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Prayer

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كتاب الصلاة

Narrated Mu'adh ibn Jabal (رضي الله تعالى عنه) : Prayer passed through three stages and fasting also passed through three stages. The narrator Nasr reported the rest of the tradition completely. The narrator, Ibn al-Muthanna, narrated the story of praying facing in the direction of Jerusalem. He said : The third stage is that the Apostle of Allah (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) came to Medina and prayed facing Jerusalem, for thirteen months. Then Allah, the Exalted, revealed the verse - ِ ْ ضَاهَا فَوَلَ ى تَقَلُّبَ وَجْهِكَ فِي السَّمَاءِ فَلَنُوَل ِيَنَّكَ قِبْلَةً تَرقَدْ نَر َْ الْمَسوَجْهَكَ شَطْر َُ هَامِ وَحَيْثُ مَا كُنْتُمْ فَوَلُّوا وُجُوهَكُمْ شَطْرِ دِ الْحَرج [ We have seen you turn your face towards the heavens, so We are turning you towards a prayer direction that pleases you. Turn your face in the direction of the Sacred Mosque. Wherever you may be, turn your faces to it. ] (Al-Baqara -144). And Allah, the Reverend and the Majestic, turned (them) towards the Ka'ba. He (the narrator) completed his tradition. The narrator, Nasr, mentioned the name of the person who had the dream, saying : And Abdullah Ibn Zayd (رضي الله تعالى عنه), a man from the Ansar, came. The same version reads : And he turned his face towards the Qibla and said - Allah is most great, Allah is most great; I testify that there is no god but Allah, I testify that there is no god but Allah; I testify that Muhammad is the Apostle of Allah, I testify that Muhammad is the Apostle of Allah; come to prayer (he pronounced it twice), come to salvation (he pronounced it twice); Allah is Most Great, Allah is most great. He then paused for a while, and then got up and pronounced in a similar way, except that after the phrase "Come to salvation" he added. "The time for prayer has come, the time for prayer has come." The Apostle of Allah (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) said : Teach it to Bilal (رضي الله تعالى عنه), then pronounce the Adhan (call to prayer) with the same words. As regards fasting, he said : The Apostle of Allah (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) used to fast for three days every month, and would fast on the tenth of Muharram. Then Allah, the Exalted, revealed the verses - يَا أَيُّهَا َّالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا كُتِبَ عَلَيْكُمُ الص ِ يَامُ كَمَا كُتِبَ عَلَى الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَت َقُون- ُأَيَّامًا مَعْد ٍودَاتۚ َٰ سَفْ عَلَىِ يضًا أَو فَمَنْ كَانَ مِنْكُمْ مَر ٍر ًَا فَهُوَ ۚ وَعَلَى الَّذِينَ يُطِيقُونَهُ فِدْيَةٌ طَعَامُ مِسْكِينٍ ۖ فَمَنْ تَطَوَّعَ خَيْرفَعِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَيَّامٍ أُخَر َخَيْرٌ لَهُ ۚ وَأَنْ تَصُومُوا خَيْرٌ لَكُمْ ۖ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ تَعْلَمُون [ O' believers, fasting is prescribed for you, as it was prescribed for those before you, so that you may become mindful of Allah. (Observation of fasts is) for a specified number of days. But any of you who is ill or on a journey (and cannot fast on some days) should complete these fasts on other days. But for those who can manage to fast with some hardship, (there is a choice for him either to fast or) feed a poor person. Yet better it is for him who volunteers greater good, and that you should fast is better for you, if you only knew. ] (Al-Baqara - 183-84). If someone wished to keep the fast, he would keep the fast; if someone wished to abandon the fast, he would feed an indigent every day; it would do for him. But this was changed. Allah, the Exalted, revealed - َِ لَمَضَانَ الَّذِي أُنْزشَهْرُ رفِيهِ ا ُْ آنلْقُر [ The month of Ramadan in which was revealed the Qur'an]. (Al-Baqara - 185) (let him fast the same) number of other days. Hence the fast was prescribed for the one who was present in the month (of Ramadan) and the traveller was required to atone (for them); feeding (the indigent) was prescribed for the old man and woman who were unable to fast. (The narrator, Nasr, further reported) : The companion Sirmah, came after finishing his day's work and he narrated the rest of the tradition.