{"id":1630,"date":"2011-09-21T04:35:03","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T04:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bakkah.net:\/en\/?p=1630"},"modified":"2011-09-21T09:11:58","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T09:11:58","slug":"prayer-interrupted-iqaamah-masjid-sadee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/prayer-interrupted-iqaamah-masjid-sadee.htm","title":{"rendered":"Regarding Prayer Interrupted by the Iqaamah in the Masjid"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the Name of Allaah, the Most Merciful…<\/em><\/p>\n

Shaykh ‘Abdur-Rahmaan ibn Naasir as-Sa’dee<\/a><\/strong> (d.1376), may Allaah have Mercy on him, was asked about the proper application of the authentic hadeeth that means, “Once the prayer is established there is no prayer other than the\u00a0obligatory one.”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

He replied:<\/p>\n

The scholars have mentioned that it is applied to\u00a0initiating a new optional prayer (that has not been started yet) by someone intending to pray with the imaam<\/em>, that it is\u00a0not allowed\u00a0in this case.\u00a0 However, they excluded someone finishing a prayer (already started before the iqaamah<\/em> was called) from this ruling, to combine between it (this hadeeth) and the Statement of Allaah:<\/p>\n

\u0648\u0644\u0627 \u062a\u0628\u0637\u0644\u0648\u0627 \u0623\u0639\u0645\u0627\u0644\u0643\u0645<\/strong><\/span>
\n“And do not render your deeds invalid.”
\n<\/strong><\/span>[Soorah Muhammad<\/em>:33]<\/p>\n

There is a difference between initiating (a new prayer) and finishing (a prayer already started), the latter having an easier ruling.<\/p>\n

Know that there are four or five situations related to this issue (involving people when they hear the iqaamah<\/em>):<\/p>\n

1)<\/strong> If the iqaamah<\/em> is called while someone has not started praying an optional prayer, he must\u00a0not pray an optional prayer<\/strong> in this case.\u00a0 This is the clearest\u00a0violation of the hadeeth.<\/p>\n

2)<\/strong> If the iqaamah<\/em> is called while\u00a0someone has already initiated an optional prayer, and finishing the optional prayer would\u00a0cause\u00a0him to miss\u00a0the\u00a0congregational prayer, or a rak’ah<\/em> of it according to the better of the two positions of the scholars,\u00a0such a person is absolutely required to\u00a0discontinue his optional prayer<\/strong>, since there is no (acceptable) clash between an obligation and a recommendation.\u00a0 And the generality of the obligation of the congregational prayer includes this scenario as well.\u00a0 Having started an optional prayer does not excuse a person from\u00a0the obligation (of joining the congregational prayer).<\/p>\n

3)<\/strong> If\u00a0(the iqaamah<\/em> is called while) someone is praying, and he\u00a0can\u00a0finish\u00a0his prayer\u00a0(all the way) to the salaams<\/em>,\u00a0it is best that he finishes the prayer.\u00a0 This is the clearest scenario that\u00a0is referred to in the words of\u00a0our fellow\u00a0(Hanbalee) scholars who said, “If he has already begun it,\u00a0he\u00a0finishes it\u00a0concisely.”<\/em><\/p>\n

4)<\/strong> If (the iqaamah<\/em> is called while) someone is praying, and he is not sure if he can finish it in time to catch the first rak’ah\u00a0<\/em>or not, the generality of the statements of the (Hanbalee) scholars indicates that it is better to complete it concisely, even if he actually misses the rak’ah<\/em>.\u00a0 Some others in the (Hanbalee) school of Fiqh<\/em> have said that it is better to discontinue in this case, and this is what I believe to be correct, due to the generality of the hadeeth and the permissibility of discontinuing an optional deed.\u00a0 Furthermore, obligations and their benefits are not comparable to optional deeds.\u00a0 A single\u00a0obligation is better than\u00a0many \u00a0optional deeds.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And If this is the case regarding just one rak’ah<\/em> (of obligatory prayer being missed), then missing more would be even more important\u00a0to avoid.<\/p>\n

Source:<\/strong> Al-Fataawee as-Sa’diyyah<\/em> (pp.168-169)<\/p>\n

Translated by: Moosaa\u00a0Richardson<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the Name of Allaah, the Most Merciful… Shaykh ‘Abdur-Rahmaan ibn Naasir as-Sa’dee (d.1376), may Allaah have Mercy on him, was asked about the proper application of the authentic hadeeth that means, “Once the prayer is established there is no … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,86,88,180,59],"tags":[175,179,178],"class_list":["post-1630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiqh-islamic-rulings","category-hadeeth-studies","category-prayer","category-questions-answers","category-translations","tag-as-sadee","tag-congregational-prayer","tag-iqaamah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1632,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions\/1632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}