سنن ابي داود
Abu Dawud
كتاب الأطعمةFoods (Kitab Al-Atimah)
باب إِذَا حَضَرَتِ الصَّلاَةُ وَالْعَشَاءُChapter: If the time of Salat comes when supper is ready.
Hadith 3757
اُردوEn
حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ حَنْبَلٍ ، وَمُسَدَّدٌ الْمَعْنَى ، قَالَ أَحْمَدُ ، حَدَّثَنِي يَحْيَى الْقَطَّانُ ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ ، قَالَ : حَدَّثَنِي نَافِعٌ ، عَنْ ابْنِ عُمَرَ ، أَنّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ ، قَالَ : " إِذَا وُضِعَ عَشَاءُ أَحَدِكُمْ وَأُقِيمَتِ الصَّلَاةُ فَلَا يَقُومُ حَتَّى يَفْرُغَ " ، زَادَ مُسَدَّدٌ : وَكَانَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ إِذَا وُضِعَ عَشَاؤُهُ أَوْ حَضَرَ عَشَاؤُهُ لَمْ يَقُمْ حَتَّى يَفْرُغَ ، وَإِنْ سَمِعَ الْإِقَامَةَ ، وَإِنْ سَمِعَ قِرَاءَةَ الْإِمَامِ .
Ibn Umar reported the Prophet ﷺ as sayings: When the evening meal is brought before one of you and the congregational prayer is also ready, he should not get up until he finishes (eating). Musaddad’s version adds: When the evening meal was put before Abdullah bin Umar, or it was brought to him, he did not get up until he finished it, even if he heard call to prayer (just before it), and even if he heard the recitation of the Quran by the leader-in-prayer.
Related hadith on this topic
Explanation & Benefits
Shaykh Umar Farooq Saeedi
Benefits and Issues:
Benefit: Prayer (salah) is an act of worship in which there is intimate discourse with the Lord of Majesty.
Therefore, a person should free himself from his natural needs and perform the prayer with complete concentration.
It is absolutely inappropriate to try to rid oneself of the burden of prayer before reaching the meal.
Similarly, there are the needs of urination and defecation.
It is necessary that a person first relieves himself of these matters, lest his attention remains directed towards food and the like, and he is unable to attain concentration in prayer.
Benefit: Prayer (salah) is an act of worship in which there is intimate discourse with the Lord of Majesty.
Therefore, a person should free himself from his natural needs and perform the prayer with complete concentration.
It is absolutely inappropriate to try to rid oneself of the burden of prayer before reaching the meal.
Similarly, there are the needs of urination and defecation.
It is necessary that a person first relieves himself of these matters, lest his attention remains directed towards food and the like, and he is unable to attain concentration in prayer.
Source: Sunan Abu Dawood – Commentary by Shaykh Umar Farooq Saeedi, Page: 3757
Shaykh Abdul Sattar al-Hammad
Hadith Commentary:
(1)
The aforementioned practice of Abdullah ibn Umar (radi Allahu anhu) was his own personal choice.
According to us, it is better that if a person has eaten enough to be able to perform the prayer with tranquility of heart, then he should turn towards the prayer.
It is not necessary to be completely finished with eating.
The blessed practice of the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) also supports our position.
It is mentioned in the hadith that the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) was once eating the meat of a shoulder when he was called for prayer; he placed the meat aside right there and stood up for the prayer.
(Sahih al-Bukhari, al-Adhan, Hadith: 675) (2)
Imam Nawawi (rahimahullah) states that these ahadith mention the undesirability (karahah) of performing prayer while food is present, because in such a situation, humility and submissiveness (khushu‘ and khudu‘) are lost, which are the true essence of prayer. Thus, for anything besides food that is contrary to submissiveness, the same ruling will apply. However, this is when there is sufficient time.
If time is short, then in every situation, one must observe the sanctity of the prayer time and perform the prayer; in such circumstances, delay is not permissible.
Hafiz Ibn Hajar (rahimahullah) states that when two harms are combined in a matter, the lesser harm should be adopted.
Letting the prayer time lapse is more dangerous than the loss of humility.
It is probably for this reason that even on the battlefield, the prayer of fear (salat al-khawf) is ordered to be performed on time, even though perfect humility is impossible at that time.
(Fath al-Bari: 2/209)
(1)
The aforementioned practice of Abdullah ibn Umar (radi Allahu anhu) was his own personal choice.
According to us, it is better that if a person has eaten enough to be able to perform the prayer with tranquility of heart, then he should turn towards the prayer.
It is not necessary to be completely finished with eating.
The blessed practice of the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) also supports our position.
It is mentioned in the hadith that the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) was once eating the meat of a shoulder when he was called for prayer; he placed the meat aside right there and stood up for the prayer.
(Sahih al-Bukhari, al-Adhan, Hadith: 675) (2)
Imam Nawawi (rahimahullah) states that these ahadith mention the undesirability (karahah) of performing prayer while food is present, because in such a situation, humility and submissiveness (khushu‘ and khudu‘) are lost, which are the true essence of prayer. Thus, for anything besides food that is contrary to submissiveness, the same ruling will apply. However, this is when there is sufficient time.
If time is short, then in every situation, one must observe the sanctity of the prayer time and perform the prayer; in such circumstances, delay is not permissible.
Hafiz Ibn Hajar (rahimahullah) states that when two harms are combined in a matter, the lesser harm should be adopted.
Letting the prayer time lapse is more dangerous than the loss of humility.
It is probably for this reason that even on the battlefield, the prayer of fear (salat al-khawf) is ordered to be performed on time, even though perfect humility is impossible at that time.
(Fath al-Bari: 2/209)
Source: Hidayat al-Qari: Commentary on Sahih Bukhari, Urdu, Page: 673
