سنن ابي داود
Abu Dawud
كتاب الأدبGeneral Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)
باب إِذَا قَامَ مِنْ مَجْلِسٍ ثُمَّ رَجَعَChapter: If a person gets up from his seat then returns.
Hadith 4853
اُردوEn
حَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيل ، حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادٌ ، عَنْ سُهَيْلِ بْنِ أَبِي صَالِحٍ ، قَالَ : كُنْتُ عِنْدَ أَبِي جَالِسًا وَعِنْدَهُ غُلَامٌ فَقَامَ ثُمَّ رَجَعَ ، فَحَدَّثَ أَبِي عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ ، قَالَ : " إِذَا قَامَ الرَّجُلُ مِنْ مَجْلِسٍ ثُمَّ رَجَعَ إِلَيْهِ فَهُوَ أَحَقُّ بِهِ " .
Abu Salih said: I was sitting with my father and there was also a boy with him. He got up and then returned. So my father mentioned a tradition on the authority of Abu Hurairah from the prophet ﷺ saying: If anyone gets up from where he has been sitting and comes back to it, he has most right to it.
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Explanation & Benefits
Shaykh Umar Farooq Saeedi
Benefits and Issues:
This ruling appears to pertain to scholarly and specific gatherings, where people sit in an organized manner with due diligence.
In general assemblies, if someone wishes to leave and return, he should leave some sign at his place.
As is mentioned in the following narration.
This ruling appears to pertain to scholarly and specific gatherings, where people sit in an organized manner with due diligence.
In general assemblies, if someone wishes to leave and return, he should leave some sign at his place.
As is mentioned in the following narration.
Source: Sunan Abu Dawood – Commentary by Shaykh Umar Farooq Saeedi, Page: 4853
Shaykh Maulana Abdul Aziz Alvi
Hadith Commentary: Benefits and Issues: From this hadith, it is understood that if a person is sitting somewhere, then he gets up and leaves for some temporary natural or human need with the intention of returning, and he comes back soon, then he is entitled to his place. He can ask the one sitting in his place to vacate it. It is better in such a situation that he leaves something at his place before going, so that others may know that someone is sitting there. However, it is not correct for a person to finish the Maghrib prayer, leave a tasbih, cloth, or miswak, etc., at his place, and then come at the time of Isha and demand to sit in that place.
Source: Tuhfat al-Muslim: Commentary on Sahih Muslim, Page: 5689
