سنن ابي داود
Abu Dawud
تفرح أبواب ما يقطع الصلاة وما لا تقطعهاPrayer (Tafarah Abwab ma Yaqta Assalah wama La Tqtaha)
باب مَنْ قَالَ لاَ يَقْطَعُ الصَّلاَةَ شَىْءٌChapter: Whoever Said That Nothing Nullifes The Prayer.
Hadith 720
اُردوEn
حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَاحِدِ بْنُ زِيَادٍ ، حَدَّثَنَا مُجَالِدٌ ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْوَدَّاكِ ، قَالَ : مَرَّ شَابٌّ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ بَيْنَ يَدَيْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ وَهُوَ يُصَلِّي فَدَفَعَهُ ، ثُمَّ عَادَ فَدَفَعَهُ ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ ، فَلَمَّا انْصَرَفَ ، قَالَ : إِنَّ الصَّلَاةَ لَا يَقْطَعُهَا شَيْءٌ ، وَلَكِنْ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ : " ادْرَءُوا مَا اسْتَطَعْتُمْ فَإِنَّهُ شَيْطَانٌ " ، قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُد : إِذَا تَنَازَعَ الْخَبَرَانِ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ نُظِرَ إِلَى مَا عَمِلَ بِهِ أَصْحَابُهُ مِنْ بَعْدِهِ .
Abu al-Waddak said: A youth from the Quraish passed in front of Abu Saeed Al-Khudri who was praying. He repulsed him. He returned again. He then repulsed him for the third time. When he finished the prayer, he said: Nothing cuts off prayer; but the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: Repulse as much as you can, for he is just a devil. Abu Dawud said: If two traditions of the Prophet ﷺ conflict, the practice of the Companions after him should be taken into consideration.
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Explanation & Benefits
Shaykh Umar Farooq Saeedi
720. Commentary:
According to Shaykh al-Albani rahimahullah, both of these hadiths are weak. However, according to those who consider them authentic, three things will be excluded from this generality—those things whose passing in front of a person breaks the prayer, and they are: a woman, a donkey, and a black dog. (See Hadith: 702 and its benefit.) That is, due to this hadith, from the generality of Hadiths 719 and 720, the aforementioned three things will be exempted, meaning that if any of these pass in front of a person, the prayer will be invalidated and its repetition will be necessary. However, the passing of anything else will not break the prayer. «والله اعلم»
According to Shaykh al-Albani rahimahullah, both of these hadiths are weak. However, according to those who consider them authentic, three things will be excluded from this generality—those things whose passing in front of a person breaks the prayer, and they are: a woman, a donkey, and a black dog. (See Hadith: 702 and its benefit.) That is, due to this hadith, from the generality of Hadiths 719 and 720, the aforementioned three things will be exempted, meaning that if any of these pass in front of a person, the prayer will be invalidated and its repetition will be necessary. However, the passing of anything else will not break the prayer. «والله اعلم»
Source: Sunan Abu Dawood – Commentary by Shaykh Umar Farooq Saeedi, Page: 720
Shaykh Safi ur-Rahman Mubarakpuri
➊ Lexical Explanation:
«لَا يَقْطَعُ الصَّلَاةَ» does not invalidate his prayer.
«إدْرَءُوا» means to repel, remove, drive away. In its chain of narration, there is a narrator named "Mujalid" about whom there has been discussion, i.e., most of the Imams of al-Jarh wa al-Ta'dil have declared him weak. However, based on other supporting evidences, the mentioned narration reaches the level of hasan, as our esteemed researcher has clarified in the research and verification section.
«لَا يَقْطَعُ الصَّلَاةَ» does not invalidate his prayer.
«إدْرَءُوا» means to repel, remove, drive away. In its chain of narration, there is a narrator named "Mujalid" about whom there has been discussion, i.e., most of the Imams of al-Jarh wa al-Ta'dil have declared him weak. However, based on other supporting evidences, the mentioned narration reaches the level of hasan, as our esteemed researcher has clarified in the research and verification section.
Source: Bulugh al-Maram: Commentary by Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri, Page: 186
