Category:The Book of Shortening the Prayer in Muwata Malik

List of Chapters in The Book of Shortening the Prayer

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The Book of Shortening the Prayer Summary

1. Then the travellingprayer was kept as it was and an increase was made in the prayer whensettled
2. Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said that he saidto Salim ibn Abdullah What is the latest you have seen your fatherdelay maghrib while on a journey and Salim replied One time thesun set when we were at Dhat al Jaysh and he prayed maghrib at al Aqiq
3. Yahya related to me from Malik from Abu n Nadr the mawla of Umaribn Ubaydullah that Abu Murra the mawla of Aqil ibn Abi Talib toldhim that he had heard Umm Hani bint Abi Talib say I went to theMessenger of Allah may Allah bless him and grant him peace in theyear of the conquest and found him doing ghusl while his daughterFatima was screening him with a garment
4. I said to him Peace beupon you and he said Who is that I replied Umm Hani bint AbiTalib and he said Welcome Umm Hani When he had finished hisghusl he stood and prayed eight rakas covering himself with onegarment and then came away
5. Sometimes the Messenger of Allah may Allahbless him and grant him peace would refrain from a practice that heloved to do fearing that people would do the same and it would becomefard for them
6. Malik said I consider that it ispermissible to do that if the iqama for the prayer has been said andthe imam has said the initial takbir and a man cannot find any wayinto the mosque except by going between the rows
7. Yahya related to me from Malik that Abd al Karim ibnAbi l Mukhariq al Basri said Among things the Prophet may Allahbless him and grant him peace said and did are As long as you donot feel ashamed do whatever you wish the placing of one hand onthe other in prayer one places the right hand on the left beingquick to break the fast and delaying the meal before dawn
8. Yahya related to me from Malik from Sumayy the mawla of AbuBakr that Abu Bakr ibn Abd ar Rahman used to say Someone who goesto the mosque in the morning or the afternoon with no intention ofgoing anywhere else either to learn good or teach it is like someonewho does jihad in the way of Allah and returns with booty
9. Yahya related to me from Malik from al Ala ibn Abd ar Rahman ibnYaqub from his father from Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of Allah may Allah bless him and grant him peace said Shall I tell you thethings by which Allah erases wrong actions and by which he raisesranks the complete and correct performance of wudu in adverseconditions a great number of steps towards the mosque and waitingafter one prayer for the next prayer
10. Yahya related to me from Malik from Abu nNadr the mawla of Umaribn Ubaydullah that Abu Salama ibn Abd ar Rahman asked him Didn t Isee your master sit down before praying after he had entered themosque Abu n Nadr said By that he meant Umar ibnUbaydullah and he was finding fault with him for sitting down beforepraying after he had come into the mosque
11. Thepeople increased their clapping and Abu Bakr turned round and saw theMessenger of Allah may Allah bless him and grant him peace and theMessenger of Allah may Allah bless him and grant him peace indicatedto him to stay in his place
12. The Messenger of Allah may Allah bless him and grant him peace said Why did I see you all clapping so much If something happens to youin the prayer you should say Subhana llah Glory be to Allah andwhen you say Subhana llah you will be heard
13. Yahya related to me from Malik from Abdullah ibn Abi Bakr ibnHazim from his father that Amr ibn Sulaym az Zuraqi said Abu Humaydas Saidi told me that they asked the Messenger of Allah may Allahbless him and grant him peace how they were to ask for blessings uponhim and he replied that they should say O Allah bless Muhammad andhis wives and his descendants asYou blessed the family of Ibrahim andgive baraka to Muhammad and his wives and his descendants as You gavebaraka to the family of Ibrahim
14. Allahumma salli ala Muhammad wa azwajihi wa alihikama sallaita ala ali Ibrahim wa barakaala Muhammad wa azwajihi waalihi kama baraktaalaali Ibrahim innaka Hamidu m Majid
15. Yahya related to me from Malik from Nafi from Ibn Umar that theMessenger of Allah may Allah bless him and grant him peace used topray two rakas before dhuhr and two rakas after it two rakas aftermaghrib in his house and two rakas after isha
16. Yahya related to me from Malik from Abu z Zinad from al Araj fromAbu Hurayra that the Messenger of Allah may Allah bless him and granthim peace said Do you see the direction I am facing here By Allah neither your concentration nor your ruku is hidden from me
17. Yahya related to me from Malik from Hisham ibn Urwa from hisfather that one of the muhajirun in whom he saw no harm asked Abdullahibn Amr ibn al As Can I pray in a place where camels are watered Abdullah replied No but you can pray in a sheep pen
18. Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab that Said ibn al Musayyab said Which prayer is it when you remain in the sittingposition in every raka Said said It is maghrib when you miss oneraka and that is the sunna in all the prayers
19. Then those that have spent thenight among you ascend and He asks them and He knows best How didyou leave my slaves and they say When we left them they werepraying and when we came to them they were praying
20. Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said that Abdullahibn Masud said to a certain man You are in a time when men ofunderstanding fuqaha are many and Qur an reciters are few when thelimits of behaviour defined in the Qur an are guarded and its lettersare lost when few people ask and many give when they make the prayerlong and the khutba short and put their actions before their desires
21. A time will come upon men when their fuqaha are few but their Qur anreciters are many when the letters of the Qur an are guardedcarefully but its limits are lost when many ask but few give whenthey make the khutba long but the prayer short and put their desiresbefore their actions
22. If it is accepted from him the rest ofhis actions will be considered and if it is not accepted from him none of his actions will be considered
23. Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that if some onepassed by Ata ibn Yasar in the mosque with something to trade hewould call him and ask What is the matter with you What do youwant If the man said that he wished to trade with him he would say You need the market of this world

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