live among people
who defer prayer beyond the (prescribed) time? (The narrator said: Allah and
His Messenger know best). whereupon he said: Observe prayer at its prescribed
time, but if the Iqama is pronounced for (congregational) prayer, then observe
prayer along with them. for herein is an excess of virtue. (Sahih
Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 303)
Abu'l-'Aliyat al-Bara'
reported:
I said to 'Abdullah b.
Samit: We say our Jumu'a prayer behind those rulers who defer the prayer. He
('Abdullah b. Samit), struck. my thigh that I felt pain and said: I asked Abu
Dharr about it, he struck my thigh and said: I asked the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)
about it. Upon this he said: Observe prayer at its prescribed time, and treat
prayer along with them (along with those Imams who deter prayer) as Nafl.
'Abdullah said: It was narrated to me that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) struck
the thigh of Abd Dharr. (Sahih
Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 304)
Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 298-304
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