I`m a hanafi follower, now i`m staying in Saudi Arabia, my query is If I pray salatul Witr behind a Salafi or a shafai or a hanbali imam, does my prayer is correct?
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Prayer hanafi
In the name of Allah, We praise
Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none
can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright.
We bear witness that there is no one (no idol, no person, no grave, no prophet, no imam,
no dai, nobody!) worthy of
worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad (saws) is His
slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.
Your Question: according to hanafi fiqh witr is not
as what the shafai`s pray. one of our aalim (hanafi aalim moulana Nawal
Sunan of
Abu-Dawood Hadith 2527 Narrated by Abu
Hurayrah
The Prophet (saws)
said: ‘Striving in the Path of Allah is incumbent on you along with every
ruler, whether he is pious or impious; the prayer is obligatory on you
behind every believer, pious or impious, even if he commits grave sins; the
(funeral) prayer is incumbent upon every Muslim, pious and impious, even if he
commits major sins.
Dear and beloved brother in
Islam, the Messenger of Allah (saws) has commanded and guided the believers to
pray behind any believer who is chosen or appointed as the ‘imam’ to lead the
prayer, regardless of whether he is pious or impious, or even if he commits
major sins. The prayer of the believers
behind any chosen ‘imam’ would be acceptable to Allah Subhanah and they would
receive their full reward for their worship.
Allah
says in Chapter 30 Surah Rum aayat 31-32
"This (Islam) is
the Right and True Faith, but most people do not know. (Be steadfast on this)
turning wholly and sincerely towards Allah Alone, and fear Him, and
establish the Salat, and do not be like the mushriks, who have set up their
separate creeds and divided themselves into sects, each sect rejoicing in
what it has."
Allah says in the
Holy Quran Chapter 23 Surah Mu’minoon verse 52-55:
And you all belong to
one and the same Ummah, and I (Allah) am your Lord; so fear Me Alone! Yet afterwards the people divided
themselves into different sects, and
each sect rejoicing in what it has.
Well, leave them deeply involved in their heedlessness up to an
appointed time. What? Do they think that, by continuing to provide
them with wealth and children, We are solicitous for their welfare? Nay, they do not understand the reality of
the matter!
Allah says in the
Holy Quran Chapter 22 Surah Hajj verse 77-78:
O you who have
believed, do ‘rukooh’ (bow down) and do
‘sajdah’ (prostration), and worship your Lord Allah Alone, and do righteous
deeds: it may be that you attain true success!
Exert your utmost for the cause of Allah, as one should. He has chosen you for His service, and has
not laid on you any hardship in your religion.
Therefore, be steadfast in the
religion of your father Abraham. Allah
had named you ‘muslims’ before this, and has named you (muslims) in this Quran
also, so that the Messenger may be a
witness in regard to you, and you may be
witnesses in regard to the rest of mankind.
Dear and Beloved brother in
Islam, Allah Subhanah has strictly commanded the believers who sincerely fear
Him and the Last Day to not break their united Ummah into sects and
creeds. Accepting the opinion of one
school of thought is one thing, but to break into sects and creeds and
declaring ‘fatwas’ regarding the non-acceptability of prayers and worship of
others is altogether another! One should
refrain from calling or associating himself with man-made creeds, sects, and
names like Shia, Sunni, Hanafi, Shafei, Hanbali, etc.; but the believer who
sincerely loves Allah should be proud to be recognized by the name that Allah
Subhanah has chosen for them: that is, ‘muslims’.
If one trusts, obeys, and
follows the guidance and commands of Allah and His Messenger (saws), one can be assured of never ever being
misled; but if one believes, obeys and
follows any other guidance, other than that of Allah and His Messenger (saws),
one can be assured of being led astray.
Whatever written of Truth and
benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error
is of me alone. Allah Alone Knows Best
and He is the Only Source of Strength.
Your brother and well wisher in Islam,
Burhan
Wister