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سنن ابن ماجه
Ibn Majah
كتاب إقامة الصلاة والسنةEstablishing the Prayer and the Sunnah Regarding Them
بَابُ : مَا جَاءَ فِي الرَّكْعَتَيْنِ بَعْدَ الْوِتْرِ جَالِسًاChapter: What was narrated concerning the two Rak’ah sitting down after Witr
Hadith 1195
اُردوEn
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ ، حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ مَسْعَدَةَ ، حَدَّثَنَا مَيْمُونُ بْنُ مُوسَى الْمَرَئِيُّ ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ ، عَنْ أُمِّهِ ، عَنْ أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ ، أَنّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ : " كَانَ يُصَلِّي بَعْدَ الْوِتْرِ رَكْعَتَيْنِ خَفِيفَتَيْنِ وَهُوَ جَالِسٌ " .
It was narrated from Umm Salamah that the Prophet (ﷺ) used to pray two short Rak’ah after Witr, sitting down.
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Brief Explanation
1؎: And some jurists were not aware of this report, so they prohibited the two units (rak‘ah) of supererogatory (nafl) prayer after witr. And perhaps the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) did this (i.e., refrained from praying after witr) occasionally, because he would mostly perform witr in the last part of the night, as has been mentioned above, and after witr he would not perform any other prayer until the break of dawn, at which point he would perform the sunnah prayers of Fajr.
Explanation & Benefits
Shaykh Dr. Abdur Rahman Freywai
1:
According to Nawawi, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam’s performing two units of prayer after Witr was to demonstrate permissibility.
He did not always do so,
nor could he have done so consistently, as he himself said:
“Make Witr the last of your night prayers (tahajjud),” so how could he himself act contrary to this?
Or, it may be understood that this was something specific to him,
and perhaps this is the reason that the scholars of the Ummah did not adopt this practice.
And Allah knows best.
According to Nawawi, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam’s performing two units of prayer after Witr was to demonstrate permissibility.
He did not always do so,
nor could he have done so consistently, as he himself said:
“Make Witr the last of your night prayers (tahajjud),” so how could he himself act contrary to this?
Or, it may be understood that this was something specific to him,
and perhaps this is the reason that the scholars of the Ummah did not adopt this practice.
And Allah knows best.
Source: Sunan al-Tirmidhi – Majlis ‘Ilmi Dar al-Da‘wah, New Delhi Edition, Page: 471
