سنن ابي داود
Abu Dawud
أبواب قيام الليلPrayer (Abwab Qiyam ul Lail)
باب النُّعَاسِ فِي الصَّلاَةِChapter: Feeling Sleepy During The Prayer.
Hadith 1311
اُردوEn
حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ حَنْبَلٍ ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ ، أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ ، عَنْ هَمَّامِ بْنِ مُنَبِّهٍ ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ، قَالَ : قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ : " إِذَا قَامَ أَحَدُكُمْ مِنَ اللَّيْلِ فَاسْتَعْجَمَ الْقُرْآنُ عَلَى لِسَانِهِ فَلَمْ يَدْرِ مَا يَقُولُ فَلْيَضْطَجِعْ " .
Narrated Abu Hurairah: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ as saying: When one of you gets up by night (to pray), and falters in reciting the Quran (due to sleep), and he does not understand what he utters, he should sleep.
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Explanation & Benefits
Shaykh Umar Farooq Saeedi
1311. Commentary: Benefit: Due to the overpowering of sleep or fatigue caused by continuous prayer and recitation, the tongue may begin to falter. In such a situation, a person should take rest.
Source: Sunan Abu Dawood – Commentary by Shaykh Umar Farooq Saeedi, Page: 1311
Shaykh Maulana Abdul Aziz Alvi
Hadith Commentary:
Vocabulary of the Hadith:
ISTAA'JAMA AL-QUR'AN:
To encounter difficulty or obstruction in recitation, or for the tongue to lack fluency.
Benefits and Issues:
From this hadith, it is understood that in a state of overwhelming sleepiness, one should stop performing prayer; when the sleepiness has passed, then one should perform the prayer. The meaning of overwhelming sleepiness here is that one is no longer aware of the words flowing from one’s tongue—what word has been recited; it is not necessary to know the meaning.
Although it is better that a person at least learns the meanings of the supplications of prayer and the commonly recited surahs, so that humility and submissiveness (khushu' and khudu') are produced within the prayer, and due to attention towards the meanings and objectives, the mind does not wander here and there.
Vocabulary of the Hadith:
ISTAA'JAMA AL-QUR'AN:
To encounter difficulty or obstruction in recitation, or for the tongue to lack fluency.
Benefits and Issues:
From this hadith, it is understood that in a state of overwhelming sleepiness, one should stop performing prayer; when the sleepiness has passed, then one should perform the prayer. The meaning of overwhelming sleepiness here is that one is no longer aware of the words flowing from one’s tongue—what word has been recited; it is not necessary to know the meaning.
Although it is better that a person at least learns the meanings of the supplications of prayer and the commonly recited surahs, so that humility and submissiveness (khushu' and khudu') are produced within the prayer, and due to attention towards the meanings and objectives, the mind does not wander here and there.
Source: Tuhfat al-Muslim: Commentary on Sahih Muslim, Page: 1836
Maulana Ataullah Sajid
Benefit:
The meaning of the Qur'an becoming difficult is that, due to drowsiness, reciting the Qur'an becomes difficult, and because of sleepiness, one is not even able to understand the words one is uttering. In such a case, one should stop the prayer and recitation, and lie down to sleep.
The meaning of the Qur'an becoming difficult is that, due to drowsiness, reciting the Qur'an becomes difficult, and because of sleepiness, one is not even able to understand the words one is uttering. In such a case, one should stop the prayer and recitation, and lie down to sleep.
Source: Commentary on Sunan Ibn Mājah by Mawlānā ‘Atā’ullāh Sājid, Page: 1372
