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الفتح الربانی
Fath al-Rabbani
أبواب الأذ كار الواردة عقب الصلاةChapters on the Remembrances after Prayer
بَابُ مَا يَصْنَعُ مَنْ شَكَّ فِي صَلَاتِهِChapter on What to Do if One Doubts in His Prayer
Hadith 1982
اُردوEn
عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عَوْفٍ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ: أَلَا أُحَدِّثُكُمْ بِحَدِيثٍ سَمِعْتُهُ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِهِ وَسَلَّمَ؟ قَالُوا: بَلَى، قَالَ: فَأَشْهَدُ أَنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ: مَنْ صَلَّى صَلَاةً يَشُكُّ فِي النُّقْصَانِ فَلْيُصَلِّ حَتَّى يَشُكَّ فِي الزِّيَادَةِ))
Sayyiduna Abdur Rahman bin Awf (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Shall I not narrate to you the hadith which I myself heard from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)? They said: Why not. He said: I bear witness that I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) saying: Whoever performs prayer and doubts that it is deficient, he should continue praying until he begins to doubt that it is excessive.
Brief Explanation
Benefits: … This hadith is weak, but its meaning is correct based on the following hadith: It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdur Rahman ibn Awf radi Allahu anhu that the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said: When someone has doubt in prayer and cannot determine whether he has prayed one rak‘ah or two, he should consider it as one; and if he is in doubt whether he has prayed two rak‘ahs or three, he should consider them as three, … … . (Hasan li-ghayrihi, Musnad Ahmad: 1656, Tirmidhi: 398, Ibn Majah: 1209)
