كتاب الصلاة ابن قيم الجوزية

Prayer book by Imam Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah

Introduction to the author

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah (691 - 751 AH = 1292 - 1350 AD)

Muhammad bin Abi Bakr bin Ayoub bin Saad Al-Zar’i Al-Dimashqi, Abu Abdullah, Shams Al-Din:

One of the pillars of Islamic reform, and one of the leading scholars.

Prayer is the second pillar of Islam

The ruling on prayer: Prayer is obligatory according to the Qur’an, Sunnah, and consensus, and is obligatory for every sane adult Muslim. It is not obligatory for someone who is not literate, nor is it obligatory for a young person, nor for an insane person, but children at the age of seven are ordered to perform it, and they are beaten not severely for abandoning it at the age of ten if this leads to encouragement for it, otherwise it is not, and whoever denies it and denies its obligation has apostatized from the religion. Islam, and the legitimacy of prayer has been mentioned in the Qur’an in more than one place, including His saying - the Almighty -: (And they were not commanded except to worship Allah, sincere to Him in religion, being true to Him, and to perform prayer), [4] and His saying - the Most High -: (So establish prayer and pay zakah. Ah),[5] As for the Sunnah of the Prophet, there have been many hadiths indicating the legitimacy of prayer, including the saying of the Messenger of God - may God bless him and grant him peace: (Islam is built on five things: testimony that there is no god but God and that Muhammad is the Messenger of God, and establishing prayer),[6] and the nation unanimously agreed There are five prayers that a Muslim performs per day and night, as they are an individual obligation for every accountable person.[7][8]

In the book of prayer, Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah explained to us a lot about prayer

For example, he spoke in the opinion of scholars about whether the obligatory prayer without the congregation is permissible or not, and whether it is permissible for the obligatory prayer to be performed individually behind the congregation.

Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah also spoke in the Book of Prayer about abandoning prayer, and he brought many prophetic hadiths about our master Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace.

Of which

From the hadith of Abu Saeed Al-Khudri, who said: Ali Ibn Abi Talib, may God be pleased with him, sent a piece of gold to the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, and he divided it among four. A man said, “O Messenger of God, fear God.” He said, “Woe to you. Aren’t you the most deserving of the people of the earth to fear God?” Then the man turned away, and Khalid said. Ibn Al-Walid, O Messenger of God, should I not strike his neck? He said: “No, perhaps he is praying.” Then Khalid said: How many people pray say with their tongues what is not in their hearts? So the Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, said: “I have not been commanded to dig into people’s hearts or rip open their stomachs.” So he made The Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, is prevented from killing him because he is praying, which indicates that whoever does not pray will be killed, and for this reason he said in another hadith, “I forbid killing those who pray.” Abu Dawud No. and Al-Tabarani in Al-Kabir Majma’

Al-Zawa'id, which refers to those who pray, God has not forbidden them from killing them.

Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah described to us in his book “Prayer” how the Messenger of God performed ablution and how he kneeled, prostrated, and prayed.

In the Book of Prayer, Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah spoke about delaying prayer, what are the matters in which it is permissible to delay prayer, and who are those who are not embarrassed.

The Book of Prayer by Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya is a comprehensive book that brings together the hadiths and Qur’anic verses that talk about prayer, and explains these verses with a simple explanation that makes it easy for every reader to understand.

From the book of prayer by Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah

In Sunan Al-Bayhaqi on the authority of Jabir bin Abdullah, he said: The Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, said: “A prayer in which a man does not stand firm in bowing and prostrating is not sufficient.” The Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, forbade the praying person’s prayer and said that it is the prayer of hypocrites.

In Al-Musnad and Al-Sunan from the hadith of Abd al-Rahman bin Shibl, he said: The Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, forbade the crow’s pecking and the crow’s nesting, and the man’s settling in a place in the mosque just as a camel settles. So the hadith included the prohibition in prayer from imitating animals: with the crow in crowing and with the crow’s nesting in its forearms in prostration. The camel is required to settle in a specific place in the mosque, just as a camel settles there.

In another hadith, he forbade turning around like a fox, squatting like a dog, and raising hands like a horse’s tails. These are six animals that it is forbidden to imitate.

As for what he described about Al-Naqqar’s prayer as the prayer of hypocrites, it is narrated in Sahih Muslim on the authority of Alaa bin Abdul Rahman that he entered upon Anas bin Malik in his house in Basra when he left the noon prayer. He said: When we entered upon him, he said: Did you pray the afternoon prayer? We said, “We have only finished the hour of noon.”

He said: They came forward and prayed the afternoon prayer, so we stood up and prayed, and when we left, he said: I heard the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, saying: “That is the prayer of the hypocrites. He sits and watches the sun until when it is between the horns of Satan, he rises and recites it four times, in which God is not mentioned except a little.” Ibn Masoud’s statement was mentioned previously. You have seen us and no one abandons it - meaning the group - except a hypocrite with known hypocrisy. God Almighty said: {Indeed, the hypocrites deceive God, and He deceives them, and when they stand up for prayer, they stand up lazily, showing off to people, and they do not remember God except a little}. These are six characteristics of prayer that are signs of hypocrisy: laziness when standing up for it, showing off to people in performing it, delaying it, reciting it, not mentioning God in it, and staying away from the prayer group.