´Narrated Abu Hurairah:` that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: "O you people! Indeed Allah is Tayyib (good) and he does not accept but what is good. And indeed Allah ordered the believers with what He ordered the Messengers. He (ﷺ) said: 'O you Messengers! Eat of the good things and do righteous deeds. Verily I am well acquainted with what you do (23:51).' And He said: 'O you who believe! Eat from the good things We have provided you (2:172).' He said: "And he mentioned a man: 'Who is undertaking a long journey, whose hair is dishevelled and he is covered with dust. He raises his hands to the heavens and says: "O Lord! O Lord!" Yet his food is from the unlawful, his drink is from the unlawful, his clothing is from the unlawful, and he was nourished by the unlawful. So how can that be accepted?'"
Hadith Referenceسنن ترمذي / كتاب تفسير القرآن عن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم / 2989
1؎: "O Messengers! Eat of the good things and do righteous deeds. Indeed, I am well aware of what you do." (1)
2؎: "O you who believe! Eat of the pure things We have provided for you, and drink." (1)
3؎: It is understood from this that among the many conditions for the acceptance of supplication (du'a), one condition is also that a person's means of livelihood must be lawful (halal); all things related to eating, drinking, wearing, and covering should be obtained through lawful means. Only then can one hope for the acceptance of supplication.
Explanation & Benefits
Shaykh Dr. Abdur Rahman Freywai
Explanation: 1: O Messengers! Eat of the good things and do righteous deeds. Indeed, I am well aware of what you do. (: al-Mu’minun: 51)
2: O you who believe! Eat of the pure things We have provided for you, and drink. (: al-Baqarah: 172)
3: It is understood that among the many conditions for the acceptance of supplication (du'a), one of the conditions is that a person's means of livelihood must be lawful (halal); all things related to eating, drinking, wearing, and covering should be acquired through lawful means. Only then can one hope for the acceptance of supplication.
Source: Sunan al-Tirmidhi – Majlis ‘Ilmi Dar al-Da‘wah, New Delhi Edition, Page: 2989
Abu Sa'id al-Khudri reported: The Apostle of Allah (ﷺ) used to recite in every rak'ah of the first two rak'ahs of the noon prayer about thirty verses and in the last two about fifteen verses or half (of the first rak'ah) and in every rak'ah of the 'Asr prayer of the first two rak'ahs about fifteen verses and in the last two verses half (of the first ones).
Shaykh Maulana Abdul Aziz Alvi
Hadith Commentary:
Benefits and Issues: The recitation (qira’ah) in the Dhuhr prayer is as lengthy as the recitation in the Fajr prayer, and the recitation in the ‘Asr prayer is shorter than that of Dhuhr. As for the narrations in which it is mentioned that the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) would lengthen the first rak‘ah of Dhuhr and the first rak‘ah of Fajr, the reason for this is that in the first rak‘ah, the supplication of opening (du‘a al-istiftah) is recited before the recitation, and due to this, it becomes longer, even though the recitation itself is the same in both.
Source: Tuhfat al-Muslim: Commentary on Sahih Muslim, Page: 1015